Quote Originally Posted by Tanis_Ebonhart View Post
Nah, it's an honest question. I see GW2 praised every so often, yet despite being free and supposedly so good... Not a lot play it nowadays.

I'm surprised that they didn't already make a GW3. Would have made a lot of sense since WoW's star is dying (thanks to Blizzard and a dated game that takes forever for basic QoL changes).
"Not a lot play it nowadays" based on what data, if I may ask? There is no official data, but average consensus seems to be that GW2 has half the daily playercount of FFXIV in droughts, and 1/3rd of FFXIV when patch drops. GW2 compared to FFXIV has very steady playerbase, unlike FFXIV's cycles of droughts.

All of that with virtually no marketing and without having "Final Fantasy" in their name. You remember that Sia song for Endwalker? 10/10 CGI trailers? I bet that did cost more than total marketing of GW2 per expansion. Considering all of this, and that GW2 has much more customer friendly business model and is made by much smaller company, I would say that game is doing incredible.

Thinking that MMORPG should just make a sequel is deranged from reality. Why do you think that WoW 2 isn't a thing? FF11 and FF14 are not sequel, they're very different at the core, same as GW1 and GW2. MMORPGs are about long run, nobody wants to lose all of their progress just to switch to sequel which just iterates on prequel. And if you make sequel different, then original players will be against the changes, which is exactly what happened with GW2. Either way, players will be mad.