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King Latif.6903

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  1. Severs have been horrible for a long time and we need a statement from anet on it now
  2. yup, in gvg and the other guild started crashing
  3. I think it is definitely streamable and no no, i mean that it helps the game to grow. Suppose so but the game is very different to what it was back then.
  4. What's wrong-As we all know in the community guild wars 2 struggles to hold a significant viewership on twitch. This makes the game unappealing to not only the streamers who create the viewership but people like you and me, it makes the game LOOK dead, it makes the game LOOK like its struggling, it makes the game LOOK irrelevant. Blatantly this isn't true-https://gyazo.com/f61b7964a935e44071f0fdd3e1761917 (seems to have stabilized and even gone up since late last year, 7 years into the games lifespan these are not bad figures). Why?- Very clearly and obviously to bring more players into game and increase the engagement and express the fact that there is a real community who love this game loyally and has done for such a long time, the franchise of Guild Wars. But, however this goes deeper- being a streamer and wanting to make a career out of it (which many try to do) is realistically impossible with Guild Wars 2. Imagine being a twitch streamer from the outside and looking into this interesting game...streaming it and losing a large sum of viewership to gain no where near the same amount of support. Not only would it be discouraging but detrimental to your lively hood and career. EVEN IF you enjoyed the game you wouldn't be able to stream consistently (granted this is a certain proportion and not 100% of streamers). A key example off this right now would be "immortal" on twitch who just recently came back to the game after 7 years(he himself doesn't even know the reason he left), watching his stream further pushed me to make this post. He spoke about how he was given great support when he played Albion and specifically spoke about how he wished to play this great game and give it a chance but he had endorsements and sponsorship which he has to hold up to, to keep growing as a streamer-https://clips.twitch.tv/ScrumptiousEnthusiasticShingleWoofer. What made this more sad for me personally was the fact he yearned the create a community in a game and not to just leech. At the end of the day i'm trying to highlight how this is a cycle. "The multiplier effect"-more viewers means more streamers which in turn means more people find streamers they enjoy and push guild wars 2 higher on twitch and ,therefore, increase its engagement from the gaming community and in turn benefiting arena net and the franchise. How?- When it comes to the how its quite complicated as there are many ways to artificially and momentarily increase the viewership but to maintain the twitch engagement is a lot harder, regardless- here are my suggestions. Teapot being a big streamer of guild wars 2 pulls a respectable amount of views when the new raids launch, also running tournaments which gain huge traction and tend to be the times where the game hits its highest views on twitch. Of course i'm hinting at anet hosting and supporting these tournaments with gems and even posting a little message on their website or twitter etc. Yes, not massive but think about the infinitesimal effort needed to just show appreciation, it increases interest in the raids and what I would class as some of guild wars 2's best pve content. Host the mAT's... PLEASEEE!!!!!!! These automated tournaments can actually be hype and spike viewership. People are already interested and this is true as jawgeous, sindrener and teapot (as examples) all participate in these and their viewership increases by a significant amount. It isn't a lot in the big picture but if anet hosts or trys to cast these AT's along with jaw it again peaks interest into a game mode that is in fact one of guild wars 2's best features (in my opinion). PvP relies on a population to survive and thrive, in some sense its "the more the merrier". However, events are great but do not guarantee sustained viewership. Some thing that always spoken about are drops, drops are great and a plethora of other games use them in order to increase the viewership. Notably- elder scrolls online has used this and has seen a positive impact along with their new expansion "Elsweyr". This has two sides just as every other argument and some thing i want to highlight would be the type of engagement drops promote and encourage-afking and leaving as soon as your rewarded. When?- Now, by this point if your still reading you'll probably be thinking well... its too late and anet don't care about this sort of stuff. I disagree. I'm sure most of you know about rainbow six siege, it gained it main stream popularity 2 years after it launched and of course its a completely different genre and scenario but it shows the ability to revive games. But, this needs to happen as soon as possible and as much as possible, especially with the new raid coming up there are going to be many people who will stream and anet could even help do giveaways of gems etc. Overall- With twitch's growth(https://gyazo.com/6746b50f7ebb07fbab7e46ed610291b9) and gamers seeming to make their decision to try games out based on their "popularity" anet should think about grasping this great marketing tool and trying to push their competitive aspects of their game which are arguably pretty good. TLDR: Anet should basically help out streamers and focus on twitch as its quite prominent to the engagement off the game. My personal thoughts- To be honest this is on the community as much as it is on arena net and their questionable decisions and marketing ideas and marketing direction. It also lies on whether anet has another game under the covers and how long they want to go with guild wars 2... if it even matters or this whole post being completely futile and ridiculous . Some thing that would WITHOUT FAIL increase engagement over the board for this game would be a "re launch" and anet overhauling some of the detrimental problems that have plagued this game since it launched back in 2012. (I pretty much expect this to be forgotten and even tried before but I hope that some people even take the time to read it as ive been thinking its pointless but still bothered to do it).
  5. Man, this brings happiness , thanks for not forgetting WvW ^^
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