the lastest reports i've seen GW2 is out performing alot of the newer games in terms of active population. a few games beat it, ff14, and wow of course. but as far as blade and soul, revelation online and black desert, gw2 has more active population. the report was based on dec 2017 stats. Every game you listed is beating GW2 revenue-wise by a lot, so I wouldn't conclude that GW2 has a much bigger playerbase. And no, it's not the new WoW, not even close. GW2 expansions devolved TREMENDOUSLY, to the point where I would call them DLCs and not real expansions. WoW pumps out more endgame content in a random patch than GW2 does in an expansion. GW2 is also dropping the ball when it comes to anything other than open world PvE. The game is regressing a lot these days. Lol if you are looking for dlc go play eso. The expansions gw2 drops are actual expansions. As for the wow updates having more content than gw2 ye i guess the patch that droped the expac in wow had more content idd. Also revelation online LUL Please tell me how GW2 expansions aren't glorified living story chapters. Things living story does: open world maps and story. Things expansions do: open world maps and story. Things missing that should be included (if it's not there on day 1 of the launch it's not part of the expansions, sorry):DungeonsFractalsRaidsPvP contentWvW contentGuild content GW2 expansions lack the most important thing what MMO expansions are supposed to deliver - replayable team content. Some of it was straight up dropped by Anet and will never be revisited again.Oh sorry, which living world update added mounts, especs, handful of stat combinations, a plethora of cosmetics to earn like weapon skins, armor skins, and miniatures? Also Anet has stated before that they do not bundle pvp/wvw/fractal/raid updates with expansions. They release those on a different schedule. As for dungeons that is dead content. People really need to understand that this content is not going to be seeing updates in the foreseeable future. Fractals are the same as dungeons anyways just with more rewards.