Here because quarantine?

[Mortifera.6138]

Hello, I hope this finds you in good health. :)

 

I’m wondering who’s currently active in the game due to quarantine. Will you be around after it’s over? Less active? Do sate my curiousity!

[Daddicus.6128]

For me, there's no difference. I was unemployed before quarantine.

[Psycoprophet.8107]

I left for ff14 during quarantine and most likely won't be returning after until cantha expac, if the elites designs for the classes I enjoy are worth returning for that is.

Also still working fulltime between 3 towns.

[Super Hayes.6890]

I never got quarantined due to my job being "essential." I guess that means I will be gaming the same amount of time after it officially ends.

[Silverlock.9736]

I returned to this after a LONG LONG hiatus from gaming. I am trying to find a game I can enjoy in spurts and casually. I really like what ANET did with GW 1 and I am hoping this can be my game for a while. I just need to find a way to get more involved in the game.

[The Greyhawk.9107]

No, I've been playing this game for almost eight years with generally the same level of activity, Corona-chan has changed little in my life especially my proclivities.

[firedragon.8953]

I came back because of quarantine. I will probably stay after because this game is better than I remember when I stopped playing 5 years ago. But I will probably play less than I am now once I can enjoy the outside world again.

[Antycypator.9874]

No difference for me, still going to office almost every day and shopping sometimes.

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

Here because I enjoy the game. Plain and simple.

[mercury ranique.2170]

For me it is the other way around. I play less due to the shutdown. My wife works from home and my kid has to do school. So they are around me all the time. The laptop is occupied for work and school most of the time. Here school started today again, by my wife still works from home.

[Danikat.8537]

I've been playing GW2 since release (with breaks, but no major ones) and I'll keep playing it after the lockdown is over. I might be playing it a bit less, but because I've finally managed to get hold of a Nintendo Switch and I've got a lot of games to catch up on.

 

A few of my real-life friends have started playing during the lockdown. Some were planning on getting GW2 at some point anyway, others started because of it. I think some of them will keep playing but I'm not sure about all of them.

[Lurana.7506]

I play less during the quarantine. I still need to go to work, still have university classes and I have two bachelor's exams in the next four weeks. So I've got plenty to do and the quarantine makes it more difficult (can't go to the library, ...). So I've got less time. I hope I can play more after my exams.

[Terranova.1708]

I came back because of the quarantine, work and RL stuff stopped me from playing for a while previously and I just didn't get back to it, I saw they had a sale for the two expansions so got those, and rolled a new character, I'm having a good time with it so will stick with it this time even when the whole Covid situation ends.

[synk.6907]

I took a break from GW in mid-February, coincidentally. If anything the work-from-home situation has let me burn through other games enough to get excited to return home.

[Timbersword.9014]

I came back because I was burning out on WoW and decided to pop in to see what costumes might be available now.

 

Yes, I bought some, then started chasing a few local world events. I see the character select screen still has all sorts of lighting issues.

[Donari.5237]

I've been retired for years now, so that's not a factor. However, I am here *less* right now because my Mom had a stroke a few weeks ago. Covid has shut down her CCRC's provision of therapy, rehab, and care, so I've been scrambling to find alternate providers and placements and monitor her care all while unable to physically visit her. I have to answer every phone call instead of filtering out spam.

 

If it weren't for quarantine she might have been found in time to treat the blood clot and be in much better physical shape now. And I might be doing far more game time if I didn't have to be able to pause what I'm doing at any moment.

[Danikat.8537]

> @"Donari.5237" said:

> I've been retired for years now, so that's not a factor. However, I am here *less* right now because my Mom had a stroke a few weeks ago. Covid has shut down her CCRC's provision of therapy, rehab, and care, so I've been scrambling to find alternate providers and placements and monitor her care all while unable to physically visit her. I have to answer every phone call instead of filtering out spam.

>

> If it weren't for quarantine she might have been found in time to treat the blood clot and be in much better physical shape now. And I might be doing far more game time if I didn't have to be able to pause what I'm doing at any moment.

 

I'm so sorry you're having to deal with all that. I can only imagine how stressful it must be. :'(

 

I hope you're able to get your mum the care she needs soon.

[Linthenius.3704]

A mix of that, and just not that many games coming out recently that have really drawn my attention. Not for another month and a half atleast.

[Soital.9482]

I'm a "key worker" and also a newbie to the game through recommendation, soo I'll be around so far regardless of a pandemic or no pandemic !

[Endless Soul.5178]

No, I was always here, even with a full time job (which has now been moved to home).

[Tukaram.8256]

I have been unable to play since christmas eve - when my PC died. I can log in on my laptop, but not play. The quarantine has stopped domestic shipping, so my new PC has been sitting in a warehouse in Manila for 2 months. I hope the domestic travel bans lift soon, so they can deliver it, and I can play again.

[HAsAsIN.6724]

We're in the middlenet now.

 

 

EU crash, monitored even in the outernet.

[KingPuki.1075]

I've been playing a long time, only the last couple of months i lost my interest a bit. Recently i am playing a lot again :) Really nice to see some of my friends have returned too! I always play games pandamic or not, so yes i will be playing after this is all over!

[Teratus.2859]

Not playing atm cause Skritt raided the EU servers.

But generally same level of activity for a good while now.

 

The virus has not impacted my life at all tbh, social distancing is something i've done naturally my whole life just because I prefer to keep people I don't know out of my personal space.. same goes for washing hands too, I don't like my hands being dirty, sticky or especially oily so I wash them quite often, especially when im cooking, cleaning etc.

Ironically im not a germaphobe or anything.. I just don't like the feeling of having gooey or dirty hands.

[Chichimec.9364]

As an old retired guy I was already spending almost all my time at home, much of it playing GW2. So the shutdowns haven't changed my game involvement at all. Early on in the lockdowns when people were first complaining of getting bored, I posted links to GW2 and told people how to find me ingame if they wanted to try it. Got a couple of tentative responses but no one followed through to actually start playing. From my own in-game experience I haven't seen a large surge of newcomers, just a mild increase in the number of newbies asking for help. What I have seen is a general increase in the game population. My tentative conclusion, based on nothing but my own vague observations is that it's not so much a matter of new people coming in as it is already active players having more time to spend ingame.

 

The increased population is nice in open world PVE. Random PUGs are generally available for whatever is going on in any given map, making it easier to get things done. The place where the larger number of active players has made a negative difference to me is in WvW. My preferred play style there is solo roaming, late at night, when I can quietly go about doing dailies and racking up experience and reward track gains. These days though, the WvW population is so high that I have to go further and further to find something to attack. And I'm getting jumped on by other players a lot quicker than I ever have before in the wee hours of the morning.

 

Something I've only noticed since the EU servers went down yesterday is how important GW2 has become in my day to day routine. I'll run around ingame for a while, then watch videos for a bit, back to the game for a while and then back to videos for a bit, wash, rinse, repeat. It's a routine that keeps my days happily filled. Now that GW2 is currently unavailable, there is definitely a void there, an itch I can't scratch. I can only video binge for so long and while I have a library of other games available on Steam, none of them seem particularly appealing atm. I want to get back to Tyria. :(

 

EDIT: Just minutes after I posted this, the EU servers went back online. I've been happily immersed in Tryia again ever since. :)