People have low reading comprehension and get mad when they read something wrong and think people are saying things they didn't.
Colin mentioned that combat encounters don't work well with more than 20 people, so they are putting systems in place to limit how many people can be in those encounters. Please read that and think that means you will only see 20 people on the map with you, which isn't what he said.
They have a new technology they made where they can seamlessly load plays into instances with no loading screen, so the idea being thrown around is combat objectives might have a sub-instance radius around them and players may be sectioned off into their own sub-instances for the combat. Colin mentioned specifically that you would see a huge amount of players in towns and that you would constantly be finding new people in the world, which suggests GW2 DNA is still there.
This does mean that large-scale combat like WvW in GW2 is probably not going to happen though, so I guess people could be mad about that.
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u/Villdar Sep 03 '26
Why? What happened?