Now the following is from a person that played PVZ GW2 mostly during 2021-2022 as well as played semi actively but not super actively in 2016-2019, but has kept following the state of the game on the internet since 2021, and I can not let this opportunity go to help this game get new content/old content again (I played the game until I reached the purple rank if I remember correctly in 2021-2022) and quit a month or two (can not remember exactly when) before it got released on steam.
I played (mostly in 2021-2022 and semi actively from 2016-2019 but I will not be mentioning 2016-2019 era of the game, I still sometimes occasionally play, the following will talk about the 2021-202 era of the game on PC) before the EA anti cheat got released on PC and before PVZ GW2 even rereleased on steam, while it was only on Origin (for pc players, I will be talking mostly about PC PVZ GW2 and the state of that), as well as the game not having any content updates for 3 years (At the time I was playing it had only been 3 years since 2019, the last content update the game received), as well as at the time being the least active platform of the game, as well as having a hacker show up in a lobby at least twice a day and make the lobby completely unplayable, you could still always find lobbies of Turf Takeover that were full, as well as that you could always find a town hall lobby that was also full (when the town hall was at least on), and even occasionally (very rare) find a half full/full lobby of Team Vanquish. Even in the possible worst condition the game was in, people still played it.
That was back in 2021-2022. now it is 2024 and it has been even longer since the last content update in 2019 and conditions since then have somehow only improved. A few months after I quit it got released on steam. A game that was 6 years old, that had its last content update 3 years ago. All I can say is that no one could have expected that game with that many amount of problems with it would go on to have almost 5000 active players on day one, on a single platform. Words can not describe how crazy that is.
That was not it, it would always have usually around 1k active players after the first month and it even once had 3.5k active players during November. It had around 2k-3.5k active players not on release day but during November not during summer, not during winter, not even on sale, not during the launch day, but during November with no content updates and with no Dev support, with it being 3 years since the last content update, with hackers, with the game being 6 years old at the time, the game managed to crank 3.5K players (It is difficult for me to describe how insane that is), and that is only counting a single platforms player count, this is not even considering Playstation and Xbox. That player count is more than the current Halo Infinite player count on pc and Halo Infinite costed way more too make.
Imagine only the player count if the game would bring back something like Boss hunts which are beloved or would make it so that it is impossible to hack the game. These are simple things but I must imagine they would improve the player count by A LOT.
Then two weeks ago the game went on sale on steam with 90 percent off and the game reached 9K players on steam. 9K players for a game that has so many problems and all the other things I listed is INSANE. This game has to be one of the best games ever made for it to go through so much and still somehow have thousands of players playing it........................................................... on a single platform. The commercial performance of this game is like a goose that keeps laying golden eggs even after it had been tortured for multiple years and is 30 years old. This is not even talking about how good the game is but I do not think I would need to talk about how good the game is when it keeps getting so many purchases and so many players even after all this time........................... on a single platform. If what I wrote does not say something about how active this game is even after everything it has been through then I do not know what will. Imagine just how active the game would suddenly become if the game started getting the cut content and town hall game modes back (that is all content that would take very little effort to develop fully and or put into the game compared to creating new content). If this game is this alive during a time of no content, imagine what must happen if new content is done or old content is put back into the game.
The commercial performance on Xbox and Playstation has also been incredible. Despite being on console and requiring PSN the game modes Turf Takeover, Super Mix Mode, Town Hall, and Team Vanquish are always with full lobbies on both consoles. After 8 years................
This game has also done incredible on Youtube, the variety/pvz youtuber Wolfy Playz can always get at least 50k views on a new PVZ GW2 video. And there are plenty of semi small youtubers between 1k-50k youtube subscribers that still manage to get a decent amount of views on each PVZ GW2 video. 50k views on a game that got released 8 years ago and on a franchise that is not even popular is pretty good.
Alright what I have written is a lot, I could write a lot more but I feel like I have provided sufficient amount of data/evidence to show why this game should start getting new content again.
Anyway I am crossing my fingers this game will start getting new content again or just start getting back old town hall events.
