@stukapooka No doubt at all that GW2 is the most popular and for good reasons!
GW is great but as many have said, it feels like an incomplete game and it was a budget title. An excellent game and still fun to jump into, but when you get bad match runs you can't just leave the MP portal and chill in the backyard or play private matches. You can play Ops, but it doesn't adjust for solo and I often join hosts with really bad connections or something with serious lag and get booted. This is the main reason I have over 300 hours but nowhere near as much time as GW2 or BfN.
I've not quit BfN, but I don't play it much after finally grinding to that level cap. GW's cap was a bit of a rush to get the Unicorn Chomper in GW2 as I wasn't that far off, but burned through a lot of challenge stars to get it in time. GW2's cap never felt bad to get to for me, I know some felt it was a grind but my MMO background made it a fun time, I barely used that fish! I ended up using the XP machine in BfN more than I expected, but that was largely from the sudden shut down of new stuff and my dislike of those swarm characters. Still have millions of coins to spend on nothing. I have 900ish hours in BfN, but I spent a lot of time in the free roam regions.
GW2, where I have 2800+ hours in, is still fun. I don't play it as much as my heyday when everything was shiny and new, and mostly focus on getting my quests done every 2 days, but I also make sure to check in every day and mess about a bit. While it's not perfect and I still often login as a plant in the zombie base, it's a rare game that can my attention this long and that speaks volumes. I'm usually the first person in my group to get bored and move on from a game, but I'm the only one left playing GW2 and no plans of stopping.
I'm not surprised that most posts on Reddit and most new videos are focused on GW2. There's just so much to do and even with hackers in PC PvP lobbies, it's the most fun, and the ability to just jump across my backyard and make the other side spawn bosses, heroes, and champions and have some great fights in my own little world is a great thing and we need that GW2 feeling of 'home' back.
