I wanna thank ANet for the WvW Season 1 living story and how they made the server matches… Why? Well, ever since they introduced this, alot of our wvw guilds and players left our server and thus we now face servers which are way too strong for us. Current score 187k vs 85k vs 47k… Guess what, our server has the 47k.
I always played WvW casual and it was often doable to do stuff alone or with a friend, like kill a dolyak / sentry here and capture a camp there… Now, we get overrun. Our zerg (if there is one) stays only on the top half of our map cause it doesnt have the numbers to do stuff on the southern half.
I don’t even bother with the daily wvw stuff anymore since this change, and when i try, i often get ganked by groups of 5+. So wvw is no longer a fun part of the game for me and the living story achievements are unreachable for me.
Thanks again…
Oh well, i bump your topic up beacouse i agree with you, and i really would like that Anet keep reading it hundreds and hundreds times until they finally realize that with thier “brillant” decisions are destroying the fun of a lot of ppl.
Dear Ruben, i understand you so well.
Let me tell You should have got that Anet only care about $$$$$$, and transfers earn LOT of money. Since there is no point for a pve player to transfer they aim and hit directly www players and communities, since the main goal is to stress people to the point they transfer, they do not care of everything else.
Indeed an Underworlder (i assume you got that from my mentioned score) though i don’t think that our server is the only server that had alot of people leaving (though i could be mistaken)…
If only they had removed the reward level from servers finishing position and had only left it to how much people had contributed to the final count, the reason to leave a server would be way less and alot of people might have stayed where they were.
If they added it just to ensure more people buying gems for the server transfer, i feel that the game will head in the wrong direction. Personally i like to think that its a negative effect which they hadnt expected to be so big for a portion of their community.
Hopefully in 6-7 weeks we will be fighting against equal servers again, even if that means we end up at the bottom of the list. I just hope that if that happens, not more people decide to switch server…
Ruben, I cannot agree more with your post. Since the introduction of the wvw season 1 our server has lost a lot of good wvw players and guilds. Now when you even show your face outside the main fortress you get either ganged or when you try to even get a simple achievement such as sentries you get jumped by 3+ players from other servers. That happened to me 3 times in a row in a short period. This way WvW is no longer for me. I will concentrate on PVE and the occassional PvP match. There you get at least some chance on a fair game. Too bad that I have to loose this part of the game this way.
Guess what gold league servers got? QUEUES! And Queues. And of course PVErs (circle runners in ruins), which cause even more queues and are quite difficult to cope with for hardcore WvWers (no offense). We had core guilds leaving because of that and even more unhappy people. Had me worried, though I think it’s slightly going upwards again now (thanks Anet for the PVE living world event now ^^) Greetings from Piken.
Hmmm, I was hoping this was a legit post. I like getting more achievement points for doing WvW. I am vaguely annoyed that my achievement score wasn’t growing as much as when I was a PvE carebear. I’ve gotten a ton more AP since seasons started.
I also like having more noobs to kill in WvW. Thank you PvE achievement hunters for all the loot.
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Same here, seems like this thread is more of the same old QQ about server transfers. Thats just the way it works. People want to win, its not anets fault people are going to transfer servers to win. Besides, server transfers keep the wvw community from getting stagnant. Its a good thing.
@ OP: It is unfortunate that you’re at the bottom of silver league. But this is a competition, some one has to lose. If you’re really that upset over it then you should have transfered.
Anet didnt screw your server. The hardcore wvw guilds that transfered because they wanted to win screwed your server.
, i bump your topic up becouse i agree with you to rubien . its just a shame .. As for charging 500 gems to transfer it says it all ?it all about money money..
I agree. If they had just put these achievements in the WvW tab instead of the Living World tab, then we wouldn’t get PVE casuals jumping into the ques and messing things up for WvWers.
We also wouldn’t get these same people coming to the forums to complain about a game mode they don’t play and that it’s not balanced for them and their grubby achievement grabbing hands.
Fortunately, for those that REALLY care about WvW, there is an option! You can transfer to a server that is serious about WvW and you can stop whining about your PvE server doing poorly!
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Honestly the transfer fees aren’t even that bad on most servers. If you like to WvW, pick a competitive silver league server that isn’t number one and isn’t last place. That way, you can get competitive fights and not a very long queue. Join us on Yak’s! We just need a bit more coverage and we’ll be able to give the top Silver leaguers a run for their money.
Same here, seems like this thread is more of the same old QQ about server transfers. Thats just the way it works. People want to win, its not anets fault people are going to transfer servers to win. Besides, server transfers keep the wvw community from getting stagnant. Its a good thing.
@ OP: It is unfortunate that you’re at the bottom of silver league. But this is a competition, some one has to lose. If you’re really that upset over it then you should have transfered.
Anet didnt screw your server. The hardcore wvw guilds that transfered because they wanted to win screwed your server.
Anet lowered the prices for transfers before the season started, they were looking for some extra cash. Anet must have forseen how this would tear servers apart. Yes people want to win, and when you have people wanting to win and them being able to change teams, you can massive balance issues. Underworld is in a horrible state atm and I feel really bad for them. You may look at like people just want to win, but what happens when everybody transfers to the winning servers? cough NA t1 cough Any fight with them and another server lower ranked is a complete blow out, how is that fun for anybody?
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Honestly the transfer fees aren’t even that bad on most servers. If you like to WvW, pick a competitive silver league server that isn’t number one and isn’t last place. That way, you can get competitive fights and not a very long queue. Join us on Yak’s! We just need a bit more coverage and we’ll be able to give the top Silver leaguers a run for their money.
This is the exact thing i came here to say!
Except the part about Yak’s – you guys can suck a fat one. Come to Crystal Desert!! LOL
I am presuming the original poster is from Dragon Brand. There is a reason all the wvw guilds left Dragon Brand… The Dragon Brand original community is a bunch procrastinators who spent every command meeting giving every topic a few minutes then passing it off to be further discussed at the next week meeting. Nothing ever got done. That’s why they all left.
A lot of the WvW guilds recruited hard and did their best to raise the server up. It was a failed effort due to the core community. The pugs had no discipline and refused to stack. We tried very hard to get people into team speak and hold their hand. Only a very few commanders became abusive after the complete and utter lack of discipline.
When I was on DB I would pin up all the time and try to help the server. I quit pinning up because of how frustrating it was to run without my guild.
You had dreams of making it into Teir 1. The server had the numbers. It just did not have the support from the community. Teir 5 server that got powered up into Teir 2 by a few hard charging guilds.
Servers are where they are because of their community. If you are not happy with your server, move to one that has the community that fits you. If you don’t believe me look at #beastgate’s server history. Came from the bottom now at the top. All because the community isn’t messing around when it comes to wvw.
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