Guild Wars 2

Stopping the bandwagon effect completely, will be nearly impossible. However, Arena Net, could cut down the impact of the effect with my 2 simple suggestions.

1. Do not allow people to transfer between competing servers, until said competition is over.

2. When people transfer servers, they are not allowed to participate in WvW until the WvW match is reset on Fridays.

In case you are wondering. The Bandwagon Effect in layman’s terms, refers to people doing certain things because other people are doing them, regardless of their own beliefs, which they may ignore or override. People who get generalized under the bandwagon label, have a tendency to be known as followers, not leaders.

I would also make it so transferring to other worlds starts costing gems after 2 months from the first character is created in an account, or after 360 hours of gameplay, what happens first.

Let new players frolic around for two months for free. That should be time enough to find a guild and stay in a world.

Also, they should remove WvW points from the 100% exploration title, so WvW doesn’t get sightseers that won’t do anything for the battle, only WvW players.

All of this together should greatly help solve the WvW problems originated from transfers and non-players.