Guild Wars 2

I think i speak for many people when I say now is a good time for some server merge.

While some people might find themself in a high populated server many people persume the game is more or less dead and that is not because there aren’t many people playing this game simultanusly it’s because they are split between servers.
Even when it says highly populated it’s actualy empty even in WvWvW even in peak time hours. it got to a situation where the biggest zerg of my server in WvWvW consists of 8 people in some server and the server ain’t the lowest score.
and in most zones it’s just dead i just came across trenquatl today when there was no one to kill him with.

That is not a problem of my server cause this allready happend to me in another server and I hopped into this one and now it happens here as well.

I may have to agree. FA looks like it is on life support in the Mid-Range areas. And it is spreading.

Agreed. I suggested this several times in different threads. At a whooping 51 servers (or worlds not sure if there is a difference), and the map being so large, the playerbase would be spread too thin. this is the first mmorg i played with so many servers. One of the main points of an mmorpg (for me at least) is running into other players. I can be out soloing for hours without running into a single player on many of the maps. this is one of the main reasons mmorpg use few servers, some even use one single server (although that is impossible for this game).

Lets assume that 1,000,000 players are always active at the same time, you split them between the 51 servers and you end up with 20,000 roughly per server. Considering how large the entire map is, and the fact that Spvp and W3 have maps of their own, the population is split up even further. I understand that several servers are needed for the sake of W3 but why over 50? I’m far from the most tech savvy guy so if there is a reason for this then i would like someone to explain it to me, until then i will always be in agreement with threads like this.

I think it is technically impossible to merge more people into the same server. Most of the servers are at High right now.

Instead merging servers I would rather suggest giving people credit for traveling through the world and doing different events. Because right now most of the people are just doing dungeons or farming single events over and over again.

In order not to screw up WvW they would have merge 3 servers into 3 other servers or 4 servers into 1 server. They can’t do one at a time.

In the meantime there is a good reason ANet gives you free server transfers, namely the ability to easily move from server to server in order to not be trapped on a low pop-server. Although I guess what you’re looking for is the ability to move entire guilds and/or all your friends and trying to convince everyone individually is probably just too much works.

i would sugest letting NA and EU servers compete with one another so we have one global ranking

Sniku.6837:

i would sugest letting NA and EU servers compete with one another so we have one global ranking

That’s also probably just not possible.

HiddenNick.7206:

Sniku.6837:

i would sugest letting NA and EU servers compete with one another so we have one global ranking

That’s also probably just not possible.

and why not?

I think the basis of this idea has potential; it just needs a little more work to make it more applicable. We’re not saying all the servers have to merge, but maybe 3 of the least populated ones could be? that’s an idea.

another idea could be to expand the population allowance on existing high/full worlds where the active playerbase isn’t very high.

I think a really good thing to do before merging servers is to do away with free transfers so people stop ping-ponging all over the place: Even the one-week cooldown isn’t enough to dissuade shard farmers from moving about every week. We can’t really have a good idea on what really needs merging until the populations counts are consistent.

Yes, we still really need to do something, because my guild members are already complaining about wanting to change servers since the population seems so low during the holidays. I don’t want to transfer servers again, I already did this for a guild once before. I’d like us to keep our influence perks. I don’t know how long I will be able to keep the guild on this server, they want an answer soon about where we should move.

I’m tired of bailing home worlds. I don’t like it, and I don’t like how easy it is for people to choose that as the immediate, easy answer when it’s obviously not the best longterm solution.