Megaservers
Please, please, PLEASE give us a way to see how many shards each map has and a way to try for the shard of our choice, like the way the District system is in Guild Wars 1. It would be so useful to be able to chose which shard rather than the game randomly placing us into shards.
ANet may give it to you.
Just go with a District system like in gw1, if the population rises to a certain threshold, new districts will automatically be added that players can choose to go to.
This, so much this! When a large guild gets split over three instances when doing a guild mission race, its proof the system needs an overhaul. then the GM gets started and a popup comes that says someone started it in another instance even though the person who started it was in the one I am in…. just let us choose – all go to D1/D2/D3 etc
There is only damage because players assume something, not because Anet doesn’t act.
Not communicating an awareness of the issue early on, is the problem.
This leads to frustration, anger and gives the (ever growing) impression that the dev’s either don’t care or are incompetent.
I don’t think communicating an awareness of this issue early on would have prevented ANY of those things. If anything, there would still be those things AND some other assumed expectation for a fix in some likely highly unreasonable timeline.
I suspect we didn’t hear about it until now because they didn’t have any fixes to deal with it until now, so I would say this communication from Anet dev team on this issue is quite timely.
(edited by Obtena.7952)