Guild Wars 2

Save Devonas Rest, it is the worst server out there……. has almost no population, you guest on other servers theres like 200 plus in lions arch alone, on DR your lucky for 10 or 15, no one does World vs World, as you can see by ranking, Devonas Rest is LAST……

Its that bad people are paying all the gold for gems to escape that dead server…. they are the lucky ones, I can afford to go, but my few friends can not……

Anet needs to step up and help out the little servers…

They should really consider either incentivizing players to spread out more evenly or merging some of the less populated servers, although that would be problematic because of WvW.

I would gradly transfer there if the transfer is free. Right now the tranfer fee is just too expensive. Arena should make transfers to struggling server free for a limited time.

They have to merge two low populationed server’s pop to a brand new one.
We have vabbi in eu with the same situation.

Umut, the total number of servers needs to be a multiple of 3, otherwise we get matchups with 1 or 0 opponents. They would have to merge FOUR servers in one.

Devonas Rest is the worst out of all USA servers, it has been dieing slowly for months, and every thing anet releases, doesn’t help us

Server merges is a great idea, or even free transfers to low population servers

Save devonas rest

Doon.2364:

I would gradly transfer there if the transfer is free. Right now the tranfer fee is just too expensive. Arena should make transfers to struggling server free for a limited time.

It’s ~48g to xfter to Devona’s Rest right now. That’s not too expensive, you’re making excuses.

That’s pretty much the same as Gate of Madness. Almost nobody competes in WvW anymore because we get steamrolled every single time we try. Heck, I created the biggest zerg I could come up with, went to WvW, and on the first tower we tried to take, a massive number of enemies came up and basically insta-killed us.

Every single commander we have just idles in LA playing the TP so they can come up with the money to switch servers.

Heck, even the largest guilds on our server decided to switch servers at the same time. They maybe left about 2-3 people behind from their guild, but that’s it.

Speaking of which, I know for a FACT that the server status’s are complete bogus. Gate of Madness says “Full” all the time, yet you would be hard-pressed to find a single person while exploring for 10 hours straight. So, where are the players Anet? They sure aren’t in WvW because all of our towers are always captured. They’re not out exploring obviously. The only players in PvE I can ever find are doing bosses or are in FGS champ farming.

guesting is free.

They need to combine some servers. I guess they don’t do that, because it would sound like their game is not being successful….. :/

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

guesting is free.

Yes! Guesting will totally save the WvWvW game…. Erm wait…

I actually made my first toons on Devona’s Rest.

After leveling to 80 and spending several months on it — someone suggested I try guesting to Tarnished Coast.

Lo and behold on TC there were hundreds of players EVERYWHERE! This was during the southsun event, and I had so much fun playing the events with so many people.

Then, I went back to Devona’s Rest, and it was a ghost town.

A month later when the slot came open I bought the gems to transfer to TC. Goodbye Devona’s Rest

There are at least 10 servers like that OP. This is a huge problem for GW2 and I keep repeating it. I hope they do a “Connected Realm” thing like WoW. I played on two of the dead servers, and recently moved to Blackgate. A completely different experience, so much better.

I saw you guys were at the bottom again

I started on DR. Its all I know. Ive never guested. Just thought it was normal to only see 1 or 2 other players a week…

Started playing and chose Devona’s Rest. Things were going ok actually, there was a lot of people around
But what frustrated me more than see my server down there in the rankings is that people are leaving my guild to go to another servers
I find myself alone almost everywhere excluding Queensdale and LA :/

Wish ANet gave us some more love, the server is dying and I will probably transfer if nothing happens in the next months

I also started on DR, but I’m still there.

Simply transferring servers won’t fix the ultimate problem of there being too many underpopulated servers (I wouldn’t really say any of them are dead or close to it though). What they need to do has already been suggested: a merger between servers with low populations.

Transfering/guesting only offers a short-term, individual solution.

They could offer free transfers to low pop servers. But this must be backed by certain incentives to encourage guilds to transfer as well.

If they could copy exactly the influence and upgrades that would be good. Otherwise some sort of world buff to increase influence earned, or WXP.

where can one see the status of servers? and for that matter, where can one see which server is considered a RP one?

There are no official rp servers. Tarnished Coast was supposed to be the na unofficial rp server. But there has been such a large influx of non-rp players that it doesn’t really feel like it.

I’m in DR. And I pledge loyalty to it to the end. We have capable players in DR still, but we’re still suffering from player attrition, albeit slowly, due to server population and rank.

Xcom.1926:

There are at least 10 servers like that OP. This is a huge problem for GW2 and I keep repeating it. I hope they do a “Connected Realm” thing like WoW. I played on two of the dead servers, and recently moved to Blackgate. A completely different experience, so much better.

It really is a completely different game when you are playing on the top 4 servers. It feels interesting, and you can actually see people in the world. The entire server pop isnt just idling in LA showing off their shiny weapons. it feels like a real mmo on those. Unfortunately that leaves so many servers that maybe aren’t dead, but they are on life support.

Right now NA has 24 servers. There are plenty of easy ways to maintain WvW while doing this. They could postpone wvw for one week, and then merge. The bottom 10 servers would get put into 1 server, and they could continue up like that. Just have it get the average amount of players on a server per day. Then start combining them till they have roughly equal averages, as long as it’s fitting for the 3 way wvw.

Instead of 24 servers, cut it down to 12. Merge around and then we can maybe see other players in the world. I know it’s a huge issue to admit that we need to merge servers, but either that needs to be added or more guest slots per day.

Oxe.6142:

Doon.2364:

I would gradly transfer there if the transfer is free. Right now the tranfer fee is just too expensive. Arena should make transfers to struggling server free for a limited time.

It’s ~48g to xfter to Devona’s Rest right now. That’s not too expensive, you’re making excuses.

48g is expensive. I’m going broke trying to lvl up my crafting and getting the gear I want. Normally my money hovers around 10g.

Man i remember playing against DR a while ago, you guys would stop kaineng(my server) so hard

speaking of that, where is everyone in kaineng? i have taken a long break and got back only to find everyone gone.

Doon.2364:

Oxe.6142:

Doon.2364:

I would gradly transfer there if the transfer is free. Right now the tranfer fee is just too expensive. Arena should make transfers to struggling server free for a limited time.

It’s ~48g to xfter to Devona’s Rest right now. That’s not too expensive, you’re making excuses.

48g is expensive. I’m going broke trying to lvl up my crafting and getting the gear I want. Normally my money hovers around 10g.

COE 1/2/3 is 3g + champ bags + other loot in 45 minutes.

SE p1 is 1g + 5 champ bags every 4 minutes (and then on repeats its 5 bags every 4 min)

AC 1/2/3 is like 4.5g + champ bags + loot every … I dunno, it’s pretty short though.

Gold is pretty easy to make in this game. If dungeons don’t tickle your fancy there’s the frostgorge snooze train.

MrIllusion.5304:

There are no official rp servers. Tarnished Coast was supposed to be the na unofficial rp server. But there has been such a large influx of non-rp players that it doesn’t really feel like it.

It still is and there is plenty of RP and RP guilds. Check out the RP sites dedicated to it.

guildwars2roleplayers.com is the biggest.

So many guilds just pack of & leave DR; seriously the transfer rate is killing us, that when people leave they are guaranteed NOT to come back. If I would have known after a year or a few months DR was going to do this bad- I wouldn’t of joined it in the first place :c
But I’ve been there since Beta so I guess I’ll stick it out & get farmed by larger servers in WvW.
Doing large events such as Teq has been impossible that I just gave up on it & rarely WvW as it is now anyways.
Save DR & the other lowly populated servers please :c

Interesting that DR still says “high” for population if everyone is leaving…then again, we all know the server population indicator has very large, “changing” definitions…couldn’t have a server than appears “dead” in the list now can we – that would look bad. I still don’t understand why SoR/JQ/BG/TC are not “Full” and locked – are there really THAT many inactive accounts that they are comfortable letting more people transfer to them?