Guild Wars 2

Hello there,

For a long time I’m thinking about Mega and WvW servers. Do not you think it should be changed a little bit? In my opinion new players do not understand the current system of servers, and it should be fixed.

1. Let them select the WvW server when they want to select it. Not at the start of the game, when they do not even know what’s WvW. They should select a server at the first entering the WvW.

2. If the servers are only for WvW, then let us select any region, flag or something like that when we login to the game. Same as we can select the language of the game. E.g. If someone is German and will choose the German region/flag, then system puts him on megaserver with other German people, which marked this region/flag. Same with every other nation.

In my opinion this is the most sensible way out.

Just wait. One day they will merge all the WvW servers too and you are randomly put into “green”, “red” or “blue” team each week.

Tom Gore.4035:

Just wait. One day they will merge all the WvW servers too and you are randomly put into “green”, “red” or “blue” team each week.

Yeah. They’ll take away the one last safe haven I have when all I want to do is be around my old server.

He makes an interesting point, many players dont know anything about a server before joining it and might find they dont like it and want to go to another one when they find out it only affects wvw. Since megaservers have essentially removed server identity outside wvw, there is little way for new players know what to pick, or how to pick a server. I can definately understand the benefit of being able to select a server after starting instead of before for those reasons, but practically speaking, I cant see that ever happening.

Yes but then you wouldn’t have to pay all those hefty gems to switch servers.

Anyandrell.6238:

Yes but then you wouldn’t have to pay all those hefty gems to switch servers.

Bingo. One thing new players can do, early on is delete all their characters and this will allow them to transfer to another server for free. Really anyone can do this, its just better for new players, as they havent acquired or leveled as much.

Yeah, I am the leader of a PvX guild and many new players are confused about servers. They pick whichever one sounds nice and expect to only play with people on the same server. So when we talk about WvW and being on different servers, they are surprised that guilds can be cross server. Usually they don’t even know what server they are on. So when our advertisement message says “WvW(FA)” they either have no idea what that means and are joining us because of the other stuff we do or they assume they are on FA because they don’t know PvE is megaserver.

It’s a minor problem having to explain it to new players, but it would be nice if either server selection came later rather than at the beginning or if the game was clear about servers when new players pick them.

Or at the very least offer a one time free transfer to players. When I started over 2 years ago they used to allow 1 free transfer per week, and I had no idea what server to choose as well because at the time I didnt know anything about them or wvw, basically I went by the name lol and population size. But since they changed the parameters for population, every NA server is considered very high even if their wvw population is tiny, and pve population is meaningless.

I suggested the first option too! Not sure what is in the work, we all know the “server” term is pure confusing to new players.