Reasons why vizu wins:
1) Language communities are easier to build.
2) On top of that they have the luck of having some of the most skilled community builders around. I’ll challenge you to beat Troma in this regard. Making pictures/sites/movies just to encourage a server.
3) morning capping.
4) Bandwagon people, i still have friends in the server (lower tires) I joined before, and those lost a lot of people. Almost every server is loosing people. People are bored of wvw. The only server NOT loosing people is vizunah. 3 weeks ago they did not even have half of the people they have now. So basically (they never admit it, but we know it’s true) they got a huge influx of bandwagoning.
5) Pvdoor (just hitting doors, no players), gives to much reward, for the effort, making the vizunah ‘no-sleep-zombies’ more motivated to keep on degrading t3 towers to t1.
6) headstart with t3 towers every day, when other server have to rebuild them (morning pvdooring)
7) The french seem more focussed then any server i’ve ever seen on point. When SFR it was actually fun because vizu didn’t hide in towers. They actualy often did suidice runs just to safe a tower/point for point tick. Now they just sit in towers because pvdooring does all the work for them.
At the same time this give this to enemy servers:
1) Anet made massive mistake, making sfr free to transfer server (medium pop), during that action. All the cheap players transferred there. They ATE the queue of the more skilled guilds. And i must admit, SFR suddenly became less organized and easier to kill. Vizunah can thank Anet for making it easier for them. Many good guilds left.
2) Desolation have very good motivation, but the always ‘just not, just below, still underdog’ feeling, slowly began to demoralize. When the SFR nerf came in (Anet influx of pugs, free transfers), the game totally blown out of the water, giving desolation no chance at all. Influx of leavers. We wanted to drop for 4 weeks. The condition of many guilds was ‘drop or we leave’. We lost them because of the system. Being fed up with vizunah and yet being locked into a prison with vizunah is demoralizing desolation to hell now.
Who’s at fault? Anet for not caring about the most fun part of their game (wvw). Pvdooring not punished enough. Zerging by pressing button one (and i state ONLY), there was confusion counter to it, but now even that is not nerfed.
What’s the conclusion? Anet changed the game that way that Everything vizunah likes is boosted, and everything the opponents like is NERFED. Vizunah will have a free ride for YEARS now, and every server fighting them, will have a nightmare week.
Symptoms that need fixing? Morning pvdooring should NEVER EVER yield as much points as in peak hours. NO WAY. The karma/exp/gold alone is much higher then in peak hour. THAT alone is enough intend. Don’t give it even more intend by overpowering +500 easy point ticks. It’s plain wrong Anet. Play for a weak against vizunah square and you’ll know.
Mindless zerging should be nerfed. Arrow cart stacking should be nerfed (max of 2 withing 3k range).
And stop making people leave the game. Every server but vizunah is a casualty of players leaving game/wvw.
Why they leave?
Wxp update not that good
Profession nerfs that kill builds
Overpowering servers, that in no way can be defeated (demoralizing)
Even worse, the loosing server realizes this, WANTS TO DROP, and can’t.
Because of the crappy glicko system.
Being locked with overpowering enemy slowly demoralizes, and in the end you destroy communities. Desolation lost 15 guilds so far because you locked us in t1 with a too strong enemy.
Resulst, we are weaker, vizunah is stronger, and the system STILL doesn’t allow us to drop. STILL, STILLLLLLLLLLLLL. C’mon anet wake up.
When i have to do work on computer, there’s two realities. There’s the errors I make, and there’s the screen I look at where everything is perfect. If you type errors, and look for them on computer screen, your brain FIXES them for you before you realize them, never seeing them. Anet is suffering from this.
The issues are RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOU. No the Guild Wars Paradise ain’t there yet, it aint perfect yet. The errors are still there begging for you to be fixed in a proper way (tested, unlike confusion nerf).
(at least the mindless pugs).