Guild Wars 2

Expansion is going to bring in ALOT of new players or old players returning to the game. To help funnel the new players to mid/lower tiers can we please have another WvW Season/tourney before expansion. It would re-organize the tiers/servers to appropriate ranking. Even if the WvW tourney is only for 4-5 weeks.

Anet could possible put caps on top 3-6 servers , where new players would be directed to lower server/tiers to balance population. Returning players would still be able to play on their old servers so numbers on those servers would go up. Since WvW is the only thing that is affected by server choice imo this should be done as current wvw rankings/glicko is not indicative of server’s strengths.

Agree wholeheartedly with this suggestion. Rerank the servers based on what the outcome of the tournament(not their Glicko rank), and lock gold to players/transfers til afterwards.

Kaiser.9873:

Agree wholeheartedly with this suggestion. Rerank the servers based on what the outcome of the tournament(not their Glicko rank), and lock gold to players/transfers til afterwards.

it would balance population in top 9-12 servers. imagine going back to population of launch in WvW in top 12 servers and having 12 different servers that can play each other…

Don’t agree. Tournaments created an artificially high WvW population that is not sustainable. That makes any ranking a false predictor of normal performance, worse than the current glicko system.

Servers go full as long as Anet doesn’t raise the cap and that will funnel new players naturally.

I would like to see a new tournament. WvW is dieing in EU because nothing interesting is going on.

Or we could all just transfer to jq like the op and fang did.
Please feel free to get the ball rolling and transfer to a low tier server.

If low tier servers aren’t good enough for you, then why should they be for returning and new players?

Funniest post I have seen in a while on here.

The tournaments are pointless and are terrible for server balance. Every tournament we have had has led to bandwagoning on a select few servers and completely lopsided match-ups.

Yeah, the tournaments are great. In my experience, they bring a lot of people back to the game to participate. The WvW population revitalizes, and the servers seem fuller to me for some time after.

Personally, I think it would be a great thing to do to charge players up before an expansion.

Bring it on! I enjoy the tournaments.

Then HoT would have to come out next christmas or something.

Summer vacation starts is like a month away and doesnt normalize until august or so. Having a WvW season in the middle of summer? Yeah, that’d be fun lol. Notice that all seasons have been spring/fall (with first being very late fall I think), ie its too late for a spring season now. If you think a season in the middle of the summer would bring “balance” you will probably be disappointed.

I like the idea of wvw tournaments…but the transfer thingie ruined and killed tons of servers. If Anet decides to make another tournament..it must be transfer locked.
I still remember gandara server…It was a truly average server..but tons of guilds decided to move there before the tournament.. Result? Gandara won thanks to their new and shining zergs..whereas all the players who were loyal to their native servers got kittened…
I welcome new torunaments but with strict rules..like : ok you change server?^ Perfect you won’ t get your final reward…or you get the reward deserved by your NATIVE server.

Luvpie.8350:

Expansion is going to bring in ALOT of new players or old players returning to the game. To help funnel the new players to mid/lower tiers can we please have another WvW Season/tourney before expansion. It would re-organize the tiers/servers to appropriate ranking. Even if the WvW tourney is only for 4-5 weeks.

But it is sure that they will be set like they are now :P at last for top 8.

Luvpie.8350:

Anet could possible put caps on top 3-6 servers , where new players would be directed to lower server/tiers to balance population. Returning players would still be able to play on their old servers so numbers on those servers would go up. Since WvW is the only thing that is affected by server choice imo this should be done as current wvw rankings/glicko is not indicative of server’s strengths.

Ye, but u miss something, silver – bronze = pve community. Also it isn’t about server’s capacity( for example BT is last 1 with very high status) it is about ppl attitude, they just don’t want to play WvW. There is no sesne in capping top servers with old player’s database. They should set server’s population by WvW activity. For example during 1 week 8k ppl went into WvW so this will set server’s population as high or something. Then they might be able to cap server’s, cos why to send ppl into very high server? What if all of them join WvW at HoT’s release? I know what will happen, over 400 ppl queues. Like it used to be at start of gw2. Getting back to “pve community”, I played at BT, RoS, GH – bronze and silver servers atm – what happened there was hate hate hate from pve players against wvwers and not skilled players. That is the point ppl go into high tiers, cos a lot fo WvW players tehre, no some pvers who know how to verbal abuse only. Ohhh and outside of gold tier there is 18 servers, those 18 include 6 german, 3 french and 9 English speaking servers so it is pretty hard to balance it out here. So if they keep blocking servers with high number of players to balance it out – probably English speaking servers 1. , some international players will be forced to play at german / french servers without any knowlege of those languages.

ps. Sorry for misstakes etc. I’m not native English speaker and I’m after sleepless night.

Quite funny how things differ at different times.

Back during the Tournaments there are always plenty of threads about how Tournaments are the worst thing ever and that they should never ever do them again. And yet now we see threads at least once a week wanting a Tournament.

lordkrall.7241:

Quite funny how things differ at different times.

Back during the Tournaments there are always plenty of threads about how Tournaments are the worst thing ever and that they should never ever do them again. And yet now we see threads at least once a week wanting a Tournament.

Different people want and like different things. Are you sure its the same people you are talking about? You are always using this strawman argument which makes no sense with hundreds of thousands of players.

Jim Hunter.6821:

The tournaments are pointless and are terrible for server balance. Every tournament we have had has led to bandwagoning on a select few servers and completely lopsided match-ups.

Lock transfers a week or two before tournament announcement. Problem solved.

Kaiser.9873:

Jim Hunter.6821:

The tournaments are pointless and are terrible for server balance. Every tournament we have had has led to bandwagoning on a select few servers and completely lopsided match-ups.

Lock transfers a week or two before tournament announcement. Problem solved.

Seems to me like a real bad idea. All that does is punish players who took time off. If a guild, or friends of players transferred, and players come back from a break because they hear there is a tournament, then they cannot move to catch up with their friends.

Just because a player with no factual justification declares tournaments as “terrible” and “pointless”, doesn’t make it true. It simply means they confuse their subjective opinion with objective fact.

pointless season is pointless when you can guess the winner already….