EotM has given us an interesting opportunity to see what it looks like when WvW is completely separated from its community.
It is truly mind-blowing to see how completely EotM has stopped being a competitive game mode. It is 100% karma/xp train now, to the point where people complain that players are “trolling” them if they defend objectives.
The conclusion is simple and powerful: If you remove the community from WvW, the game mode collapses.
As such, it is then important that the WvW Community be encouraged and nurtured. Unfortunately, the most of the recent changes have hurt the community, rather than helped it:
It is time that we turn this around, and start actively supporting and encouraging the WvW Community. I think it would be great if the next WvW CDI focused on this topic. I think there are a lot of great ideas out there to do this, and many of them will not require a large investment in Anet’s part. Even if the CDI does not produce a lot of “tangible” results, it would still be valuable to have this discussion, so it can influence future decision making.
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