It is quite hilarious how some people who don’t even play on SFR think they understand the situation. Lucky for you I am a patient man and I’ll break it down to you.
Let’s start with talking about the time before the free server transfers. I got 1 thing to say, our pugs were a dream. They worked together, they took initiative, many were using teamspeak and they listened to commanders. We had good guilds that ran around alone or reinforced with some randoms. We often had 1 guild on an entire borderland, they just appointed a pug commander and the guildies ran with the other commander. So both sides were covered. Queue times were short and raids were fun. Good times.
Now let’s see what happened after we reached #1 status and the free transfers. Many new randoms joined the server, some new guilds too who refused to use our community site or teamspeak. Or who don’t even communicate with other commanders on the map. Queue times exploded to 2-3 hours. We had to call off multiple raids because we couldn’t get enough people from our guild in. And this was with queing 1-2 hours in advance. Our prime time went down from being first to being last. We gained our points during the nights now, when the guilds could get people in. The new randoms (and I am sure not all, just the majority), were bad. They died in a breeze and didn’t listen to commanders. The /m was just disgusting to read. Full with people thinking they were the best and knew it all. Asking them to join teamspeak or join the commander resulted in remarks and laughter. We went down from having 30+ people in teamspeak for the EB map to 3. We just passed the fase of teaching the randoms and getting them to teamspeak and now we see all our efforts dissapear. We had to start all over again with a crowd that seemed impossible to ever be teached.
So yea, you tell me. Do we have to be friendly to people who just joined for the easy bags, the leechers who just wanted to say they play in T1? Who don’t want do put ANY effort at all into the community. No, the guilds are tired and we show it like this. We tell the pugs to sue it themselves. They know it best, than do it your own way. Many guilds already left, many stayed. Some will come back when we dropped or when the situation gets better. And the only reason we still are getting points is because Deso ain’t doing anything. If they pushed we wouldn’t tick higher than 50 points.
SFR has been a very good organized server with tons of WvW orientated guilds. Our backbone always has been the community. We never had many randoms, only in EB. Now it is 90% random. Will a drop to T2 help? I actually do think so yes. I know many server hoppers already left. I think we will get rid of the ‘rotten’ part of the apple like this. And can move forward with the remaining part that actually wants to put an effort in. We have to rebuild our community and that is easier and more fun to do in T2.
I think dropping down a Tier is a good example of how broken SFR is right now. The main community decided to drop and still many randoms are capping things. And don’t listen when we tell them to stop. Look at Deso and how good their guilds/randoms listen. I remember the last time we wanted to drop, Elona wanted too. We won that time in losing because the entire server didn’t even kill sentries or dolyaks. Everyone listened and went for it and we often didn’t even tick for 50 points.
If you compare that with the situation now, than you realize guilds who put 1000s of hours into SFR are mad.
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