Guild Wars 2

So now that most have to get their “news” about their own server on trolly and very mean-spirited (not all, just most) websites that don’t have any moderation at all ( go look up the forums on wvw – net) due to the inception of the “megaserver”, wvw has become, even for a winning server, a wasteland because we can’t recruit where other’s literally buy their guilds.

HoD won’t buy guilds – but FA has and it’s known throughout our map from those on FA who have told us they are still holding out hope for the REST of our guilds and the standing “orders” for gold is high and wrong.

WvW and the megaserver, along with Anet turning a blind eye to the forums and the innate problems of forums outside because the issues won’t be addressed here, have started their march to destroy a server that at its heart has many wonderful and dedicated players.

PvX teams can no longer easily be recruited because we no longer have Lion’s Arch as the central point for all of our server – now any recruitment done in game is subject to “hey do that somewhere else” even if one does it just once a day – and I do it far less than that and still get the “go away” or much worse reaction/acronyns/emotes.

Tried to post the map showing that we have a few camps and no towers or bigger properties..

Megaserver is a failure and a WvW killer.

Yeah Anet doesn’t really pay attention to the PvE community, since they stopped creating all the living stories for WvW its now a barren wasteland. It’s now gotten so bad in WvW that they took every tower keep and camp off the maps.

And with servers like FA buying guilds it is really sad after seeing them gather up a lot of numbers they are very well geared for their tier 1 push. Thanks a lot anet, and more importantly, Thanks Obama

AFAIK, they got free transfers…

HoD’s loss is Overgrowth’s gain

Devilsmack.5736:

Whoa, whoa, whoa! You saying HoD never bought guilds? Really? What did you do> Rent them? If I recall correctly I saw HoD tick 500+ during SEA/OCX during Season 2 and winning every match due to it’s major coverage when during Season 1 you got bashed… You say that the bandwagon server you have become is just because many guilds just “willingly” decided to jump boats?
I find this VERY funny. Prior to Seasons we LOST many guilds (RET, DPS, etc. to name a few) and still we managed to get 2nd place. Even with our huge OCX/SEA population gap.
Honestly, I see A LOT of hypocrisy here.

They got free transfers (a TON of them from my server). They also won season 1 with no losses. Idk if they bought guilds or not though, just saying.

atheria.2837:

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HoD won’t buy guilds – but FA has and it’s known throughout our map from those on FA who have told us they are still holding out hope for the REST of our guilds and the standing “orders” for gold is high and wrong.

Megaserver is a failure and a WvW killer.

Just a note on FA:

We aren’t buying any one. There are guilds that CHOSE to come to FA, and some needed partial help with that.

They want to be on a WvW server…and have fun.

I won’t hold it against them, and neither should you. Especially since they helped you win Season 2. Treat them with some respect…

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I don’t like the megaserver either, its really hard to recruit for WvW, promote our webpage, and our ts3 on /m. It has taken away from server pride to some extent, which has hurt WvW.

whatever the original post was about all i could read was;

You suck you suck, we rool, wah wha wha.

Please consider posting without the attacks ie " Please remove LA from megaserver"

They got free transfers (a TON of them from my server). They also won season 1 with no losses. Idk if they bought guilds or not though, just saying.

No, as far as I know Henge of Denravi did not sink to buying guild - that was other server’s problem but not ours.

Our PvE community stood tall and were the very reason, just like Ft. Aspenwood in the first season, that we had a shadow of a chance of winning.

It wasn’t the guilds who came and went, it was those who love the server as much as they love the game.

I am sorry I had to leave.

all bs aside it does feel like more people are burning out /less are logging in

Server loyalty will be the death of this game.

atheria.2837:

They got free transfers (a TON of them from my server). They also won season 1 with no losses. Idk if they bought guilds or not though, just saying.

No, as far as I know Henge of Denravi did not sink to buying guild – that was other server’s problem but not ours.

Our PvE community stood tall and were the very reason, just like Ft. Aspenwood in the first season, that we had a shadow of a chance of winning.

It wasn’t the guilds who came and went, it was those who love the server as much as they love the game.

I am sorry I had to leave.

Everyone knows Unlimited free transfers were the reason for the S2 win – simple as that.

There’s a very real topic here that should be discussed but, this thread is probably going to get locked because you’ve chosen to accuse another server of actions you have no proof of. GW2wvw isn’t a credible source, not even close.

What has happened to HoD isn’t unique and Anet has yet again received a windfall of paid transfers after the fact. It’s all greatly impacted my game play in a decidedly negative way. I wonder is the dollars coming in reaching their ears more sharply than the complaints on these forums?

I think with this past season, the ham-handedness of the free transfers might have actually cost them some pretty sizable player base in the end. But, I have no real data to back it up. It’s purely anecdotal. I know I’m having less fun when entire guilds have retired and I’m the only person in my guild logging in daily anymore. General feeling around the HoD natives is that the free transfers cost us much more than what a couple shiney weapons are worth.

Deserted WvW isn’t going to keep me around paying Gems for whatever doodad that gets released next. There’s nearly no sense of community left in the game. Just patches of nameless faceless players I’ll probably never see again. If this is the vision of the game going forward, I don’t think it’s going to be on my playlist much longer.

Pretty sure the rest of HoD isn’t going to follow the other guilds to FA. Some will. There will be people that stay on HoD, while some other guilds will not go to FA, because they resent the server falling apart because all those guilds jumped to FA.

They will probably head to T1, or other t2 servers. Maybe some might go to SBI or YB.

I’m shocked the implosion hit HoD as fast as it did. At the beginning of the season, I was thinking they would make it to T2, lose some, then implode. But, the implosion started during the season, after they already won. Their population dropped in WvW, and afterwards, FA was able to get one guild to come, and the rest followed.

I feel sorry for the core of HoD, that helped rebuild it from 23rd, up to 13, before the free transfers wrecked the server.

Gundail.7594:

There’s a very real topic here that should be discussed but, this thread is probably going to get locked because you’ve chosen to accuse another server of actions you have no proof of. GW2wvw isn’t a credible source, not even close.

What has happened to HoD isn’t unique and Anet has yet again received a windfall of paid transfers after the fact. It’s all greatly impacted my game play. In a decidedly negative way. I wonder is the dollars coming in reaches their ears more sharply than the complaints on these forums?

I think with this past season, the ham-handedness of the free transfers might have actually cost them some pretty sizable player base in the end. But, I have no real data to back it up. It’s purely anecdotal. I know I’m having less fun when entire guilds have retired and I’m the only person in my guild logging in daily anymore. General feeling around the HoD natives is that the free transfers cost us much more than what a couple shiney weapons are worth.

Deserted WvW isn’t going to keep me around paying Gems for whatever doodad that gets released next. There’s nearly no sense of community left in the game. Just patches of nameless faceless players I’ll probably never see again. If this is the vision of the game going forward, I don’t think it’s going to be on my playlist much longer.

SBI has been hit with 2 exodus since the game went live, and a lot of us don’t really blame it on Anet. People buy this game, and if they chose to either pay real money to transfer, or farm a crap load of gold to transfer, then isn’t that their right? Why should anet keep players from enjoying the game the way they want to enjoy the game?

In the end, some people always think the grass is greener, but as in real life, they find that the new grass dies just like the old.

Andrew Clear.1750:

Gundail.7594:

There’s a very real topic here that should be discussed but, this thread is probably going to get locked because you’ve chosen to accuse another server of actions you have no proof of. GW2wvw isn’t a credible source, not even close.

What has happened to HoD isn’t unique and Anet has yet again received a windfall of paid transfers after the fact. It’s all greatly impacted my game play. In a decidedly negative way. I wonder is the dollars coming in reaches their ears more sharply than the complaints on these forums?

I think with this past season, the ham-handedness of the free transfers might have actually cost them some pretty sizable player base in the end. But, I have no real data to back it up. It’s purely anecdotal. I know I’m having less fun when entire guilds have retired and I’m the only person in my guild logging in daily anymore. General feeling around the HoD natives is that the free transfers cost us much more than what a couple shiney weapons are worth.

Deserted WvW isn’t going to keep me around paying Gems for whatever doodad that gets released next. There’s nearly no sense of community left in the game. Just patches of nameless faceless players I’ll probably never see again. If this is the vision of the game going forward, I don’t think it’s going to be on my playlist much longer.

SBI has been hit with 2 exodus since the game went live, and a lot of us don’t really blame it on Anet. People buy this game, and if they chose to either pay real money to transfer, or farm a crap load of gold to transfer, then isn’t that their right? Why should anet keep players from enjoying the game the way they want to enjoy the game?

In the end, some people always think the grass is greener, but as in real life, they find that the new grass dies just like the old.

A lot of us do as well.

Gundail.7594:

I wonder is the dollars coming in reaches their ears more sharply than the complaints on these forums?

Of course the dollars matter more. That’s the only reason WvW hasn’t had more attention. Follow the money as they say.

I am not going to transfer because I refuse to give Anet any more money for the lousy job their doing.

I’ll just end up quitting instead.

atheria.2837:

So now that most have to get their “news” about their own server on trolly and very mean-spirited (not all, just most) websites that don’t have any moderation at all ( go look up the forums on wvw – net) due to the inception of the “megaserver”, wvw has become, even for a winning server, a wasteland because we can’t recruit where other’s literally buy their guilds.

HoD won’t buy guilds – but FA has and it’s known throughout our map from those on FA who have told us they are still holding out hope for the REST of our guilds and the standing “orders” for gold is high and wrong.

WvW and the megaserver, along with Anet turning a blind eye to the forums and the innate problems of forums outside because the issues won’t be addressed here, have started their march to destroy a server that at its heart has many wonderful and dedicated players.

PvX teams can no longer easily be recruited because we no longer have Lion’s Arch as the central point for all of our server – now any recruitment done in game is subject to “hey do that somewhere else” even if one does it just once a day – and I do it far less than that and still get the “go away” or much worse reaction/acronyns/emotes.

Tried to post the map showing that we have a few camps and no towers or bigger properties..

Megaserver is a failure and a WvW killer.

HOD4lyfe, last one off the boat gets to goto wood league. Megaserver didn’t kill hod, your leadership did. Wonder where are all those FKB guys that were screaming in lions arch during free transfers to “join the winning server, back to t1” and took every fairweather up and down gold, silver, and bronze work out? I’m pretty sure most of silver is getting a good chuckle and have over under bets on where HOD ends up i tiers atm.

Andrew Clear.1750:

SBI has been hit with 2 exodus since the game went live, and a lot of us don’t really blame it on Anet. People buy this game, and if they chose to either pay real money to transfer, or farm a crap load of gold to transfer, then isn’t that their right? Why should anet keep players from enjoying the game the way they want to enjoy the game?

In the end, some people always think the grass is greener, but as in real life, they find that the new grass dies just like the old.

HoD has seen it’s fair share of transfers while I’m been here as well. I don’t begrudge any Guild for moving servers. Mine has as well in the past.

Even if you disagree with me try, and understand what SBI didn’t have to go through was a massive flood of free transfers directly before a WvW season. I could barely even play for the first 3 weeks of the tournament because of multi hour queues. Anet was wholly responsible for it, despite outcry from the HoD community and every other server who didn’t get a fair shot at silver.

Look, I’m not looking for sympathy. I’d just like to not see it repeated again. It’s not good for the health of the game and it’s sapped a lot of dedicated players will to play. I would imagine Anet is in the business of getting people to play their game not discourage it. They should take at least a passing interest in their player’s experiences.