Guild Wars 2

Free transfers did nothing to balance servers and make Season 2 interesting.
It ultimately stacked just one or two servers while making others even more empty.

If this is what Arena Net wants, why not just make 6 big WvW Servers so all WvWers can just stack them.

Nick.6972:

If this is what Arena Net wants, why not just make 6 big WvW Servers so all WvWers can just stack them.

Because not everyone wants to play the current Tier 1 / Tier 2 meta. Looking at the recruitment forum, there are still a lot of guilds and players that enjoy the lower tier WvW game play and don’t want to be forced to play the map queue vs map queue play style.

Let’s face it the player base isn’t exactly growing. Close a few servers and redistributing the population would probably do wonders but, just isn’t going to happen for business reasons.

Besides, MEGASERVERS. Solves everything right? Right guys? Right?

If servers didn’t dictate which maps you were fighting on you’d be in business. You could then let players join all maps in the map pool (as opposed to the four maps they are currently “attached” to) and then adjust the total number of maps to match the size of the player base. But of course you would need three big populations for that, not six.

For now though, it is what it is. If you’re not happy with the system, that’s too bad.

Honestly, I see the megaservers as a way for them to “merge” lower tier servers into higher tiers.

They might come out, after season 2, and offer free transfers for people off of lower tier servers, and then close those servers.

Eventually, we will all be in the top 3 to 4 tiers.