Guild Wars 2

I’m currently one who enjoys wPvP, have since launch, orbs where OP then to large pop. Bloodlust still is now.

No disrespect to Arenanet because I do enjoy this game, but I want to throw a challenge to those making these decisions. IF WvW as it stands right now is so fair, and doesn’t put a majority of the servers at a huge disadvantage; allow us players to transfer for free to the servers of our choosing before the leagues start.

Then we’ll see if the community begging for changes to make things closer take action to start populating lower pop servers or if everyone rushes to top tier.

One free transfer, you have one choice. What do you do?

I stay in my server, and so should everyone else do.

style.6173:

Because unfortunately, most people are fair weather band wagon jumpers. You see a lot more people transferring to higher tier servers than to lower tier servers.

Much respect to anyone to has transferred to a lower tier server.

What is the point of server allegiance? The only allegiance most players should have is to have fun and sometimes that requires a transfer.

style.6173:

Because unfortunately, most people are fair weather band wagon jumpers. You see a lot more people transferring to higher tier servers than to lower tier servers.

Much respect to anyone to has transferred to a lower tier server.

Isn’t that kinda his point? He is challenging Anet to do something that will further imbalance the game based on their decisions, and proving it to them in the process.

I do not believe this will work. Dedicated WvW servers with a population limit might help some, but there is not real way to make things “Fair” in numbers. Ill stay on my low tier servers until I quit playing for one reason or another. If some other guild wants to come join us they are welcome to do so. Do not expect that to happen though.

Yeah I started on FA and have stayed on FA even though my original WvW guild split to somewhere else, then I think they found out the grass isn’t always greener and the guild split.

I do enjoy seeing the 100+ views and no responses though. Just imagine if this happened how ugly and out of control the imbalance would be. Although Anet might make a whole load of money for people wanting to transfer back to where they left from.

lol free server transfers….buy the gem thats what anet wants, with cash not gold.

they aren’t going to give free transfers when people are paying 20 bucks for transfers right now

Straegen.2938:

style.6173:

Because unfortunately, most people are fair weather band wagon jumpers. You see a lot more people transferring to higher tier servers than to lower tier servers.

Much respect to anyone to has transferred to a lower tier server.

What is the point of server allegiance? The only allegiance most players should have is to have fun and sometimes that requires a transfer.

Allegiance gives people a sense of community and belonging. Why do people have allegiance to their hometown sports team? I think it’s very similar.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Allegiance gives people a sense of community and belonging. Why do people have allegiance to their hometown sports team? I think it’s very similar.

So players on sports teams shouldn’t go to other teams even if the play is more fitting and the pay more lucrative?

Stay if that is important to you. Move around if you want to broaden play style experience and enjoy different aspects of WvW play. Allegiance in a video game is a self imposed limiter. I do like seeing a server grow over time, but ultimately I want to sample from the WvW smorgasbord. Getting upset in general (not saying you do) about other players moving is just silly.

This will probably solve all the stacking problem because players can renew their choices of which server to play on before the league happens. – Best done a week before league games start.

I always felt like my server was my favourite sports team so even if there was a free transfer, I would not bother. However, as things are in WvW now, more people would go to a higher ranked server… unless they actually put in a meaningful mechanic that balances the population better

The OP lacks any understanding of one of the purpose of leagues if they are suggesting free transfers. The whole idea is to get people transferring and generate money.

No, we don’t need more people in the T1 servers. We need to focus on recruiting small amounts of high quality that we know of.

They could try free transfers to everywhere but the top tier and then watch how that fails to do anything to help the situation as the bandwagoners continue to pay to transfer into tier 1 whining about imbalance the whole way and maybe finally figure out they have to do something to fix this broken mess of kittens they created. ><

Free transfers were never a good idea in the first place but we got stuck with them when guesting was broken and it set a precedent for lazy behavior on the part of the player-base. Team isn’t winning? Well you shouldn’t have to resort to anything drastic like trying harder, just pick up and move somewhere new. Don’t find what you are looking for there either? Just farm up some more gold or drop some cash in the gem store and you are on your way. Now the darned gem sales for world transfers are written into ANET operating budget and they can’t seem to imagine a world without that extra cash flow.

TBH there hasn’t been an MMO since DAoC that has had any sense of community or server pride and that was only in the beginning years of Dark Ages when players actually needed each other to accomplish stuff because it was hard to make it alone. I don’t have time to return those kinds of MMO’s either but I still long for that sense of belonging and was very hopeful we could recreate a lite version of that here in GW2. Dang difficult without any support structure in the game or forums for community building but whatever, I gave up on that dream last year when I realized paid transfers would be added too late to do any good.