Guild Wars 2

I read the WvW announcements over PAX in the article Massively ran. And I just read ANet’s announcement spelling the leagues out.

Coming from ET—one of the lowest ranked servers—I can’t help but wonder what difference the leagues will make for us?

We’re set up to lose or at best rank in the middle in the league. While I don’t mind never ever winning, because I enjoy the WvW in its own right, it sucks when nobody is around.

Since it’s obvious we will not be a contender and because ANet is upping the rewards for WvW winners, I foresee an increase in transfers out and an exacerbation to the stacking problems.

Am I wrong? What am I not getting about these changes? I just can’t see the benefit for low ranked servers. Losers will keep on losing and the winners will keep on winning, to me it looks like all they’ve done is mix up the details but did nothing to the weak foundation WvW is built upon.

You can fight against #13-15 ranked servers for no other reason then the developers thinking you want to test out your skill and then blame you for losing.

It’s funny, because there’s like no reasoning behind it. Maybe they’re trying to make all the smaller servers deserted and pile on top of the league, so there won’t be as many servers to maintain.

In any case, the only thing to get is that the developers have no idea of what they’re doing. The real message they’re sending is “go back to pve”

And as we have here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Final-solution-for-league-and-transfers/2747282

It’s clear. They have no intention of balance or even giving you a fair chance; you’re merely just a punching bag for them to push their new gimmicks so that other people can think it’s legitimate content.

ArchonWing.9480:

You can fight against #13-15 ranked servers for no other reason then the developers thinking you want to test out your skill and then blame you for losing.

It’s funny, because there’s like no reasoning behind it. Maybe they’re trying to make all the smaller servers deserted and pile on top of the league, so there won’t be as many servers to maintain/

In any case, the only thing to get is that the developers have no idea of what they’re doing. The real message they’re sending is “go back to pve”

Hmm more like they’re saying go play a game with better PvE since WvW is the only reason I play GW2.

….After reading that thread, it seems to me that ANet doesn’t understand that WvW and PvE are entwined as one ecosystem. Poor WvW performance leads to transfers leads to situations like ET already has with nobody running temples except maybe once a week, which leads to either more transfers out and some quitting GW2 entirely.

Things get worse for the stacked servers too. There’s WvW queues. More queues for PvE content too. Skill lag is everywhere and gameplay is reduced to a foaming rabid zergfest. Not fun.