Guild Wars 2

So Anet invested in these new maps, and everyone avoids them and crams into EBG. What we have here is a company that put resources into a project and refuses to let that investment go to waste.

On the player side, there is rampant dissatisfaction. The player base nearly unanimously would rather have Alpine back and Desert gone, as is the case since HoT release to date. As a result, many players have quit to the point that several previously full servers are now all open. Meanwhile, since players sticking around either hate the new maps or find them too empty to use, they have all crowded to EBG and create server lag (a problem with this game mode that goes farther than maps and more about infrastructure quality). That’s right, those of us left can barely play in slideshow mode half the time, even when roaming away from blobs.

On top of all this, the automatic nature of WvW actions since HoT has diminished the value of individual player participation. Anet literally diminished player percepted importance, viable playing space, and service reliability all at once, all to defend a broken map that was wrongly designed to begin with.

Get a team capable of better extracting requirements and preferences from end users, admit you don’t care about what users think due to ego, or end the mode already so your users that play solely for WvW can log out permanently.