I have played GW2 since Beta. I have completely enjoyed the game up until they started messing around with WvW. I play this game specifically for WvW, the rest of the content is just fluff that I really don’t do. (4.5 level 80 toons, one ranked over 400 with over 54K kills in WvW), so I do (did) enjoy the game. While I realize a lot of people do enjoy it (pve) a lot of die hard WvW players don’t.
First, ArenaNet needs to realize that NO one enjoys being dominated completely by an opposing team let alone by 2 opposing teams. That being said I find it completely crazy that you can not find a way to balance the game either through MAP limits on population for all teams involved, or by controlling what servers play against each other.
Second, Being beat down and facerolled once in a while is actually good, it makes you wonder what you did wrong as a server/team/guild and kitten what can we do differently to change that result. But………..being beat down and face rolled week after week after week will and continue to destroy the game.
Third, As has happened to other MMO games I and others have played and left, being consistently beaten down in a game will indeed cause you to lose players. Its human nature, if you constantly lose, you either quit, or go somewhere where you have numbers, IE: Server transfers. This will (and already has) cause the game to be so far unbalanced for end game content (in regards to WvW) you are most likely going to end up with 4 to 6 Mega servers which will really make the game that much more unstable and unplayable for all players. This is already happening as I know more than one server bought and paid for complete (or selective players of guilds) server transfers, thus leaving the server they left severely depleted and thus DEMORALIZED to the point they are leaving the game. The week before Sept 20th reset my server (its not AR) lost 4 to 6 guilds, they all went to more heavily populated servers either of their own choice or through “Paid” server transfers. Fair? Is this what the developers want and expect to have happen to their game?
Not only does it leave the server undermanned, your first time pve’r that comes to try WvW is totally dominated and crushed they go WTF is this and leave to never come back to WvW. Their main comment is "This is what you guys call fun, or more than likely they turn into “chat trolls” and tell us we all are horrible players for losing so bad. Well that’s just wonderful for server moral. Telling them, but the other team has 75 players and we have 15 to 20 really does no good.
Is this what ArenaNet wants? If so please say so NOW so I can find a game where the developers don’t ruin game play.
Please remember, we paid for a game and thus had a hand in its growth and we should have a say to protect what we originally paid for. As it stands in my opinion (and in others that have LEFT the game) The developers are basically ruining a game by making changes that the game simply can not handle in terms of fairness to all and not just to benefit a “few” mega servers.
Constructive criticism is always welcome and it would be great if anyone working for ArenaNet would respond as all the recent changes are driving players from the game.
More importantly it seems ArenaNet is just not listening. Are you and more importantly do you care?
A not happy owner of GW2, a game that used to be fun to play.
SoS Guild
Anvil Rock since BETA and not gonna leave!!