Guild Wars 2

ANet is strangling the last bit life out of WvW with these lopsided matches. They are just painful to play in. Stop allowing servers with large populations into matches with servers that have no chance of competing week after week.

BG in Tier 3… seriously? BG not being in T1 for over a month despite being ranked #2 or #3 overall the entire time… fix it. Just kittening fix it already.

In defense of YB, they are linked with two other servers.

Since 5-4-3 scoring has brought server glicko ratings closer together: a good thing
and matchup variance has ended glicko hell: a good thing

Locking servers and linking servers has not evened out server populations: a bad thing

Question for Anet: How is the new skirmish reward system going to persuade players to de-stack certain servers?

Swamurabi.7890:

In defense of YB, they are linked with two other servers.

I am not blaming any individual servers since they don’t choose their links or their tiers. This is clearly a broken system that needs human intervention from ANet until a better system can be worked out. Glicko simply doesn’t work and it is worse with the heavy variance.

Linked Servers can help but only if someone at ANet takes the time to purposefully balance out tiers during the links and manually set the matches each week. I don’t expect perfection but months of complete blow outs in most tiers is murdering the joy in WvW.

Anet depend on the system for their decisions. If the way they log the data is inaccurate so will their decision. The question is how confident are they on the accuracy of the data.

clearly not confident enough the matches have been lopsided since they changed it to 5/4/3

Waiting for this to be removed. Pretty much the only action the WvW Forums will get from Anet lol

YB has been feast or famine ever since linking began. In reality the huge swings are not YB, but their link or lack of link. YB went from T1 to T3/T4. We got linked with FC and went back to T1 (with anet help). We lost all links and went to #12 (along with DK no longer playing). We are linked with FC and rolling T4 where we struggled to do anything a few weeks ago by ourselves. The links just don’t make sense OR last too long IMHO….

Glicko scoring works fine. But when you create a static scoring system, but have a variable that is still a hold over from dynamic scoring, things need adjustments. All they need to do is adjust the threshold for random match-ups to something between 50-75 and not 100. Done. Easy. No brainer. Predicted almost a year ago.

They are obviously putting every resource into the next expansion and LS. So, I’m finished with this game until WvW gets attention.