Guild Wars 2

ColinJohanson.2394:

Shiren.9532:

Most servers can’t fill four maps, why do we need a fifth?

I’m excited about new terrain and possibly new objectives or gameplay, but populations are too sparse already, this will make that problem worse.

It’s a good question, and one we talked about a lot. Above all else, our main raises behind adding another map (which can overflow and create multiple copies of itself) include:

• On many more populated servers in NA and EU, there are queues, this would allow people to play the game they want at all times.

• We want to do things in the future, this map included, that will help get more people interested in WvW. We need to make sure we’re not just making them sit in a queue when we do that.

• The game is going to be launched in other parts of the world, and on launch in NA/EU we had queues for WvW on just about every world. In some of the largest gaming parts of the world say, China for example which we’re in beta for right now, we’re seeing massive responses from guilds that make NA/EU guilds look tiny. These guilds all want to play WvW on the same world together, this map will help facilitate a better launch in new regions, as well as the much larger guild alliances you find in the east.

Hope that helps a bit! We know for much smaller worlds this may seem like it’s no big deal, since you never deal with queues anyway, but the gameplay and experience should hopefully be fun (and different) such that it may attract new players to WvW. It also opens up opportunities for us to do other types of experiences in WvW across all worlds that may help bolster smaller worlds populations as well.

While adding new content and maps is usually a good thing and I really do appreciate that you listened to your players asking for the new maps, you guys really need to get the WvW population issues under control first and foremost I would think. If nothing is done to spread players out, all this will do is spread a thin force even thinner. If your going to continue on with leagues, this was suggested by Teambattleaxe from the GoM server, I believe it solves so many of the issues, please take the time to watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHcO6Xo8eJ8

With all that said I am one of those people who wanted either Map changes or more maps, I’m just worried about spreading low populations to thin.

I guess anything is better than the queue, but I really don’t like the idea of a pointless map. It seems like a waste of time to make a new map that doesn’t count toward anything.

It would be better to make two maps. One that actually counts toward stuff and then also make the overflow map as well.

What I am seeing described isn’t WvW. It is just a pvp map that takes a lot of people.

nice work on the wvw changes. I question whether sequencing the changes out over a longer horizon would help the current performance situation. specifically, it seems logical that fixing the queue anomolies before motivating more players to enter wvw would have been a better step. In addition, since new achievements draw many more players to wvw, would it have not made sense to make this change until after the first season had played out and the new map was created? The current problem seems to stem from too many incentives to flood wvw, without reasonable safeguards in place.

Were these sequences considered?

timidobserver.7925:

I guess anything is better than the queue, but I really don’t like the idea of a pointless map. It seems like a waste of time to make a new map that doesn’t count toward anything.

It would be better to make two maps. One that actually counts toward stuff and then also make the overflow map as well.

What I am seeing described isn’t WvW. It is just a pvp map that takes a lot of people.

Just jump around in LA then.

timidobserver.7925:

I guess anything is better than the queue, but I really don’t like the idea of a pointless map. It seems like a waste of time to make a new map that doesn’t count toward anything.

It would be better to make two maps. One that actually counts toward stuff and then also make the overflow map as well.

What I am seeing described isn’t WvW. It is just a pvp map that takes a lot of people.

Why anybody would want new map where you need to play for points? New map is about fights and i think that most of players will play in new map whole time.

Before you guys complain read the interview, its not a pointless map, i find it funny that there trying to fix things so everyone can play, and no matter what there is cry babies only concerned with themselves , if your on a low pop server nobodys forcing you to play on the overfow map.

I rather be in a overflow map cracking heads, than siting in LA twiddling my thumbs period.