Guild Wars 2

Came across this on Massively http://massivelyop.com/2015/11/26/guild-wars-2-hints-at-wvw-overhaul/

Added at the bottom of the article:

As Massively OP commenter Dystopiq has pointed out, Johanson’s comments come just as ArenaNet’s WvW design lead, Devon Carter, departs the studio. “It’s generally the case that there will be no comments about internal stuff like this,” Carter wrote on Reddit. “For a variety of reasons, but, that’s just the reality of things. WvW will continue to be an important part of the game.”

Reddit post by Devon carter on leaving ArenaNet
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3u58xc/devon_carver_wvw_design_lead_is_no_longer_with/cxc2l0h

I left ArenaNet because I had an opportunity I couldn’t turn down. The part of me that enjoys candor and openness in games would love to do an AMA, but not only would that likely be disrespectful to ArenaNet, a place that I owe a great deal, and the people that continue to work there, but it would also not be particularly illustrative, I suspect.

The reality is that I’ve been wrong enough times about things to know that I can’t really expect my decisions to be infallible and while I’ve certainly disagreed with some decisions made for GW2, I suspect that the number of times I was wrong to disagree outweigh the number of times I was right.

Not sure what to make of this. It sounds like the dev didn’t like the direction ArenaNet was taking with WvW but also disagreed with them more than he should have. Whatever is going on, things don’t look too promising.

WvW is a ghost town. I never see any queues to get into any maps. I see maybe 5 or so people from my server in our borderlands map and I’m lucky if I even run into enemy players from a competing server.

I like the desert borderlands maps but they’re too big actually and feel more like something that should have been used for PvE.

Gathering nodes (synthesizers) are only at specific locations (camps, towers, castles, etc.) instead of being all over the landscape.

On the bright side I can roam around and capture camps and shrines solo with little fear of getting stampeded by a pack of rabid dolyaks large group of players from behind me. It allows me to earn WvW XP at a somewhat slow rate so I can rank up and earn those tokens I can give to the NPC to unlock a random hero challenge in HoT, so I can avoid the nightmare of stupid crap like trying to solo a champion mordrem teragriff accompanied by 3 or so mordrem wolves (I’m surprised I actually lasted 15 seconds). Yeah. Spent maybe a couple hours in Verdant Brink a couple days after HoT launched and I haven’t had any desire to go back to that hellhole.

I’m not expecting much for WvW, at least nothing any time soon. I keep hearing about how it was said they were going to overhaul it. They’ve been working on it for “over a year”.

I’m not usually into WvW but I do like to roam around there on occasion, getting into zerg groups and run around capping stuff (and getting my rear handed to me).

As far as the “overhaul” goes: I’ll believe it when I see it, but I’m sure as hell not getting my hopes up.

Devon says he as the wvw lead hasn’t been working on wvw since March and was told to work on HoT content. It’s most likely as usual anet choice of priorities, turning pve into an archeage level cash cow and continuing to pursue their failed esportsesportsesports dream for spvp.

I see lots of Xenoblade Chronicles in my future, beginning December 4th.

In all seriousness though, WvW looks pretty much done for, unless you pay to transfer to the top tier server that still has an active player base. Or unless Anet somehow merges the servers. Even then, I know many players that hate the new BL maps. But at least we would have a viable amount of players if they merged servers.

Frankly I don’t know if I would play the new BLs even if their were lots of players on the BLs. So many weird choke points and gimmicks.

As noted by the above poster, it’s clear where Anet’s priorities are for now and for the given future. Until they find a way to monetize/gold sink WvW, expect it to stay that way.

Charrbeque.8729:

As far as the “overhaul” goes: I’ll believe it when I see it, but I’m sure as hell not getting my hopes up.

If they’ve been working on it for over a year, that means this new BL is part of the overhaul. Makes you shudder to think what else they have planned.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Charrbeque.8729:

As far as the “overhaul” goes: I’ll believe it when I see it, but I’m sure as hell not getting my hopes up.

If they’ve been working on it for over a year, that means this new BL is part of the overhaul. Makes you shudder to think what else they have planned.

quite frankly its just scary.

I think some people still have not noticed it, but John Corpening is now a game director for WvW. One year ago, he started few discussion threads about population balance and scoring system. If you want to get insight of what might be comming…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Scoring-Discussion
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Solution-to-fix-the-population-imbalance/first

This post is very interesting, he talked about guild alliances and how would it work.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Solution-to-fix-the-population-imbalance/page/10#post4443606

If they are really working on this big overhaul for 1 year+, i dont think they have picked easy way to “fix” population imbalance by just merging servers or making eotm system.
With guild alliance system, server community would still be able to play together, there would be now alliance pride.

Expect nothing. That way you wont get disappointed as hard when the update breaks it again.