Guild Wars 2

Are you stuck on a losing server that losses everything they fought for during night times? Are you tired of seeing your server’s work go up in smoke while you’re sleeping?

Good news! Arenanet provides the solution: You can transfer, entirely for free, to the winning server, so you can join the Player vs Gate train for free rewards too!

This post comes mainly to mock the international english speaking guilds that have been transfering from Desolation to the french server for free wins. I was laughing (or was I?) when I saw a red invader from VS with the tag ‘Gatekeepers of Desolation’. Very funny!

This explains why servers like Desolation have been suffering from a decline in WvW player activity on almost a daily basis, and this issue will continue, because the only thing the wow-generation of MMO gamers care about, is rewards, and preferably easy rewards. To them, this is the solution.

Arenanet needs to stop free transfers before we’re left with one permanently dominant server on each continent. Arenanet also needs to adjust score scaling at off-peak hours, or a lower player cap at off-hours. This is just getting silly…

Funny thing is, if you stay on your losing server, you’ll get moved down a tier where you’ll probably start winning next round.

If you move to the winning server, you’ll get moved up a tier where you’ll probably start losing next round.

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And that’s why server balance is FUBAR.

yeah, cant wait till they start adding costs to server transfers, and all the server hoppers are trapped in a server with 4 hour queues, and WvW is made less snowbally, so one server doesnt dominate, and 2v1ing the winning server becomes possible.

And if ppl would quit worrying about getting the max amt of badges the first couple weeks WvW is in effect so theyre left with no incentive to particpate 2 months from now…

Have a little server pride? Something other than the puss out strategy of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”… Anyway, plenty of ways in which imbalances that severe will eventually be addressed. Whether they end up adding things like rally buffs to the losing"est" server which incentivise and assist those willing to not just give up even when their world is below 5% and helps strengthen a beaten down team that is still willing to make a stand… I am pretty sure even the WvW teams currently on top wouldn’t be averse to such an idea.

Anyhow, point is to those ppl who are jumping ship from their own server because they have some rough times in WvW… yes Desolation rocked every team they went up against until they hit the French. That means that there are many worlds out there that have a good solid foundation. Jumping ship like a wuss will only come back and bite you in thekitten in the end, one way or another.

Whats even worse than the WoW BG horde zergs?

GW2 WvW

This is the cornerstone of ‘endgame reimagined’ – oh, except that dragon event they want me to do every 2 hours or the 1 level 80 zone – so I sure hope they improve it soon. Asking people to change servers to fix the population crap (in the latest AN article) isn’t really a solution in my mind – they’re ignoring the root causes they created and to this day leave ongoing. Game developers make me sigh

Raap.9065:

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This post comes mainly to mock the international english speaking guilds that have been transfering from Desolation to the french server for free wins. I was laughing (or was I?) when I saw a red invader from VS with the tag ‘Gatekeepers of Desolation’. Very funny!
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Not that I doubt some people server jump to winning servers and all that – but seeing as Desolation is actually an area in the lore/game; do you actually know whether Gatekeepers of Desolation were a Desolation server guild or do you just assume because of the name?

Xandax.1753:

Raap.9065:

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This post comes mainly to mock the international english speaking guilds that have been transfering from Desolation to the french server for free wins. I was laughing (or was I?) when I saw a red invader from VS with the tag ‘Gatekeepers of Desolation’. Very funny!
<snip>

Not that I doubt some people server jump to winning servers and all that – but seeing as Desolation is actually an area in the lore/game; do you actually know whether Gatekeepers of Desolation were a Desolation server guild or do you just assume because of the name?

Gatekeepers of Desolation are a pretty big guild on Desolation
Seen them recruit several times in the past week.

Locke.1680:

Xandax.1753:

Raap.9065:

<snip>
This post comes mainly to mock the international english speaking guilds that have been transfering from Desolation to the french server for free wins. I was laughing (or was I?) when I saw a red invader from VS with the tag ‘Gatekeepers of Desolation’. Very funny!
<snip>

Not that I doubt some people server jump to winning servers and all that – but seeing as Desolation is actually an area in the lore/game; do you actually know whether Gatekeepers of Desolation were a Desolation server guild or do you just assume because of the name?

Gatekeepers of Desolation are a pretty big guild on Desolation
Seen them recruit several times in the past week.

Aye, I know for certain this is (was?) a Desolation guild, as I’ve seen them recruit. Obviously I don’t know how many of them, or from other guilds have transfered, since I don’t have acces to such information, but I’ve seen several tags that I was sure I saw on Desolation before, and I believe I also saw a few Shiverpeaks tags on the french side, but can’t 100% verify that.

I really just hope they close free transfers… Or atleast close transfers TO high populated servers, and still allow transfers FROM high populated servers for a while.

Maybe it’s an idea to to add a 24 hour penalty to accounts which just switched server which unables them to participate in WvW.