Guild Wars 2

I really get where you’re coming from OP. It is pretty frustrating that your personal WvW reward is tied so closely to serendipity, but then so much of GW2 is reward by participation as opposed to reward by effort and/or displays of skill, so it’s rather fitting really. If you really want to ensure optimal WvW rewards then you should transfer to a server with a large WvW contingent, otherwise just enjoy WvW as you always have and think of the season rewards as a convenient bonus to your usual activities.

It’s a finisher.

Carrot Hunters will be the first people to the forums about how bad the rewards are, and will fail to realize it’s because they caused their sever to do poorly.

In my opinion, Anet should announce with more details the rewards for 1/2/3 place so that people can have an idea and maybe participate more enthusiastically in WvW (since anyway now almost everywhere is WXP fest/train attracting players) and not just get in there until they get the meta achievement.

Naw, I think it should remain a surprise. If it’s an epic reward they’ll have phenomenal turnout for season two —- including, I’d wager, guilds heading to one or two lower tier servers for a dark horse winner, etc…

2 greens and a yak finisher doesn’t sound like something worth getting worked up about. Certainly not worth spending ingame or rl money on transferring, although it would be interesting to see how many people did.

EFWinters.5421:

lordkrall.7241:

Well, what would be the point of a competition if there were no rewards for winning?

Should they remove the price for winning NHL as well, since not all teams are equal?

If, in the NHL, certain teams could field 12 players while others could only field 6, I’m pretty sure that nobody would watch it because there’s no competition in the first place.

Coincidentally that’s exactly what is happening with WvW leagues at the moment.

I love this analogy and not in an Ironic way either. No I love it b/c I don’t have a TV anymore and I miss Hockey with it’s crazy “Too many men on the ice”, “roughing the goalie”, and “2-line pass” type rules. The rink has atleast 4 zones too so there’s lots of room for 2-on-1’s but in none of those zones is 1 team allowed to just ball their defensemen up with their forwards and create a human wrecking ball that just slams through the goalie & then into the net with the puck in-tow. Yet that’s exactly the tactic that all 3 of the Season-winners this year will be employing because they get same amount of points doing that against an empty-net that they’d get for doing it against 6 other guys forming a human wall.

WvW used to be so good until Anet started trying to fix it. Now it is so kittened it isn’t even funny. I have lost all faith in their ability to make a great fun and interesting open world PvP environment. The idea of leagues was good, how they went about it is completely kittened and just creates a great server imbalance. Great job on screwing the pooch.

OP – I like your name it suits you. How do you know that you are putting in the same amount of effort as others. How much recruitment have you done? how big is the guild that you run(I assume you are a GM as you are putting in as much effort as ppl who are)? how many hours do you play per week? do you use this time effectively?

My point is there is a lot more effort put in behind the scenes and turning up and playing for a few hours may not take the same effort.

Remember in life all things are not equal. I have a decent paying job. I work 40 hours a week and get rewarded substantially more than a lot of ppl who work the same amount of hours. I would say that ppl who do really hard graft probably have to put in a lot more effort than I do for less rewards.

Also computer games are mainly intended to be leisure/fun activities. Why do you feel the need to be rewarded for playing a game. This is another issue in itself. Why do players feel the need to get rewards for paying a game. These rewards will be inconsequential really. A finisher.. wow. holy moley I’m missing out on a golden Yak I may as well just slash up and end it all now.

What exactly do you expect to be in the chest??? T1 winners going to each get a legendary weapon for everyone that participated in the season win? I’m thinking not…. Not even an Ascended Weapon to everyone, not going to happen.

I’m kind of expecting Season 1 final winners to get an ascended back piece, since WvW doesn’t have it in yet and it’s been asked for a long time now.

Will I get one? Not likely, my server can hope for second place at best. Will I congratulate those who do get one? You betchya.

Jayne.9251:

I’m kind of expecting Season 1 final winners to get an ascended back piece, since WvW doesn’t have it in yet and it’s been asked for a long time now.

It will be REAL interesting to see how that all gets divided out… truly. There could be much wailing and gnashing of teeth here on this forum if you’re realm won, you participated at some level but didn’t receive you’re “just” reward.

And if Anet say’s it is guaranteed for those that participate to X degree, can you image in the Que waits then?

Eh, at the end of the day it’s really just a bunch of pixels right? And if your server didn’t win, it’s something to shoot for next league. And if you bandwagoned up, there’s all those queues — without completing the WvW meta and getting the key, you don’t get the chest at the end

Indeed, but boy, some folks take those pixels very seriously.

Cynz.9437:

take a lead and build a community.. there were quite few servers that fell down completely and raised by supporting wvw community

don’t want to do it? transfer then

get real, would olympics be really that fun if everyone got gold?

Written by someone openly looking for a new server.

AR has gotten a rough ride, but you need a base of people on your server before you can attract transfers. Get the few WvWrs on your server at least into the same VoiP (TS3, mumble, etc) and build from there. Once you have that core, you have something to work with and something to offer.

AR still leads the SPvP rankings, right? Try to encourage some of those folks to form roaming groups and havoc squads.
They can keep people busy while you and other WvW focused individuals can capture towers and keeps.

I’ve never understood why AR has had such a rough time of it.

Rewards will probably be the finisher and a couple greens.

If they’re too good, it’ll cause guilds to stack to the projected winners causing huge problems (especially in lower tiers — imagine guilds stacking only into projected bronze league winner — that season would be miserable for other bronze leaguers)

Disagree. Can totally see maybe three T1-2 guilds transfer to a lower silver or bronze server, make it a sleeper horse and surprise everyone in next season. Likewise as word spreads about season one rewards, season two will see a resurgence of players trying to boost their server to top spot in the various leagues. It’s a compelling argument as to why a big big shiny reward would have resultant participation. Bandwagon too much and you risk not being able to complete the meta to get the key, etc…

In other words the winner is speculative. I think it favours a greater dispersion of players, something that’s been complained about a lot.