Guild Wars 2

Liston.9708:

rhapsody.3615:

Phuriok.9307:

Hey Grim, I was googling server populations as i’ve been rebuilding Epic and more and more players have been wanting to transfer to DB to wvw with the guild and yet they can’t because of a “full” server population, but as you stated and as i’ve been very frustrated with… The only relevance to which home server a player belongs to is WvW and yet with the megaserver not displaying home server’s there’s no way for us to target the DB players directly without spamming map chat 24/7. So it seems a bit odd (from a competitive WvW perspective) that we can’t transfer in the players that actually want to represent a server in the only way that you can anymore in contrast to the players that have no idea that they even belong to a server because they just pve with all the others.

So I agree with you Grim, and while I’m spending multiple hours a day building a community (with DB at its center) this is a huge and possibly insurmountable hurdle that is stopping us from a chance at improving our WvW standing.

Perhaps I’ll start doing some map spams that specifically target DB players and try to build a following based on that, but something tells me im going to have a very low return rate with that method. Even if the devs don’t respond, i hope you guys are reading this.

Are you aware that DB recently had an exodus, including Grimaldi…?

More like hostile takeover of hod from what I heard…..

nope, doesn’t really bother me, but the server is still listed as “full” for those that want to transfer, and Grim leaving does not in any way take away from his, or my point.

It seems like many servers are full; when they’re not, while others are full of queues during prime time at least.
Then again it’s hard to measure player population – when it comes to coverage.

So with megaservers in place explain to me why the servers even need population caps?

WvW already has mapcaps, and so once capped you go into queue. Let the lemmings all move to an overpopulated server and spend hours waiting to get into WvW if they want to. OR if you’ve been on a kitten,T-whatever server for long enough, and the queues to get into WvW are ridiculous you get a one time freebie move to a lower tier server.

I am really glad that Arena net finally listened to the community 5 months from when this post was started. Sadly a lot of people on many servers were affected by this condition. In fact, many spent a lot of gold and real life money just so we could play viably in WvW again.

Something many players were discussing and perhaps wondering was if Arenanet could reopen free transfers to the servers with a high/medium/lower wvw population for tier 3 and under once the new metric goes live? This action will allow for a repopulation of servers that were mistakenly marked very high/full and in actuality were not.

I feel this is the only way to create good will for all the players particularly before the expansion. It will enable players to play where they want to not necessarily where they had to. It is a thought and like this thread of which you listened to the voices of the players. I hope you give this idea consideration as I think it will go a long way towards building good will in the community!

Regards,

Grim

Not sure free transfers to lower pop servers are the answer. A lot of people would transfer purely on impulse which is never a good thing. I would hope that some kind of tiered pricing system is in the works, something as follows -

Very High – 2000 gems
High – 1000 gems
Medium and below – 500 gems

The prob is on some servers (UW in my case but there are others like Eredon I think)
are completely empty. So in a way STILL 500 would be to expensive to motivate people to migrate

HOWEVER

I am quite glad that WvW is getting some attention and that a dev decided to post here for a change. So yay for that.

It would not be bad to offer a free transfer to a lower tier server for who had transfered once in the last year.. that would be nice.

Interestingly enough how YB ended up getting the worst WvW pop server in the game yet BG, DB, and JQ who already had a strong server presence gets a buff with additional strong servers. Too many complaints from the three of them of how it isn’t fair and now they get justification by getting a boost of players that equal 50 to 10 in each Borderland and EBG…day two and BG is already double ticked out above competition…uneven balance anyone??…switch the servers weekly and make these servers make new friends instead of buffing one to give it advantage over others…or in this case…3. Hatred of YB is funny as they worked their way up the tiers and then consistently beat BG and JQ even when they teamed up together to beat us as sheer numbers couldn’t get them a win until now. Great kitten show Anet…lets make them all even as best as possible and let the best player win…not make it 10:1 and watch and laugh. Great way to lose players to WOW.

Hum Necro a year old thread :P. Start a new thread to have this type of conversation. No one knew how many wvwer went to pve or stop playing just to come back for the update. The server mergers were based on the last match before the update. WvW guilds in the top NA tiers move around every couple of months stacking on some servers. YB was just the last server to get a large amount of transfers. They had the highest rating the day before the update, so they merged with the lowest pop wvw server.

Slayer Drox.7283:

Interestingly enough how YB ended up getting the worst WvW pop server in the game yet BG, DB, and JQ who already had a strong server presence gets a buff with additional strong servers. Too many complaints from the three of them of how it isn’t fair and now they get justification by getting a boost of players that equal 50 to 10 in each Borderland and EBG…day two and BG is already double ticked out above competition…uneven balance anyone??…switch the servers weekly and make these servers make new friends instead of buffing one to give it advantage over others…or in this case…3. Hatred of YB is funny as they worked their way up the tiers and then consistently beat BG and JQ even when they teamed up together to beat us as sheer numbers couldn’t get them a win until now. Great kitten show Anet…lets make them all even as best as possible and let the best player win…not make it 10:1 and watch and laugh. Great way to lose players to WOW.

Wait what? For starters, yes it’s true that YB is the most hated server in the game. It’s not for any other reason than your play style. YB is just not fun to play with. Whole Guilds and player left T1 just to get away from you folks. You’re that odd person on the play ground kids knew to avoid. Now, with that said, Anet’s horrible DBL and HoT gimmicks took a huge chunk of fun out of WvW. It also worked well with YB’s play style. So, some of YB’s recent hate is really just displaced HoT hate.

For the record, JQ’s world population status dropped to “high” before the pairing. Given another week or two for the algorithm to catch up, JQ probably would have dropped to “medium”. Meanwhile, YB and BG were still at “Very High”. So don’t get all bend out on that YB was given the short stick. That honor still goes to JQ. Though we’ve been given it repeatedly the past couple of weeks which kinda makes up for the shortcomings. If you know what I mean…..