Guild Wars 2

The answer to why server populations don’t need to be balanced has always been that WvW was a casual game mode. With the introduction of leagues this is no longer the case. In the case of NA servers, there is undoubtedly a huge population coverage difference between the 1-3 ranked servers and the 4-6 ranked servers. As you can imagine, this will cause some problems.

So…
1. What will Anet do to balance server populations or will they not do anything?

2. What will Anet do to prevent people from transferring to winning servers to get the rewards?

3. Now that WvW is taking a more serious direction, will we see more updates to the WvW game mode?

1. Nothing.
2. Nothing.
3. Fi….Nothing.

Everything will remain the same.

2. Hahahahahaha. Doing something cuts into gem card purchases. You can probably answer this one yourself.

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WvW is not casual…

“Right now, WvWvW is a mode stuck between its casual nature in design and its hardcore treatment by players. It breaks up and recreates server communities, then proceeds to do it again. It’s contradictory state drives people away from the mode. It has no interesting winning condition.”

Aytrix.4059:

3. Now that WvW is taking a more serious direction, will we see more updates to the WvW game mode?

They said they won’t do updates during seasons, so, ummm… no updates for at least 7 weeks, and then they might or might not have something.

Pretty sure that could mean there’s even less updates than we have now.

Chiolas.1326:

WvW is not casual…

“Right now, WvWvW is a mode stuck between its casual nature in design and its hardcore treatment by players. It breaks up and recreates server communities, then proceeds to do it again. It’s contradictory state drives people away from the mode. It has no interesting winning condition.”

I’m curious who said that, can’t watch stream where I am.

WvW taking a more serious direction? No, not really …. if this was true, the ‘seasons’ idea would have been more seriously thought out. PvE will continue to evolve while wvw and spvp will remain stale.

At the end of the day, why would anet combat people wanting to change servers, especially at $20 per transfer?

Vena.8436:

Chiolas.1326:

WvW is not casual…

“Right now, WvWvW is a mode stuck between its casual nature in design and its hardcore treatment by players. It breaks up and recreates server communities, then proceeds to do it again. It’s contradictory state drives people away from the mode. It has no interesting winning condition.”

I’m curious who said that, can’t watch stream where I am.

That was said a long time ago and not by an Anet team member