Guild Wars 2

So, first I would like to say that I’m a huge fan of the current state of the game, also, english is not my first language so sorry for any grammatical errors.

I’ve bought the game on launch and played through a lot of servers until exhaustion. I’ve been in and out of playing too, recently I’ve started played again with some friends of mine who never stopped playing, problem is, it’s been three months and I still can’t get into TC which is the server that my friends play WvW regularly…
Ok, I get it, people like the T1 servers, my problem with this is that HoT is coming and hopefully bringing a bunch of new players which brings money to anet, there’s also the going free to play and what servers the new players choose, do you guys think that with the expansion of the game and the number of free accounts that will be created from here on forwards will interest anet into expand the current servers so that veteran players that got back in the game can change to a server that is not dead?

I like PvE and all, but I prefer to play with people that I know and all, we can get that easily with the megaserver system, but WvW is one of the reasons I bought the game in the first place and now I can’t get into the server I want to play with my friends :-(
I’m afraid that with these new changes I won’t be able to get into the server that I want and play a decent WvW experience with people that I know.

I also would like to know if there are people like me with these kind of problems…

Yup. Same. I’m in T1 and unable to play with friends that are in lower tiers. At least in WvW, which I play the most. Hopefully Anet expands the T1 servers, especially now with the influx of players from FtP accounts. Getting to T1 is already a nightmare, can’t imagine it getting any better with more new players around to compete equally for a slot with veterans that are here for years. And the current Glicko is not helping either… Nothing against new players, the more the better, but the server population needs to conform with it, and getting a spot from a veteran that is a loyal paying customer (regular Gem Store buyer) is kinda not fair.

t1 servers are unlikely to open until the reason for stacking there is gone.

If FA is the test for the player cap then it will be a while until any T1 server is open.

Yeah, I guess as of now is easier to craft a legendary from scratch than to get into one of those T1 servers, oh well… I hope the other tiers get good WvW players with this influx of new accs cause some of these servers are kitten …

With 3 copys of the new map coming, they’ll need to increase the maps cap to smt like 200. The maps are huge and they won’t work with the currently cap. Maybe servers will open up then.

I doubt you’ll get into TC any time soon.

I also don’t think that HoT will bring in that many more players for WvW. New players will be mainly PvE’ers. And at first, I’d even bet that WvW will lose population because everyone’s going to be making a Revenant and playing the new PvE areas.

The WvW population will never be anything near to what it was in the early days.

Maybe nonbandwagon guilds could get guildmates in full server?

Its not going to happen, the whole reason the WvW population balance changes came into effect was because of server stacking. The very reason Anet changed how the population counts is because of this.

Before you could wait until the wee hours of the morning and get lucky to transfer, often massive guilds would do this and throw off the balance of WvW (Looking at you YB and every single WvW tourny ever…)

If you re opened up the servers people would just flood all the highest servers because in general people think “Low” population servers are empty and have no idea it doesnt effect PVE and the player may never even do WvW thereby they are taking up a WvWrs spot on a higher map.

The goal was to try to balance populations and open it up to a better balanced WvW, nobody is forcing you to stay on a full server.

this isnt a problem, the server is full and thats all there is to it.
when a CS or BF or TF2 server is full, are you gonna complain or simply wait for a slot to appear? t1 most likely wont be open for at least a year.

SkyShroud.2865:

this isnt a problem, the server is full and thats all there is to it.
when a CS or BF or TF2 server is full, are you gonna complain or simply wait for a slot to appear? t1 most likely wont be open for at least a year.

Its hardly comparable, CS servers being full are those logged in at that moment, the WvW analogy would be the map caps not the server status. I think there might be a problem when HOT launches cause the new BLs are huge and with FA being the test case for what constitutes a full server the server caps might be too low.

Johje Holan.4607:

I doubt you’ll get into TC any time soon.

I also don’t think that HoT will bring in that many more players for WvW. New players will be mainly PvE’ers. And at first, I’d even bet that WvW will lose population because everyone’s going to be making a Revenant and playing the new PvE areas.

The WvW population will never be anything near to what it was in the early days.

agree with all that is said here pve is where the money is too which doesn’t help wvw either

Johje Holan.4607:

I doubt you’ll get into TC any time soon.

I also don’t think that HoT will bring in that many more players for WvW. New players will be mainly PvE’ers. And at first, I’d even bet that WvW will lose population because everyone’s going to be making a Revenant and playing the new PvE areas.

The WvW population will never be anything near to what it was in the early days.

Yeah, that makes me sad I didn’t came back to the game earlier, I got kinda hyped about HoT and came back to late to change servers apparently, so now we’ll see what happens, and with HoT the new PvE areas we’ll see a lot of players getting into these new maps, but what I’m more pumped up is the new borderland, since it’ll be larger, I wonder how that will play how long it will help the WvW queue that T1 servers have every reset…

morrolan.9608:

SkyShroud.2865:

this isnt a problem, the server is full and thats all there is to it.
when a CS or BF or TF2 server is full, are you gonna complain or simply wait for a slot to appear? t1 most likely wont be open for at least a year.

Its hardly comparable, CS servers being full are those logged in at that moment, the WvW analogy would be the map caps not the server status. I think there might be a problem when HOT launches cause the new BLs are huge and with FA being the test case for what constitutes a full server the server caps might be too low.

I was thinking about that last BW, in theory we would have another map to play which would aliviate the stress the EB has every reset, but on launch I bet that map will have even longer queue than EB and the home borderland currently have on reset, since it’ll be a new map, WvW players will more likely like to play and learn the map, so essentially we probably will end up having more players inside the map but also long queues, the queues would transfer from the current maps to the new one. That’s what I think it will happen, now the question is: how long will it take for people to balance population in this new borderland with the existing ones?

whats a que?

morrolan.9608:

SkyShroud.2865:

this isnt a problem, the server is full and thats all there is to it.
when a CS or BF or TF2 server is full, are you gonna complain or simply wait for a slot to appear? t1 most likely wont be open for at least a year.

Its hardly comparable, CS servers being full are those logged in at that moment, the WvW analogy would be the map caps not the server status. I think there might be a problem when HOT launches cause the new BLs are huge and with FA being the test case for what constitutes a full server the server caps might be too low.

if you put it strictly on wvw cap, then the next thing people gonna complain is the long queue. ppl will always find things to complain.