Guild Wars 2

I haven’t been keeping track of the news. But are there any plans from ANet to merge servers or something along those lines, to increase the borderland presence of low populated servers? Or are we being allowed to choose new server for free, when HoT hits?

If anyone has any information about that, I would be grateful, if you shared

There has been no mention of server merges or free transfers.

We have been told their plan id to focus on WvW after HoT, they haven’t gone into detail but they have said they will be looking into many things. Take that as you will but I think most are hoping for a large overhaul including but not limited to server population issues.

I think they have said they will never merger servers for the reasoning of letting servers keep their identity. I think they have already done the major changes to population that they plan on doing for now (new population for server transfers). I think they are more looking to find ways to pull more people in to WvW and make the stability (remove server lag) better.

There are a lot of players that spend a fair amount of time in WvW that are ‘taking a break’ until HoT release. I would think you can expect to see population levels on all servers go up a noticable amount when HoT comes out, however don’t expect this to ‘fix’ all the problems in fact it might make more (since some server may gain more or less players creating population in-balances)

Good news is they have said they are aware of problems with WvW and they plan to focus on it after HoT release. You can already see some work getting put in for the WvW section of the game. Hopefully they continue to show support for the game mode after launch as they stated they would.

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

There are a lot of players that spend a fair amount of time in WvW that are ‘taking a break’ until HoT release. I would think you can expect to see population levels on all servers go up a noticable amount when HoT comes out, however don’t expect this to ‘fix’ all the problems in fact it might make more (since some server may gain more or less players creating population in-balances)

The fact that ANET will not have time to do any WvW focused fixes until well after HoT’s launch and the fact that HoT itself will seriously mess with the norm of WvW populations for a while does have me a bit worried. I get the feeling ANET was hoping to capitalize on former players coming back to check out HoT and F2P accounts enough that we would not notice some of the more major issues with the new Desert Borderland map and population imbalances in general. It is unfortunate that they could not take the time to set up a better system 6 months ago before things got into such a sad state as they are now but I guess we are stuck waiting for a fix.

I just don’t want to see people forget where the real problems are or get too distracted by shiny new class specializations imbalances. There are a lot of ways WvW needs support and it helps that ANET listed them is pretty much the correct order on their “issues” post but six more months from now are we all still going to be able to agree on anything? I hope so, WvW population imbalance dramatically affects everything else that is goofy in WvW as well and what kind of fixes ANET entertains should be greatly affected by the opinions we all express over the next several months. How much protection of community will we be willing to trade for entertainment to last us another three years? Is it too late for many of the elements that drew a lot of us to WvW in the first place?

PariahX.6970:

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

There are a lot of players that spend a fair amount of time in WvW that are ‘taking a break’ until HoT release. I would think you can expect to see population levels on all servers go up a noticable amount when HoT comes out, however don’t expect this to ‘fix’ all the problems in fact it might make more (since some server may gain more or less players creating population in-balances)

The fact that ANET will not have time to do any WvW focused fixes until well after HoT’s launch and the fact that HoT itself will seriously mess with the norm of WvW populations for a while does have me a bit worried. I get the feeling ANET was hoping to capitalize on former players coming back to check out HoT and F2P accounts enough that we would not notice some of the more major issues with the new Desert Borderland map and population imbalances in general. It is unfortunate that they could not take the time to set up a better system 6 months ago before things got into such a sad state as they are now but I guess we are stuck waiting for a fix.

I just don’t want to see people forget where the real problems are or get too distracted by shiny new class specializations imbalances. There are a lot of ways WvW needs support and it helps that ANET listed them is pretty much the correct order on their “issues” post but six more months from now are we all still going to be able to agree on anything? I hope so, WvW population imbalance dramatically affects everything else that is goofy in WvW as well and what kind of fixes ANET entertains should be greatly affected by the opinions we all express over the next several months. How much protection of community will we be willing to trade for entertainment to last us another three years? Is it too late for many of the elements that drew a lot of us to WvW in the first place?

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" Your Customers Will Never Forget How You Treat Them

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In result:

It is too late, there will not a willing to trade, there will not be another 3 years.

And for our expressions of opinions: see Trash Bin. Last: merging servers or not merging servers is not the solution.

You will see.