Guild Wars 2

What if the points earned in skirmishes were awarded to players?
The winners of a skirmish get 3 points, 2nd place gets 2 points, and 3rd place gets 1 point.
To prevent exploits and encourage effort, the reward decays by 1 point for each level below gold participation the player recieves.
These points could be used to give WvWers additional rewards without forcing them to change reward tracks. It also encourages effort and competition.
For example, a reward could be an ascended accessory for 30 points.
At 3 points every two hours, this would take 20 hours to achieve (aka a fairly long amount of time), but the payoff is that WvWers would be rewarded for focusing on winning WvW instead of doing random missions or grinding PvE. Over time, a WvWer will have the ability to purchase rewards regardless of whether or not they win, as long as they participate.
Some people may disagree with the lopsided rewards, but I believe that making everything perfectly equal makes WvW less competitive, which is an aspect WvW struggles with already.

I really, really, reeeeaaallly think that giving rewards attached to server’s performance is a bad idea. Remember the bandwagon to winner servers before the WvW tournaments.
The devs already said that they’re thinking in ways to reward players with skirmishes, and I think it is a fun and good idea. But I really hope that it is attached to personal performance (like participation in reward tracks) instead of server’s performance.

lmperdigao.2567:

I really, really, reeeeaaallly think that giving rewards attached to server’s performance is a bad idea. Remember the bandwagon to winner servers before the WvW tournaments.

To add to this, servers still do this. Look at YB and Mag. Mag got an influx of bandwagon people just this month for nothing more than to push Mag into T1. YB has similarly gotten an influx of bandwagon people and currently has everything flipped in T2 to their advantage (meaning it’s all their color), pushing to be sent up to T1 as well. They do this for the hell of it, you don’t get anything out of going up tiers nowadays.

Imagine that, except taken to a whole nother level.

Well, if you think about it, WvW has no purpose, so the people playing are only playing at the top where the fights are. Some people need more incentive than fun to win a game that is expensive and full of consumables.