Guild Wars 2

With the impending end of free transfers I see a lot of recruitment threads, which is to be expected. What I find a little questionable are the large servers still mass recruiting. Do people find it fun to be on a server where they make no impact? Does the idea of excessive queue times really appeal to guilds? Not to mention that if you are transferring just to be a winner, but can’t even get into any Wv3 map for sometimes upwards of an hour, are you actually winning? Any guild worth anything should stick it out with their server and learn to improve instead of taking the road most traveled and transferring. The way I see it, if you love Wv3 for what it is, you stick with your homeworld, win or lose, and more often than not, actually get to Wv3 when you want. If you are weak and enjoy easy mode play you transfer to a high queue time server you get to be a “winner” but the opportunity to play is drastically reduced, you become nothing more than a number in a crowd.

I am proud to have been on Anvil Rock since release, proud of what the server can accomplish. I guess I just don’t understand the transfer to win mentality.

Hmm, while I understand your point of view – from my PoV I felt lucky for my server to receive any transfers at all. We have been sitting in #3 Tier 3 for a looooong time (between #8 and #10 NA overall on the leaderboard since week 42 2012) and with recent transfers to Maguuma, Dragonbrand, CD and Kaineng we were sure to be finally pushed off the tier we have been scrambling so hard and staying up way too late into the night to stay in.. it’s still way too close to call.

I guess you could make the argument that it doesn’t matter what tier you are in if you’re having fun but in FA’s previous trips to tier 4 it really wasn’t that exciting with a 350k point lead and hours of +695 PPT.. this comes down to the glaring difference of strength/participation between each tier.

However I think this may be an exception as our scores in T3 are very tight still. I would like to hope everyone’s ideal matchup is against 2 relatively equally proportioned opponents. If I had hour long queues and was clearly outnumbering the opponents I would be absolutely bored.

A lot of recent transfers are the “snowball effect”. People wish to stay in a “top 10” realm as the guilds and strategy gets turned up a notch. Starts out with some guilds sensing a weakness and leaving early on. Once the server begins to lose guilds which affects their coverage they see an expanding weakness and choose to leave to fill another servers weak coverage hole instead of staying on a sinking ship which is heading for a tier they do not desire to be in. That’s the ideal result, anyways – filling other weak coverage areas for some servers and not all stacking up on a superserver. Doesn’t always work out that way.