Guild Wars 2

Imo something far different than anything seen before can be expected from the servers who recently recived a large infux of players. In this game there are a large number of players who think zerging and overwhelming numbers is fun. Many of those players just all flocked to the same servers.

There are players who actually like to zerg and get vast amounts of pleasure out of that. Heck, anet had to try and implement a npc system so a server could capture a single point because, already, many servers were happy to take everything and camp spawn points too. There used to be some of those players everywhere. This sudden server transfer deadline may have, seems to have, just sucked all those players off of any server that had no more potential to overwhelm, and concentrated them on just a few. Where they have ended up, they are going to stay put. I doubt they will be paying to move servers anytime soon.

How the competiton plays out when the newly populated servers meet the perennial top servers will be good entertainment. I expect with some certainly it will not be a clean affair. As for me, a player on SBI, I am looking forward to a lower tier. I expect the quality of play will be very high with low que times, good sportmanship, and fair play. I have seen that already. I don’t know of any players who will be camping spawn points or jumping puzzles, etc. on SBI. They all left.

In short, a match up between those servers who retained their top guilds and seasoned players, and those refugees who bailed into just a few servers who had room and oceanic guilds, is coming soon.

/grabs popcorn

Going to be honest. I have almost no interest on what happens outside my own server and the servers we play. Its likely YB and SBI will be facing each other very soon and that is something I am looking forward as I am sick to death of fighting bandwagon servers

The new populated servers will get most likely spanked hard once they climb up since most of the new people are freeloaders who stop queing once they run into any real opposition.

Until then the super server members get to enjoy 2 hour ques to even get into the maps while the other half of the servers have barely ques at peak times in 1 of the 4 maps.

They really shouldn’t have announced the end of free transfers , matchups are such a mess across the tiers now.

Ireniicus.2167:

Going to be honest. I have almost no interest on what happens outside my own server and the servers we play. Its likely YB and SBI will be facing each other very soon and that is something I am looking forward as I am sick to death of fighting bandwagon servers

4 days in counting good luck to both of you.

I think the truth is there is a certain percentage of migrating players that not only like zerging with overwhelming numbers, but only like zerging with easy victories. And the paid transfers won’t solve this because its going to be extremely cheap, or maybe even free, to transfer down to low pop servers.

So as this group of free riders we’ll call them are on a server that goes up and gets spanked, they will simply eye the next bandwagon server near the bottom, probably tag along with the first good guild that moves down, and then repeat the same cycle again till that new server gets toward the top and gets challenged again.

It would be a huge number difference between the first 3 tiers and the rest of others, that’s for sure.

This isn’t group vs group, but World vs World!!!

You knew the type of game you paid for, so quit complaining that they’re creating the massive war type atmosphere World vs World was meant to be. They created a group based player vs player atmosphere when they created sPvP.

I run solo in WvW, so spare me the childish; “You run in Zerg nonsense”.

Pendragon.8735:

I think the truth is there is a certain percentage of migrating players that not only like zerging with overwhelming numbers, but only like zerging with easy victories. And the paid transfers won’t solve this because its going to be extremely cheap, or maybe even free, to transfer down to low pop servers.

So as this group of free riders we’ll call them are on a server that goes up and gets spanked, they will simply eye the next bandwagon server near the bottom, probably tag along with the first good guild that moves down, and then repeat the same cycle again till that new server gets toward the top and gets challenged again.

Just read the release notes about cheaper gem transfers to lower tier servers. If that results in what you say, that is a real big bummer.

We can all see what anet is trying to do of course. They are hoping to give lower tier servers a recruiting advantage so as to increase their WvW population and to spread the WvW players out among the servers. I for one never expected a mechanic designed to discourage movement among servers to encourage the movement of guilds, who do not want to put up with long que times, to bottom tier servers!

I think they are trying to accomplish what free server transfers could not. As a member of a former top tier server moving rapidly down, I was hoping never to run into those players again lol.

This will not be the last we are hearing about this. Many in the native populations of the recently flooded servers have not been happy. Much no doubt to the surprise of the invading masses who feel the natives should be thankful for their recent success.

It’s no little thing for a server to feel a sense of community and have that invaded by others who feel superior and who tell you that, on top of putting up with our attitude, you are doing it wrong too. I say keep those who want WvW victory in any way and at any cost in a world all their own.

Straegen.2938

Kaineng is actually guilds from high level servers that have added on as they rose through the ranks. It will be no surprise to many when they hold their own in T1/T2. I would say it will be a surprise to many if they do not dominate T3 assuming they land there.

With Kaineng’s oceanic population, anything less than T1 would be a big defeat for the large number of NA players and guilds who moved there. The oceanic population is definately T1 material. It is what kept SBI in T1 as long as it did. If they fail it will be due to the NA players.

Straegen.2938

They were a mess before the announcment. Kaeneng and Maguuma both trounced their tiers before the announcement.

WarMachine moved to Kaeneng and with them soon after many other players and guilds. The server cutoff however magnified and added urgency to server transfers. What began as normal server to server stuff was magnified 10 fold by every wanna be WvWer who felt they needed to rush to just the few servers who were perceived to have worldwide coverage and a chance at domination.

The players doing the moving are in many ways a player of a different personality and they are all moved to just a couple servers, displacing the local population in the process. Unlike the guild PvX and the alliance on Henge in the beginning, who wanted to see if they could dominate and then broke up because zerging was no fun, these groups now on these few transfer stuffed servers live off that feeling. Just check out the scores.