Guild Wars 2

Merge the bottom 3 servers into the next tier.

This will make the bottom servers more competitive with the next tier up as they will be able to field more W3ers.

24 NA servers

Merge ranks

1. into #19
2. into #20
3. into #21

So according to the ranking post stickied up top.
Kaineng => Darkhaven
Devona’s Rest => Northern Shiverpeaks
Bolis Pass => Fergusion’s Crossing

You can spin the server mergers, as you are more concerned with players ability to have fun than a some bad press that will be forgotten if it works out for the best.
WoW lets low pop servers fester, as they do not want to merge and face some press about it.

Turn off server transfers firs. Give incentive to travel to low pop servers. If that doesn’t work do this.

I don’t know why they added 3 more servers in the first place.

transfer cost based on population

Something does need to be done….Kaineng and Devona’s Rest are ghost towns. I never see any major guilds playing in WvW on either server with the exception of [LaZy] on Kaineng. Seems like everyone has jumped ship.

The problem is not everyone on those servers is playing WvW. The additional servers might be need to support the PvE population.

SmokeyNYY.7841:

I don’t know why they added 3 more servers in the first place.

because there are glaring population issues

but people prefer to stack the top servers eat 5 hour queues and be in overflow for 90% of their playtime then complain on the forums, rather than moving to lower populated servers where they cant claim their server is the best in WvW even tho they didnt participate on it at all…

Lasica.5068:

The problem is not everyone on those servers is playing WvW. The additional servers might be need to support the PvE population.

I doubt the PvE population on those servers is that full. Besides it would be wiser to be more full than to have some zones a ghost town.

Even on HoD we have some zones that never go to overflow and our population is huge.

Since guesting can help alleviate PVE crowding, maybe it would be a good idea to merge servers with low WvW populations. And the publicity wouldn’t be too bad if it was explained that way, as strictly a WvW balancing.

I don’t know but DR just cant be competitive with out more people. WvW is not fun when you are camped by siege at the ent of your base.