Guild Wars 2

Was it intentional for having 7 servers to go full or was this a bug introduced with the server linking? There was a lot of Medium servers even that went Full which makes not much sense.

We want to transfer but held off because Tyler said not to yet… still want to transfer….

Can we get a time frame? (Days, weeks, months, years, on the table?)

Lots of players are trying out WvW again after recent changes. Some may leave again soon (I hope they do not).

The idea to lock overpopulated servers is to get people spread out more evenly and make matches more fun. You could still transfer to less populated server even now.

We don’t want to go to a different server. We have been planning to transfer for a bit and Tyler said not to.

well full server or high server = 1800 gems to move
server that use to cost only 500 gems now also 1800 gems to move

FogLeg.9354:

The idea to lock overpopulated servers is to get people spread out more evenly and make matches more fun.

There is no cause and effect that forcing players to spread out will equal more fun matches. Balanced Tiers is far more important than trying to equalize world populations.

Keviin Snow.5760:

well full server or high server = 1800 gems to move
server that use to cost only 500 gems now also 1800 gems to move

Full server is full. You can’t transfer there.

You can transfer to the lower pop realms that got merged, so basically its kinda like all servers are open.

DeWolfe.2174:

There is no cause and effect that forcing players to spread out will equal more fun matches. Balanced Tiers is far more important than trying to equalize world populations.

Where have you been for last 3 years? the players who stormed into tier 1 servers, abandoning every server in last tiers are the cause WvW got into boring endless downward spiral of losing players who did not find anyone to fight.

You think last tiers were “balanced” and “fun” just because all servers were empty? No, they were horrible. The top EU servers have been fairly balanced and they change tiers constantly, thats the proof you want. Not that stale NA locked system.

Crazy.6029:

You can transfer to the lower pop realms that got merged, so basically its kinda like all servers are open.

I expect this loophole to be abused at some point….. I mean why make anything full if you can xfer to the linked server… I know you run the danger of being un-linked, but the hoppers will just hop again later.

i guess is some kind of API bug

FogLeg.9354:

The top EU servers have been fairly balanced and they change tiers constantly, thats the proof you want. Not that stale NA locked system.

Tier volatility does not inherently mean fun or interesting. I look at the recent matches in EU and many end up as blow outs. I look at score evolutions and incomes and see coverage gaps which most likely leads to players not having fun in those time zones. World building and match management is about creating balanced coverage and populations. Any extremes will leave players unhappy with the mode.

FogLeg.9354:

DeWolfe.2174:

There is no cause and effect that forcing players to spread out will equal more fun matches. Balanced Tiers is far more important than trying to equalize world populations.

Where have you been for last 3 years? the players who stormed into tier 1 servers, abandoning every server in last tiers are the cause WvW got into boring endless downward spiral of losing players who did not find anyone to fight.

Uh no, the primary cause is the mode becoming stagnant and anet rather than make changes that improved the mode actually made changes that worked against the mode. Prior to this patch people were making timelines of the evolution of the mode and its in those.