Guild Wars 2

Since i am getting famous here i am creating this post as a voting post. If you vote for bring back WvW seasons just comment “Yes and the reason why you want it back” and i will add your name to the list.
Yes i want the seasons back because i believe it will bring a lot of players into WvW well not just season the itself but the amazing rewards it will offer players and a good time!

CrimeMaker.8612

seasons were complete cancer

If it was all 4 tiers in the season together and matches changing every week, I’d be all for it.

Seasons will not likely return for the simple fact that they burned everyone out on the game and the weeks after left wvw pretty empty.

Anet has stated each season’s wake was a significant drop in wvw population for a long period of time after

CrimeMaker.8612:

Since i am getting famous here

Who are you?

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Our primary motivation for avoiding running another tournament, is that at the end of every tournament we saw a permanent dip in the number of players playing WvW. Presumably this was due to players burning themselves out during the tournament.

However, we can still run a poll to see if the majority of the community wants another 4 week tournament, even if it might be bad for the long term WvW population numbers. Though even if ‘running another tournament’ won the poll, we’d probably hold off until we get the scoring updates in.

What part of Our primary motivation for avoiding running another tournament, is that at the end of every tournament we saw a permanent dip in the number of players playing WvW. don’t you understand?

Problem with tournament is that people took the game as if it was their second job trying to win against unwinnable odds due people stacking at the winning servers and got burned out because of it. I was in the only server that have 2 last place awards in the tournaments (Eredon Terrace) and I can say I saw no difference in the WvW population in my server during that time, simply because everyone knew we wouldn’t win and just kept playing like we always did.

Not much point to a tournament if 11 of the 12 servers know they’re going to lose going in. Yeah sure maybe some players might come back (but for what? tournament tickets? lol) and of course the players guaranteed to come out are the BG hibernators.

I’d rather they start planning weekend/weekly type events to run at least once a month, just don’t screw it up like the golem event.

Not before they solve the population imbalance issues.
What’s the point of playing the seasons when for 10+ hours the pop of my server in the WvW maps is less than 30 players,while our enemies have multiple blobs covering at least two maps.

Swamurabi.7890:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Our primary motivation for avoiding running another tournament, is that at the end of every tournament we saw a permanent dip in the number of players playing WvW. Presumably this was due to players burning themselves out during the tournament.

However, we can still run a poll to see if the majority of the community wants another 4 week tournament, even if it might be bad for the long term WvW population numbers. Though even if ‘running another tournament’ won the poll, we’d probably hold off until we get the scoring updates in.

What part of Our primary motivation for avoiding running another tournament, is that at the end of every tournament we saw a permanent dip in the number of players playing WvW. don’t you understand?

I mean if you burn yourself out to the point of never coming back, in one season, that’s a personal issue. Honestly if the rewards weren’t less than a Teq run for a month + of work then maybe that’s why people said kitten that gamemode.

Aenaos.8160:

Not before they solve the population imbalance issues.
What’s the point of playing the seasons when for 10+ hours the pop of my server in the WvW maps is less than 30 players,while our enemies have multiple blobs covering at least two maps.

Starting day of the tournament: here you go BG here’s your gold trophy!
Now we all can play the season just for fun!

No. Because we still have not established answers to a lot of very old problems.
Some for example would be;
*Please give us back vanilla stability.
*Polish your kittening maps
*Delete/merge/split/WTFE you are eventually going to decide to do to servers in order to accommodate both the game mode and the games ACTUAL populace.

…do some of that and I’ll vote to bring seasons back. Until then I feel like bringing seasons back might encourage activity that works directly against whats trying to be accomplished here by trying things like server merging.

No. No. Nyet.

Why? ‘Seasons’ did more to kill commanders and guilds than anything else. It was a mistake from the start. As for the amazing rewards…. really? All that trouble and hassle for some skins? It should never, ever come back in any form.

zhonnika.1784:

No. No. Nyet.

Why? ‘Seasons’ did more to kill commanders and guilds than anything else. It was a mistake from the start. As for the amazing rewards…. really? All that trouble and hassle for some skins? It should never, ever come back in any form.

never say never, but as long as we have the current server system I agree….

Seasons were a dumb idea.

Expecting any game mode in which:

• There is no control over who is on your team
• The contest runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• The players can quit or switch teams whenever they please

To be any sort of “team sport” is foolish.

WvW is not, nor has it ever been a competitive arena where skill or strategy determines the outcome. It is not designed to do that. It is a pure numbers game where the greatest number of players logged in for the largest amount of time win matches.

Its appropriate rewards are context sensitive and personal. The new reward track system that counts and awards individual participation is much more appropriate than any team based reward structure due to the inherent instability of the competitive strength of the teams rapidly fluctuating.

Score and winning matches in WvW is, and always has been window dressing. Its only use is as a metric to match servers up with other servers that have similar coverage, in order to try and deliver a more even momnet-to-moment experience for players seeking to gain reward for participating in battles, by ensureing that those battles are at least somewhat more evenly matched. It is not a good metric to use to hand out rewards of any kind.

WvW tiers are not a cometitive ladder. They are an MMR rating of a giant, uncoordinated mob against another giant, uncoordinated mob. Having large guilds and good commanders does not change the fact that no single strategic entity accounts for a meaningful portion of any given matches warscore.