Guild Wars 2

Seems like WvW’s population problems is a classic case of tragedy of the commons, where individuals act in their own self interest, hurting everyone’s long term interests.

In the case of WvW, we have players transferring to higher tiers (or bandwagon servers) in order to have more fun, causing massive population imbalances; and in the end causing either stagnant matchups (if you want competitive matches) or massive blowouts (if you want matchup variety).

And far from policing this as a higher power, Anet actually encourages it so that they can make a buck off transfers.

Pretty sad.

Pretty much, our server spent a month or so being decimated by servers we shouldn’t have been matched against and this tournament has utterly destroyed any morale most players had.

The ratings shown on http://mos.millenium.org/matchups are seriously delayed, we’re just showing last place in ratings now when our population has been dropping steadily for a month.