Guild Wars 2

In MMOs server worlds were a product of technology limitations more than anything else. In the past this set up made sense but with the megaservers it just seems to muddle the conversation a bit. Both from a technical and a lore standpoint calling them worlds just seems incorrect.

Instead of calling them worlds in reference to a specific server, perhaps we should start calling them Alliances; such as the Ehmry Bay Alliance, the Crystal Desert Alliance, the Tarnished Coast Alliance, etc. WvW is a collection of guilds battling over resources for their world/alliance. Wouldn’t it make more sense to call it an Alliance instead of World?

First the devs would need to merge guild iterations across the megaserver, then reskin worlds into alliances. Then add a UI element for choosing an alliance upon guild creation. Existing guilds would be auto assigned to the alliance corresponding to their old worlds.

Thoughts?

A kitten by any other name… changing the name doesn’t change anything.

I am a believer that Guild Alliances should be the mechanism that aligns WvW fights but there should be no pre-fabricated “worlds”. Guilds that are allied should be pitted against guilds they are at war with along with some other factors to help balance out the match.

What we need is three alliances. My signature shows the way.

I think it would be interesting to see AvAvA. Server populations are main reason for the WvW imbalance. AvAvA, however, would increase the server load to accommodate all the new matches unless they replaced WvW with AvA.

Unless I am mistaken, since WvW is outside of the GW2 Lore, it would be fine to reintroduce guild/alliance-based PvP.

If your server is even slightly organized, then most of the bigger guilds from your server should know each other and have some sort of internal alliance beetwen them.