Guild Wars 2

how can you guys think that sticking servers that are so far out ranked from each other can be fun? Why can you not stick servers that are evenly matched on a week to week basis? Used to love WVW but with 3 out of the past 4 weeks with uneven match ups is getting boring. I am very disappointed in this matter. Like my opinion matters just want to throw it out there

It’s not fun. We’ve had several weeks of either being steamrolled, or steamrolling ourselves, and either way it means lots of PVD and not much PVP. It’s like being in a football game where you get placed against a first division team one week, and then a little league team the next.

If you think it is bad now, wait for the leagues. There will be a lot more blowouts then.

style.6173:

If you think it is bad now, wait for the leagues. There will be a lot more blowouts then.

Not really true style, look at dzag vs AR and abbadonblob, they are 11 ranks apart of each other.

dzag has a really hard week this time, GL to them! we’ll see you when the leagues start guys

GH fought 13 ranks apart from them i thought last week. It’s crazy how big the deviation is… but apparantly Anet likes this so much ppl leave from low ranked servers because their getting steamrolled.

You need to remember that it was the people who asked for this.

RNG > all, but aside from that, it is much better than facing the same 2 opponents 4-5 weeks in a row. The random element they added is definitely much better than the stagnation that came before it.

Pardon me while I use this spot for my rant. It’s as good as any.

NSP is currently ranked I think 16th. We’re fighting against a rank 10 server. Now let me remind you of what the dev post was when this whole sever ‘scrambling’ came out.

As servers play the same servers over and over again, our ranking data becomes less accurate and therefore a lot less useful. So what are we going to start doing about it? The simple answer is we are going to scramble the matchups from week to week so that while worlds will still be fighting worlds of similar skill level, we’ll be a bit more lenient about who can play against whom.

So this whole thing was started because the bean-counters were getting inaccurate data. And I’m guessing this league system is just another way of them saying they want better numbers to crunch.

Well here’s a fact regarding the current matching system and the league system if it’s just as bad: I play this game for FUN. Not stats, not ego, not loot… FUN. When our server is perpetually put in the position of being a ‘Cinderella’ server, it’s not FUN. When I don’t have FUN, my wallet slams shut and I uninstall the game. I don’t play or invest in games where I constantly get roflstomped. Don’t get me wrong, I like a challenge. But they’re assuming that by matching servers against nearly impossible odds that, instead of just being challenged, they’ll ‘learn’.

World vs. World is a lot about tactics, and when you fight the same worlds with the same tactics you never really get to learn anything new and adapt your strategy. This is your chance for your world to rally together, recruit more people, and try to overthrow a server above you.

Here’s a lesson from psychology 101 for them. If you want a rat to ‘learn’ it’s way through a maze, slapping him in the head and putting him back in the starting spot is the least effective way to do so.

Furthermore, where they get the idea that WvW’ers are going to be able to go to Orr and somehow convince PvE’ers that getting their * kicked in WvW is more FUN than ‘winning’ at PvE is beyond me. Again, basic psychology.

So here’s my note to the devs. You can sit there and stare at your spreadsheet all day and admire your ‘ranking data’, you can claim you understand group psychology and say that losing is good for them, but at the end of the week when my server has it’s **** stomped yet again and I cease to have FUN, you might instead want to look at your balance sheet instead of your server stats.

so yea, we could have easily beaten NSP for their position in the leagues, but our server had a talk and we wish NSP the best!! Knock em dead!! -snicker-

from a server in the fun league!

Wanderer.3248:

It’s not fun. We’ve had several weeks of either being steamrolled, or steamrolling ourselves, and either way it means lots of PVD and not much PVP. It’s like being in a football game where you get placed against a first division team one week, and then a little league team the next.

Agree, right now Gandara and miller’s sound are being absolutely steamrolled by vizunah – no fun at all for either side.

this random mixing show the fundamental problems in wvw

it should NEVER be possible to bring more people than the enemy can have

just cap player limit per map
on all servers to 25 when 1 server have lower than 25
cap to 50 when 1 server lower than 50 but all higher than 25
cap to 75 …….. you get the idea

and so on

would balance complete wvw much faster – noone would wanna be on a stacked server and people would go to lower tier servers and it would be balanced in ALL RANKS from 1-over9000

atm even when 3-5 ranks difference the matchup is a joke cause servers get roflstomped even in tier 1

Fengist.5739:

Pardon me while I use this spot for my rant. It’s as good as any.

NSP is currently ranked I think 16th. We’re fighting against a rank 10 server. Now let me remind you of what the dev post was when this whole sever ‘scrambling’ came out.

As servers play the same servers over and over again, our ranking data becomes less accurate and therefore a lot less useful. So what are we going to start doing about it? The simple answer is we are going to scramble the matchups from week to week so that while worlds will still be fighting worlds of similar skill level, we’ll be a bit more lenient about who can play against whom.

So this whole thing was started because the bean-counters were getting inaccurate data. And I’m guessing this league system is just another way of them saying they want better numbers to crunch.

Well here’s a fact regarding the current matching system and the league system if it’s just as bad: I play this game for FUN. Not stats, not ego, not loot… FUN. When our server is perpetually put in the position of being a ‘Cinderella’ server, it’s not FUN. When I don’t have FUN, my wallet slams shut and I uninstall the game. I don’t play or invest in games where I constantly get roflstomped. Don’t get me wrong, I like a challenge. But they’re assuming that by matching servers against nearly impossible odds that, instead of just being challenged, they’ll ‘learn’.

World vs. World is a lot about tactics, and when you fight the same worlds with the same tactics you never really get to learn anything new and adapt your strategy. This is your chance for your world to rally together, recruit more people, and try to overthrow a server above you.

Here’s a lesson from psychology 101 for them. If you want a rat to ‘learn’ it’s way through a maze, slapping him in the head and putting him back in the starting spot is the least effective way to do so.

Furthermore, where they get the idea that WvW’ers are going to be able to go to Orr and somehow convince PvE’ers that getting their * kicked in WvW is more FUN than ‘winning’ at PvE is beyond me. Again, basic psychology.

So here’s my note to the devs. You can sit there and stare at your spreadsheet all day and admire your ‘ranking data’, you can claim you understand group psychology and say that losing is good for them, but at the end of the week when my server has it’s **** stomped yet again and I cease to have FUN, you might instead want to look at your balance sheet instead of your server stats.

After a year of being stomped on by players who outman me, outgun me and out magic me to death, literally in WvW, I not only agree with your posting, I believe it is one of the most cogent postings I have ever seen in a forum – any forum – not just a gaming forum.

We are here for fun. This is a hobby for many and as a hobby, fun is our goal. We stop playing when we are not having fun any longer and that is exactly what you are saying – we’re going to get psychologically beaten down by WvW world matches that are NOT “similar in skills” and if Anet can’t even keep to their own words and promises, WvW is done before it ever gets fixed.