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Posted by: GideonWilhelm.5709

GideonWilhelm.5709

I logged in at around 3pm Eastern today, keyed up the WvW display, and found… this. What in the name of orphaned kittens is going on here? I mean, last week was the most AMAZING world vs world experience I’ve had with this game. It was a close, intense match, and it was AWESOME. And now this!? What happened!? Well, I can tell you that an alliance on Yak’s Bend broke up and transferred out to Sanctum of Rall, which is why they’re now dominating literally the entire map. Which brings me to the point many people have whined about for the longest time now, and I was always tried to tell them “shut up, it’ll all balance out, things will be fine once the steam gets going.” And last week, it did balance out. And the balance was amazing. But then…….. free world transfers allowed this to happen. End this crap, arenanet. I won’t say “oh waaaah everyone’s gonna up and quit” because I know I won’t be quitting. But I do wanna have fun with this game, and I do want to be competetive. This is not competetive. This is insane.

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Posted by: Kardiamond.6952

Kardiamond.6952

That’s Karma for you man. L:)

Rotthen (Necro) / Zhyx (Engineer) /Inglorious Beasterd (Ranger)
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Posted by: NightFox.3957

NightFox.3957

It looks like the same for every tier from the score screenshots I have seen thus far.

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Posted by: Seraph.8293

Seraph.8293

It looks like the same for every tier from the score screenshots I have seen thus far.

The consensus atm sure does seem to be that W3 sucks everywhere. Only the bottom 3 brackets aren’t looking at 100k+ blowouts. They just have 50k blowouts, lol.

Free transfers need to stop.

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Posted by: NightFire.7563

NightFire.7563

It looks like the same for every tier from the score screenshots I have seen thus far.

The consensus atm sure does seem to be that W3 sucks everywhere. Only the bottom 3 brackets aren’t looking at 100k+ blowouts. They just have 50k blowouts, lol.

Free transfers need to stop.

Not stop. But made to be 1 per Char.
Or make it so anyone that does World Trans. can’t join WvW till the following week. Unless brought back to the original home world.

Otherwise. If Yaks got there kitten together (And GoM) they’d be able to do something.

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Posted by: GideonWilhelm.5709

GideonWilhelm.5709

I’m honestly open to some kind of treaty or alliance between Yak’s Bend and Gates of Madness. I’m not a commander, but I think unite-and-conquer might be the way to go here. But even then, with both servers so savagely demoralized…

if I see this situation exactly the same at the end of the week, you can bet hell will be raised on these forums. And not just by me.

So maybe now is a good time to try out the reason ANet pitted 3 servers together? If it works, then I’ll love it. Otherwise, I don’t see what the point of playing that mode is.

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Posted by: Seraph.8293

Seraph.8293

It looks like the same for every tier from the score screenshots I have seen thus far.

The consensus atm sure does seem to be that W3 sucks everywhere. Only the bottom 3 brackets aren’t looking at 100k+ blowouts. They just have 50k blowouts, lol.

Free transfers need to stop.

Not stop. But made to be 1 per Char.
Or make it so anyone that does World Trans. can’t join WvW till the following week. Unless brought back to the original home world.

Otherwise. If Yaks got there kitten together (And GoM) they’d be able to do something.

Still not a solution. What’s to stop 40% of the servers W3 pop from moving to which ever server won the last round at the begining of the week every week (which is pretty much what happens right now with no limitations)?

I get that the guesting service is broken but lets be honest, I’ve met maybe 1 person on an overflow that I’ve actually been compelled to group with after the fact and that was in the beta. Also, I haven’t actually PVEed on an overflow outside the first week or so post-launch (because no one is clustered up in PVE zones anymore and because overflow play doesn’t count toward guild influence on your server so why bother).

So who cares if guesting is broken? I wouldn’t be using it if it worked anyway and neither would most other people.

Free transfers were supposed to be a stopgap until guesting got less broken but all it’s done is assure that right now the bulk of the community (myself included) feels no specific attachment toward any one server or another because the entire system is so fluid. It’s a failure in design and the problem will not self correct.

I actually want to transfer right now because w3 on my server is functionally dead and will be into the foreseeable future but there’s no where to go where this won’t be a problem.

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Posted by: NightFire.7563

NightFire.7563

I’m honestly open to some kind of treaty or alliance between Yak’s Bend and Gates of Madness. I’m not a commander, but I think unite-and-conquer might be the way to go here. But even then, with both servers so savagely demoralized…

if I see this situation exactly the same at the end of the week, you can bet hell will be raised on these forums. And not just by me.

So maybe now is a good time to try out the reason ANet pitted 3 servers together? If it works, then I’ll love it. Otherwise, I don’t see what the point of playing that mode is.

Needs to be 1v1v1v1.

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Posted by: kidbs.8920

kidbs.8920

They really are going to need to merge servers and then boost the number of people that are allowed to queue for each W3 map. The servers are imbalanced in every tier.

Even tier 1 looks almost like the picture in the OP. It’s silly and sad.

SoR – Nethernoz (Necro), Zealot of Pain (Guardian), William The Butcher (Ranger)

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Posted by: Seraph.8293

Seraph.8293

I’m honestly open to some kind of treaty or alliance between Yak’s Bend and Gates of Madness. I’m not a commander, but I think unite-and-conquer might be the way to go here. But even then, with both servers so savagely demoralized…

if I see this situation exactly the same at the end of the week, you can bet hell will be raised on these forums. And not just by me.

So maybe now is a good time to try out the reason ANet pitted 3 servers together? If it works, then I’ll love it. Otherwise, I don’t see what the point of playing that mode is.

The best example of 3v3 large scale pvp I’ve seen to date was RFOnline, a Korean grindfest with a brilliant soundtrack and some outstanding concept and art direction. What made it work is that ad hoc alliances were formed to keep one faction from getting too much ground too long (and it worked for a pretty long time too), but this was made much easier in that the three factions represented were very visually distinct and leveling took so bloody long that when you had a competative level character of one faction or the other you were invested in that factions success.

ANet has some really good ideas here but when the community and their affiliations are in a constant state of migration and when one red name looks so much like any other red name.. challenges are presented.

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Posted by: Nanorin.9285

Nanorin.9285

SoR can have their points. My guild spend 40+ pieces of siege yesterday on retaking EB. We went to puzzle to replace it and it was camped by SoR.

Time for PvE leveling alts and doing dungeons.

Good luck next week.

Just another Yak.