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I was in queue for about 2 1/2 hours last night and then just went to bed. Never got in to wvwvw. I tried everything from restarting the client , to changing maps, to queue every 15 minutes. I am not upset that there is a queue. I am upset at all the hoops we have to jump through to get past arena nets BROKEN queue. Give me a real Queue that I do not have to guess on how to best get into a map. Is this really too much to ask for ?Please give me a Queue where is is first come first serve.
My boons are expiring early. I still have time left on them, but they just disappear. I think what is happening is my extra boon duration is not being applied on server side but it is being applied on client side. I did notice this when I was getting more lag then usual as well. Is this a know bug ? It really is a big problem since I am not getting my 30% boon duration increase.
Ever since the recent hot fix, I have been getting disconnected very frequently. Also other people are getting disconnected and reporting massive server lag, and not even during prime time. It is so bad that I can not play for more than 3 minutes before being disconnected now. It seems to be getting worse. People all over the map are reporting disconnects. What is going on ? When/How are you (Anet) going to fix this ?
I had thought for some time about making this post, for a couple of days in fact, knowing that some wouldn’t agree, but decided it is something we need to broach.
I’m talking in particular about the collapse of SoS and the subsequent transfer of people off of it. Before I continue let me be clear, SoS is a great server that I respect, it held the number 1 spot for many weeks, and many great people were responsible for this. No one can ever take that away.
In any event, as a WvW community we’ve come to a cross road now. That is, just prior to Free transfers closing, JQ stacked itself and made itself a formidable force. Initially JQ struggled, particularly over the weekends but it soon became apparent JQ couldn’t be stopped. JQ has recruited better than others and has now, much like SoS previously, placed itself in a position to win repeatedly.
As this became obvious a number of people left SoS. Why? Only they can tell you, but the reverberations are still being felt. It set a precedence and in turn other people may have thought for some time about it, ultimately some did in fact decide to leave. The symbolism of this was subsequently felt throughout the SoS community and in turn others left, a snowball effect. As I type this I’m aware of similar things happening within the EU WvW community.
Why is it an issue? Because free transfers have FINISHED.
People now have to use gems to transfer, some may have the gold to get the gems others may have to farm more, a percentage will have to use real money to purchase gems.
Why is this relevant? Because GW2 is designed to make money and by people using gems to transfer they have in turn undermined the WvW community by reinforcing that. Let me explain.
JQ was going to win, everyone could see that. With free transfers ended, it would be expected that JQ would win for a long time.
At that time, the pressure was on ArenaNet. If JQ was simply going to win forever and ArenaNet let it continue that way, with nothing but ppt to focus on then it would upset the community greatly. Now I guess what’s sad is that it would have taken time, weeks if not months for ArenaNet to do something. It’s no secret that the WvW community is placed far behind PvE and sPvP, there would be in no hurry to make changes.
However, that pressure and any immediacy with it is now significantly less, for 2 reasons.
1) The WvW community can ‘manage’ itself. If people are unhappy that JQ is winning or in the future BG, it’s ok. The community will start to transfer to a different server, that’s high population and within the same tier or one tier removed.
2) The business that makes the game makes MONEY. Anyone within that infrastructure that cared about JQ dominance, that wanted to address these issues and the future of WvW has had their influence undermined by the money that’s being made by transfers. The corporates will be standing back saying ‘OMG don’t change it, were making money, just leave it and see what happens. Why didn’t you stop free transfers sooner!!??’. Actually the worst case scenario is that they try and reinforce the transfer trend.
So that’s where we are at, nothing needs to change because we can use 1800 gems (very high server) which is just under 35g (adjusted) to solve our own problems.
At this point there’s nothing more to be said. If you didn’t think about the server you were on prior to free transfers closing, perhaps you should have, are things really THAT bad there, I don’t believe so. The server where you currently are is OK.
So we are now in the position of ‘do we use gems to transfer?’. If you care about WvW, don’t transfer. Think about server pride, about what fun means to you and how to win, without winning all the time should your server get less ppt than others and what that all means to ArenaNet.
If you have recently transferred, then be happy where you are. Place pressure on those that make the changes if you are unhappy sometime in the future. But don’t transfer, in the long run, the WvW community does not benefit, those that don’t care about WvW do.
Respect
GASP!!! A gaming company is making money ! OH NO! That means we can play their games and they won’t go belly up. Applaud! This guy knows nothing about economics. Guess what ANET NEEDS to make money. They do have bills to pay. The only problem is that server transfers should have ALWAYS been paid transfers.
This is my first post ever in 5 months of playing. I was sooo angry when I saw these new dailies. You have basically alienated your WvW crowd. Now I see exactly what path this game is taking. Thanks for ruining perfectly good dailies.