Guild Wars 2

Coming from the founding TA alliance, and from a guild that has had to literally spend weeks of duration being part of mass coordination changes to try and rectify the severe problems that free transfers have had on WvW:

Please stop free transfers with immediate effect. We have lost more than half our roster size since launch, and have just gone through a major reorganisation with many other guilds all across the game. We will not do this again.

Freelancer.4526:

ritsuko.2863:

Marstar makes me confused.

Marstar’s lack of knowledge about AA makes me cry little kitten tears..

I suppose it helps us in the end however., feeding misinformation around.

The issues with AA are plain to see, for anyone with insight:

- Over-focus on planning aspects that were ultimately of no relevance to your competitive capability (see: leaked PR spreadsheets), but raised the stature of AA far too early – practicallly ensuring NSP was going to overloaded at launch. The resulting queue time issues led to a decision to server transfer that significantly fragmented and weakened AA as a rival;

- Inability to control internal drama and lack of ethics re: use of spies that cost you important guilds in key EU timezones around launch (see: leaked leaving posts on AA forums); and

- Unsuccessful assessment of the culture and capabilites of the Oceanic/Asian gaming regions and associated inability to ensure adequate particpation levels from a starting roster size far larger than TA.

We built an alliance and implemented an approach that was specifically intended to compete with the few hardcore alliances that were being promoted pre-launch, in the top tier of the game. What AA had on paper was ostensibly a very powerful force, with extensive 24/7 coverage.

However – your resulting failure to deliver on this potential, and subsequent critical missteps that have compounded the issues, are at the root of the problems with the top tier of WvW today.

Edit: to focus the key points.