Guild Wars 2

Lannah.1283:

The megaserver has made things worse/impossible for:
- native server communities and server pride
- world-boss communities (feedback from TxS, feedback from the Deso GW2 community)
- Guild missions for large guilds
- the roleplayers
- calls for WvW support in mapchat or advertizing WvW events in mapchat
- guild recruitment
- players with weaker computers (lagfests, FPS slideshows, disconnects, client crashes have made the game unplayable for some)

Most of the problems have to do with not being able to get everyone from your guild or alliance into the same instance (and on time for whatever you’re gathering for).

It’s cool if you’re a solo player with little interest in the community, a player unwilling to pay for a transfer to a higher-pop server, or if you’re just levelling up, roaming, and not really planning to take part in anything organized on a larger scale. I’m sure the game feels fresh then. Old-timers who have spent time and effort on building a community of some sorts, however, got stiffed.

QFT

Where do I start… This Megaserver thing is simply terrible.

It may have been a WONDERFUL addition to areas like Orr or the least populated areas of the game… But to make it global was a HUGE mistake. I have been defending the Megaserver idea for the last few weeks since it was announced but I now see how huge of a mistake it was.

Let’s take two examples that happened to me today, during the 2 hours I played the game :
-I’m trying to roleplay, too bad, there are people running around everywhere and I can’t find anybody speaking the language I’m used to roleplay with (french). I’m not reluctant to speak or communicate in any way shape or form with other player, whatever their language, I often find it is a generally fun experience, during dungeons and the such. But the ROLEPLAY COMMUNITY which A.net as constantly disregarded since release is going to suffer A LOT from this. Because I may be confortable with my english, but I’m still going to have a hard time roleplaying in this language. It might be a fun experience but not something I’d even dream to consider for the long run. If nothing is done, I fear that this huge part of your community, that must single handedly man 25% of some of your servers (Piken Square, Jade Sea, etc.) is simply going to fly off to another game… And I really hope this isn’t going to happen. Ever.
-But to top it off, my guild also tried a Bounty Hunt today… Oh boy was that grand ! We just landed in Lornar, and asked in the genral chat if anybody has seen our target and people start speaking in… finninsh in the chat. And then they asked us in English what the hell we were doing on their server, speaking french, which is a sensible reaction to any frog-eater invading your personnal space. However this was not their personnal space. It wasn’t ours either. The answer was simple : it was NO ONE’s ! We managed to communicate with them in the end so it’s no big deal… right ?
Well first let me tell you something : my 9 year old sister LOVE this game. But she’s got the level in English of a (you guessed it) 9 year old ! So what is she supposed to do now ? Find teacher for German / Spanish / Finnish or whatever other language she might stumble upon ? It’s ridiculous !
Secondly, but not less important in any way : when we finally did found our target, it turns out… THE ENTIRE GUILD WASN’T EVEN HERE ! That’s right, people from the same guild, on the same server, speaking the same language, all in each other friends list… FAILED to be able to play together. That’s really the word I want to stress the most from this all story : “FAIL”

Oh and one last thing : BRING BACK TOWN CLOTHES TO THE WAY THEY WERE. Those terrible colors mixed with the impossibility to create combinations with parts of other makes me sick… and give me the horrible impression that I’ve been robbed of an in-game possibility for no apparent reason.

Please A.net. I don’t want to make any petition or anything, but please, come back to your senses and CHANGE THIS. This should be your top priority. Living World can wait, but you HAVE to fix this.

I’m sorry if I’ve been quite harsh or anything, but I’ve really been fighting for this game. I want it to be as good as possible, but I’m really starting to feel like A.net is trying to kill it so they don’t have to go through a massive scandal to close the servers for another game…

Today is a sad day.

[EDIT] I also apologise for the awful lot of grammatical errors in this text by the way.

Bumping this so it can be brought to the devs attention, I’m really starting to get kitten ed off, and A.net isn’t going to make a good impression on people with things like this. + There’s going to be a huge number of potential players who are just passing be thinking that they missed the free week for some reason. Hope this get fixed up soon.

I’m bumping this with all my burning desire.

Make it happen A.net.

Just to let you know that you are not alone the problem seems to be global. My sister was so excited to finally try the game, guess she’ll have to wait a little bit longer.