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The only players i do have some sympathy are the ones that for some reason couldn’t participate for an entire week and have no chance of receiving the title reward.
That would be me (sorta). I actually got 3 of the 5 achievements for week 1 before the clock ran out.
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People play this game for rewards? I play it to have fun.
Everybody plays it for fun. People disagree on what fun is though. Some people’s fun is rewards…other to explore, and still others to stab people in the back. And unless you can afford to dump a lot of RL cash on gems, people need rewards so they can fund other things. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_Test for an overview on one of the motivation classification schemes)
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<snip> I am not saying there isn’t an issue with transfers and stacked servers etc. But I do not see why the lower servers should get rewarded for being as such. You want to take rewards after from transfers then I can understand and it does suck that some servers got ravaged by this. But it’s been happening long before there was a season as well. That just made it worse.
“Because every person knows that the “winners” are winners only because of coverage "
While there is certainly truth to this, it’s not the only reason.
TL;DR The current server meta is boring, and threatens the overall viability of WvW
A lot of people aren’t really communicating well about this. Don’t think that it’s about fairness. A better approach is to think about it in terms of interestingness.
The current situation has parallels to the pre-Draft NFL. Some teams then were doing very well because they were in bigger markets and could afford better player and coaching talent. Many other teams were unable to compete and since it’s hard to attract lots of customers to watch a team that has no chance of winning at all, those teams were in danger of bankruptcy. This made for a boring and unbalanced league that was in danger of collapsing where no one would make money….so, in the interests of keeping the league viable the team owners voluntarily accepted the Draft where the poorest performing teams had first choice of the new players. There was still a gap between top and bottom but it was much narrower and could change from year to year. The games became more interesting to watch (and play in). The occasional blowout can be fun, but not an entire season’s worth. The NFL was started down the path to the immense profitability it enjoys today.
In WvW we have a similar situation where servers that are winning attract players that want to win and thus the server stacks and wins even more. This threatens the WvW league as a whole as many WvW players and potential players will keep away, particularly on the inferior servers. Games become mostly lopsided, boring and no real test of skill. If enough players stay away, Anet would have to consider limiting resources spent on it or lose money on it. If you are happy about that situation, then fine. But many players aren’t happy. To change this you need to have some reason for players and leaders to switch to non-top servers and servers with coverage gaps. Most obvious way of doing that is spreading loot in such a way that it encourages players to move to reinforce servers with inferior performance. I’m not convinced that this is the best way, but it would at least be fairly easy to do. There are other ways of doing it, including the (I think) ineffectual approach Anet is taking of relying on queue wait time boredom to convince the players to move (which Edge of the Mists will eliminate).
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There is a longer version of the Dragon Bash song at the tail end of this twitch video:
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/2406767?t=10m45s
So I spent a little time transcribing the lyrics for y’all:
Bash The Dragon
This world has lived in shadow from a pair of demon’s wings,
but none here fear the future or the darkness that it brings.
The monster puts on quite a show, expecting us to yield,
but there’s just one course of action when we take up sword and shield…
BASH THE DRAGON! SMASH THE DRAGON!
Drive it right back into its den!…
BASH THE DRAGON! SMASH THE DRAGON!
May it never rise up again!…
We send our best and bravest to attack with all their might,
the skillful and the willful each line up to join the fight.
The beast may leave corruption in a swath across the land,
but we won’t leave it breathing when our heroes make a stand…
BASH THE DRAGON! SMASH THE DRAGON!
Drive it right back into its den!…
BASH THE DRAGON! SMASH THE DRAGON!
May it never rise up again!…
Minions come in dozens from the Peaks and from the Shore,
But we face each wave with bravery and we’ll never lose this war.
In every brawl a few may fall but more will join the queue,
and if that lizard shows it’s head then this is what we’ll do…
BASH THE DRAGON! SMASH THE DRAGON!
Drive it right back into its den!…
BASH THE DRAGON! SMASH THE DRAGON!
May it never rise up again!…
BASH THE DRAGON! SMASH THE DRAGON!
Drive it right back into its den!…
BASH THE DRAGON! SMASH THE DRAGON!
May it never rise up again!…
BASH THE DRAGON! SMASH THE DRAGON!
May it never rise up again!…
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