As someone who is directly affected by these decisions (mostly WvW-Player, playing on Dzagonur since the beginning, linked with Abaddon’s Mouth, witnessed by our enemies as Abaddon player) I am extremely disappointed by these choices.
I am proud of my server. When i came back to the game 2 years ago, we were in the lowest tier. But we got our kitten together, threw in some gold to finance our best commanders, established a coverage and slowly worked our way up again. When the world linkings hit, we were in the mid of climbing silver league, beating our rivals in long standing (Abaddon’s Mouth and Elona Reach) every week. We attracted our fair share of bandwagoners, but the core of the Dzago WvW players was always what made the server work – and we were proud that we could show our enemies that we did it, against all odds.
And all of a sudden, we’re linked to Abaddon. A server that we spanked in fights for 7 weeks in a row and that only got points due to nightcapping. We were like: WTF?
But okay, we were focussing up, got all those Aba scrubs in line and formed one of the mightiest WvW-alliances that are there at the moment. Last week Abaddon got its first silver medal.
Yes. Abaddon got it. Abaddon. No mentioning of Dzagonur here.
Don’t get me wrong, I do understand technical limitations and economical choices. But even the community of Abaddon says that they are carried by Dzagonur and not the other way round. We want our identity back.
tl;dr:
Please give us a [DZ] Plate next to our name. Or anything like it. Please, please please do not take server identity away even more than you already did. You are slowly ruining what is left of a game mode we love.
I’m part of our homeland defense team (never move much out of our own borderlands), and although we did our best, you pretty much rolled over us in some locations. Seems it’s gonna be a week with long and intense fights – awesome!
We always enjoyed fighting you. I hope you find back to your former strength. Don’t give up!