Hello All,
There are a couple of reasons for the change to reset time. One is for the overall quality of the game. The last few years we have been careful to not disrupt the WvW reset time but this has at times made it difficult for our team to address issues during reset day. This change will give our team an extra day of the week that they can use to respond to issues that may occur with WvW or any other area of the game if it is necessary. In the early days we wanted reset to be during a weekday to ensure we had people available to monitor the game at reset time, but at this point we have seen the ongoing stability of World vs. World and resetting on a weekday is no longer necessary.
Another reason is the emergent gameplay that has come from reset. It has become one of the most exciting times for WvW and we would really love for more players to have the opportunity to experience it. We have many more players logging in on Saturday than on Friday which means with this change many more people will be available to experience the rush of claiming objectives for their world during reset.
However, given the concerns posted here we will be moving the Saturday reset to earlier in the day to give most players the majority of the day to enjoy the start of the new match. Immediately after launch the new time will be 11am PDT / 2pm EDT (6 pm UTC) for NA and 11am BST / 12 pm CEST (10 am UTC) for EU. Keep in mind that the following week with the end of Daylight Savings Time / Summer Time the reset times will be pushed even earlier to 10am PST/ 1pm EST and 10am GMT / 11am CET.
Thank you for your feedback. We realize that no time we pick is going to work for everyone but this change is going to benefit even more players overall while at the same time giving us a little more breathing room to improve the quality of the game during the week.
Thanks,
John
You just killed reset for OCX and SEA for no reason whatsoever. No one in the WvW community asked for a reset time change. You changed it to suit your own self-serving agenda with no consideration or care for how it would effect the entire playerbase that has come to love and enjoy the reset tradition.
You self-obsessed narcissists care nothing for the health of WvW, you claim the reset time change gives you a chance to have an additional day to work on changes for WvW but none of us are buying that. What changes? You mean you’ll be actually updating WvW? You expect us to believe with that arbitrary magical ONE day you will accomplish anything meaningful for WvW? How about some of the changes the community has been justifiably asking for from DAY 1 like fixes for map exploits, banning of hackers and siege griefers, reworking the glicko and scoring systems just to name a few. Or hang on, how about more accurately ANY update for WvW whatsoever? You’ve let WvW rot too long. You throw out events like golem rush and think "LOL omg this golem is fast! the door melts! wvwers will luv this XD " and when the community justifiably comes out with the pitchforks, where are you to be found? No where in sight. As always.
Get your developers to actually play WvW so that you can see the problems first hand. Start making decisions that are in touch with the community and set things right.
Don’t change reset.
