Guild Wars 2

Aralura.5129:

It’s to the point were this week I won’t even bother entering WvW even during Aus primetime. And I know that’s the case for a lot of people.

And this is what is going to kill the game, RUIN aren’t the problem, they are just a symptom.

The real issue is that ANet have to make changes to the way WvWvW and match-ups work otherwise for servers that aren’t in an even bracket several scenarios will play out:

1 – everyone transfers to other servers to get a more even match-up, which will only cause lopsided match-ups on other servers and exacerbate queues whilst at the same time killing the servers they transferred off
2 – people just stop playing the game

One fix that people are asking for (stopping free transfers) actually wont fix the issue as the games will still be lopsided so scenario 2 above will just play out.

ANet need to allow entire guilds to transfer off servers at once through an opt-in whilst making changes to how WvWvW matches are balanced when you are in a lopsided bracket (ie since ET control most of the map vs IoJ and SoS they shouldn’t get bonuses, there should be negative consequences to allow the game to balance up).

The whole thing just looks poorly thought through and I’m not sure for all their beta testing ANet actually ran an internal lopsided WvWvW to see what the impact would be, seems like poor planning.

Having the same issue on Isle of Janthir. The game is unplayable, actions take seconds to register.

Diag attached. Lots of packet loss.