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Appreciate the response. It’s just a hard sell to tell someone to play for a week and then delete all of your progress to transfer. I understand the overall goal of the policy, but do not understand why the 7 day cooldown applies to new accounts or to accounts with no characters. Are they really such a danger to WvW balance?
Ah well, will just have to hope that their enthusiasm for the game remains, even after such an inauspicious start.
This seems awfully harsh. Friend basically has to wait 7 days to play your game because he picked the wrong server in the first 5 minutes. Is there somewhere that explains what the danger of a character-less account switching servers without a cooldown is, because I guess I am not seeing it.
Finally convinced a group of friends to come and play for the WvW, but have no clue if the interest will remain a week from now. They created a character just to get a sense of what character creation was like, without knowing there were such harsh consequences for picking a “home server”. They can’t even get started now, because as soon as they create characters on another server, they face a hefty transfer fee once the 7 day period is up. Just a strange policy in my opinion. Not sure how a brand new player is expected to know these policies. I certainly didn’t, and I have been playing for a long time. I have never switched servers, so I guess it must spell it out in detail somewhere I have never been.
Sorry for bumping a relatively “old” post, but the search function brought me to this, and it fit our circumstance perfectly. Making a new post seemed a bit silly.
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All of this seems pretty accurate. What part of this excerpt isn’t? I suppose one could question the part about the village “remembering you”, though even this is true in a way, as the heart vendors remember your deeds. Sure, bosses return after a period of time, but many involve a series of events leading up to their return. These events can actually be failed in many cases and the world, at least temporarily, is altered by this.
When you are done, part of your daily and monthly reward will be useless. The end. It is the price we pay for rushing to 300%, which is fairly odd imo. Buying up a ton of greens and blues so that you can find more greens and blues… OCD is a thing.
So this guy… is keeping your world (His world’s enemy) from capping points as quickly as you otherwise would… and this is considered griefing?
Huh. I thought that was sort of the point of WvW…. to keep the enemy teams from capping your towers/etc.
Rolling a character on an opposing server with the expressed intent of griefing is not “sort of the point of WvW.” If anyone thinks it is, they are likely terrible players who can’t win fairly. JQ tends to be a fun enemy, if a bit zergy. I would hope they don’t condone this guy’s efforts, as he tarnishes their whole server’s reputation.
The fact that anyone would defend this type of behavior tells me all I need to know aboot today’s XBox Live generation.
So people are asking for bans on getting killed in WvW? Are you guys kidding me pvp is pvp there should be no punishment for pvp unless your hacking. If you can’t stand dying then leave if you can’t stand being punished for choosing not to just leave and Waypoint somewhere else then leave.
I can’t understand the people who want to report things like this.
Learn to read before commenting. This isn’t about dying in PvP. This is about a player crossing over from another realm and using game mechanics to grief other players for a competitive advantage. The fact that he actually has a commander tag as well makes it worse.
I don’t rage about it. It is mostly just sad, and to be expected from the stereotypical “leet kiddies” who flock to pvp-based activities and games.
“Cross-Realming” is a significant problem, and should be dealt with. While individuals like the fellow on Blackgate are fairly rare, it certainly is an annoyance.
The real issue here is what personality flaw would cause someone to think this is fun, or funny. I understand that the anonymity of the internet brings out the worst in people, but I really pity the folks who somehow gain some sort of satisfaction from griefing other players. While I am quite sure they would never attempt this sort of behavior in real life, I am quite certain that this pathetic need for attention will manifest itself and they will suffer for it. Until then, I just imagine them as the slovenly cartoon bully from the World of Warcraft South Park episode, giggling behind their Cheeto smile and scratching themselves with greasy fingers…