Guild Wars 2

Not trying to be a fly in the ointment but if the upper tier/high pop servers don’t feel that server pride or server identity is a problem can you honestly say that you would enjoy playing and fighting for 2 months under the server name of the linked (lower pop) server and not the host server? Completely losing your server name and giving your glicko to the lower pop server name. Only to be placed with yet another server without your name once again.

I wholeheartedly agree with LionPride. I too have seen our server and other low population servers lose what community they had. Most people who stayed on a low pop server did so for a reason. Under the old system if we were dissatisfied we could have easily moved to a higher pop server. It may not be as much about server pride as it is play style, and a community of like minded players along with pride thrown in for good measure. Today I could move to a higher pop server if playing with blobs was what I want but I choose to stay with a low pop server.

That being said much of what I liked about the low pop servers and fighting in wvw has been destroyed by server linking. We are now at the mercy of the host server we are linked with. If the host server has a similar play style then its not too bad but if they are different then we are stuck with the straw we drew for two months of no fun for us.

I can’t say this any better than LionPride did so I will quote here

“All the smaller servers are just numbers and placed where ever Anet decides. We just fill a gap and we don’t matter. While host servers enjoy a rank , smaller server just get tossed around like a hot potato”.

I’m quite sure the high pop servers would see this a bit differently if they experience what we do with no choice in the matter and were forced to play in a different style for a server they do not belong to for the duration of the link. Then only to be thrown in with another server you do not belong to and have to fight for them.

Friday Please but 10pm est is too late to begin reset. Please make it the same time it was pre HOT or no later than 9pm est.

While it seems clear that Anet is interested in listening to the players it also seems clear the the majority want the wvw reset to remain the same on Fridays. I too would add my voice to the Friday majority. I feel that Saturday reset will negatively impact the wvw experience. It will turn most of Saturday into a dead zone in wvw and I think we will find the players who log in on Saturdays will no longer log in at least until the match changes. With the match changing on a Saturday, leaving Sunday as the first day after reset when it has not been stated the wvw population is high seems counterproductive. Please change wvw reset back to Fridays.