A cough medicine is useless for someone who’s already expired from Tuberculosis. The changes are far too little too late in my opinion. It’s nice seeing that after months of radio silence regarding WvW, only now that WvW has legitimately hitting a critical point does Anet finally open up to feedback.
Issues that have left more than a few players dissatisfied still remain unaddressed and untouched. When was the last time we had a WvW season? For a game mode with limited rewards, what is even the purpose now of trying to win a PPT matchup anymore? Defending objectives is still a tedious and under rewarded job, and winning a week in a tier like Tier 1 is completely pointless without seasons due to the fact that win or lose, most likely your server will still face the same servers for the next few months anyways. Any competitiveness that had once existed has long since dried up. Stab changes which has been an issue that many players have complained about still remains unaddressed. The new borderland maps vs the old alpine ones, is another example of another issue that the Devs refuse to touch. Server population still remains broken as ever, and I to this day still fail to see how their system is working as intended with servers being closed and opened seemingly at random. Giving a “new” and more “precise” population rating still doesn’t help a server like Devona’s Rest which has struggled consistently with issues of mass exoduses and population. Are there even any intention to at least try to address those issues? Even something like, “We will never bring back the Alpine maps because despite poor feedback pre-launch and the majority of players disliking the maps post-launch, we spent way too much time and money to be able to justify reverting back, so suck it up buttercups”, is better than the flat out refusal to admit that the issues exists.
So now instead we’re given another placebo pill and empty promises of “big” changes coming to WvW and issues that are left unacknowledged and unaddressed. I fail to see how changes that mostly address PPT in a dying game mode where PPT is next to pointless is any meaningful change . I’ve played in WvW much too long to be once again disillusioned by any empty promises. It is long past the point where simple transparency, which probably would have sufficed a year ago, is enough.
However, the simple fact you guys have finally broken the silence hopefully is a sign that the problems in WvW have finally been noticed. Who knows, maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised, but I know for many, it’s already much too late.
. Happy Anniversary!
