Guild Wars 2

For all the good megaserver can do for open world players, it has negatively impacted the guild I am part of. For example, running guild missions is now a hassle as opposed to the pleasant experience it was for me in the past. However, seeing more people in maps is clearly a boon for levelling players and explorers. Which is why I’d like a solution for guilds that keeps the megaserver architecture while making it more manageable to run guild missions, world events and the likes as a guild group.

I’m sure the idea has been thrown around before, but creating guild megaservers appeals to me, as a member of a large guild. Maybe have it as an option where if a member of a guild enters an area, it automatically creates a guild overflow for them. There normal players (even non guildies) can enter until the soft cap is hit. Once that is done, the hard cap slots would be reserved to guildies.

This solution is not perfect but I feel it would be a good step towards facilitating play for what is, let’s not forget it, part of the game’s name.

I was wondering about this myself, then I came across this paragraph in the Website Terms of Use:

You may not use any “deep-link,” “page-scrape,” “robot”, “spider” or other automatic device, program, algorithm, or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of the Sites or any Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Sites or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Sites. ArenaNet reserves the right to bar any such activity.

So I would personally refrain from scraping the pages until ArenaNet releases some kind of official API.

(Also sorry for the necro!)