People have been complaining about server population for litterally years and now something is done and ppl are complaining about how they liked their small communities. We cant have it both ways. You cant enjoy small communities and wish wvw wasnt dead.
Basically extinction of small server communities was inevitable. The writing has been on the wall for years. Why keep servers going if their communities dont care enough to populate wvw?
My only advice to small population servers is learn to command large groups, go stake your claim in a bl, carve out your corner of the world and call for help if needed. There are small scale fights, tasks, and wven roaming will re emerge. I would just ask we give this sometime to get better but as far as small server identities we just have to accept their demise…or I mean down sizing…
The biggest complaints, which are not just limited to here, are that those on the smaller servers did not ask to be put into the generally different playstyle of the top tiers. If they had wanted that, they would have moved to them before. What counted as ‘dead’ for some was quite action packed for others.
Difference is, there is really nowhere to go to get away from it now. In effect, except for the servers that were smack in the middle of rankings, this has been the merging of generally opposite playstyles. Those that prefer small scale fighting now directly compete with zergs on both sides. Yes, there will likely still be times where those that prefer small scale can still get the fights they enjoy without being steamrolled by a zerg a bit too often, but will those times be when they can actually play? Perhaps they are allergic to zergs.
It boils down to choice. In all honesty, I think it would have been better overall, although there would have been more outcry due to more people being affected, to just do away with servers as we have known them. Instead, it was opted to not severely affect the most populated servers, and turn all the lower servers on their head. Some will enjoy it, but those that wanted nothing to do with the upper tier wvw, just had their entire wvw experience changed.
The effects of this are still just beginning. What happens when the honeymoon is over? Or the divorce happens of link changes or doing away with the idea altogether after the players that still go in wvw players get used to it? It is being called a beta afterall… but I think it’s here to stay regardless of what has been said. It is clear that the preference of many players were not taken into account, that primarily only the upper tiers had real attention. And it appears that is how Anet wants WvW played.
You cannot deny that some will stop going in as a result of this, and others may choose not to come back to the game. I know of some, and it isn’t just talk. I also know a few that seem to love the idea of this despite prior talk of preferring small scale. One for sure will complain later though after the honeymoon phase, but I digress.
