Guild Wars 2

Both Piken Square (EU) and Tarnished Coast (NA) are almost the unoffical RP hubs of GW2. Every RP guild basically resides on these two communities and the fear now resides in the fact that suddenly we can be getting grouped with people form other servers (not just our friends and guilds)to balance out these news maps in the name of megaservers. That’s scary because as RPers we have stuck essentially to these few servers in the EU and NA in order to assure we have tight nit communities and no trolling to deal with. Now we’re looking at the very real risk of RP harassment and trolling suddenly.

I understand why ANet is making this change and I’d support it, IF capital cities were excluded.

little ceasar.9254:

RP an exodus to a lower tier.

Why? Why should the RPers be made to suffer? We’ve built a wonderful community and server. Hell Tarnished Coast is consistently also one of the best WvW servers as well.

Xehara.8537:

Firstly, thank you for all the work you’ve done on the updates and trying to improve the game. It’s greatly appreciated even if the community sometimes has issues showing that appreciation. With every update so far there have been people for and against. This announcement in particular is concerning for the Role Play community and while we aren’t the target audience despite this being described as a Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, we are very loyal customers.

As such I am starting this thread with the hope of allowing the roleplay community a place to voice their concerns and possibly get some answers. For those responding, please remember to abide by the forum rules and especially remember to reference the “How to give feedback” thread.

My Questions
1. How will this affect the people I’ve blocked? Will they be shuffled to another map unless someone in my guild has them unblocked?

2. How much of a change in population are we bound to see for major cities and the world?

As role players we’ve had to deal with trolling issues in other games where people stand on your character to break immersion, activate abilities, dance on you, spam emotes and basically do anything they can to actively disrupt the role play experience for no reason aside from this is the internet and lawlwhynot. Those actions, aside from the emote spamming, are technically not reportable offenses as is. If massively blocked players are going to be weeded out then this /may/ solve the problem. If this is not the case, then there remains a strong fear that you are essentially removing or discouraging the role play portion of the game by adding this feature and eliminating the point of “unofficial” rp servers.

100x this. As an RPer these are all of my fears and concerns wrapped up more elegantly than I have put together so far. Can we please get a Dev response on this?

I am actually pretty disappointed in this action. I really think instanced “story” areas like Salma should be open for players as they are not only fun to explore but offer a huge immersion for players that do prefer to Roleplay. I would hope ANet would reconsider this.

Yo’ momma’s IQ is so low I told her PI R Squared and she replied, no Pi Is Round.

My mesmer is a Human male named Karoush Santagar. An Istani decedent, he can trace his family history back to the Elonian merchants of the Santagar Trading Co. (If you haven’t caught on, I RP my mesmer).