Any kind of reward system promotes unhealthy gameplay. You have dudes AFK in VineWrath, dunno about sPvP but some folks might be complaining already in this thread.
I dislike a lot the participation system because you’re penalized if you’re in a zerg that spend most of time playing tactical than just mindlessly killing stuff or capping supply camps. But i don’t wanna anet to blew away the rewards so we can have only the “player that i think should be playing here with me” type of player, i think the pips really helps with WvW population problems in low tier servers even if most of people are there to be molested by thiefs or another guy that is a pro roamer or something.
This is a grind game anyway, none like to spend time (which is a precious resource) doing unprofitable things.
In the end the WvW rewards made me and probably a lot of folks try to get better and learn how to at least do some nice skirmishes with folks.I’m just collecting resources in wvw waiting for the xpac so i can really focus on some class to WvW or maybe even do a server change to a more populated server.
