Guild Wars 2

Server mergers are a staple of the RvR game format. It always comes to pass.

WvW has always been a diluted RvR format, relative to past and future RvR games. Server loyalty (in the sense that you would refuse to or dislike playing with another server, just on principle alone) is a fool’s errand. Guild loyalty is what ultimately matters.

WvW is a hybrid. It mixes heavily with the ideas that GW2 and GW1 PvP and GvG borrowed from, and its map design is clearly templating the MOBA “lanes” concept.

The WvW leaderboard is a relatively static structure. The matchmaking is there to move competitors but intentionally does it slowly.

If you can’t see what ArenaNet intends to do with this linkage system, then you need to review their details again and think it through.

Links will shuffle.

Servers can have no partners.

Servers can have multiple partners.

Host servers have significantly reduced population caps.

Well jiminy my glickos.

FearedbytheGods.8617:

Virtute.8251:

Would it hurt your assumption

No, cause I’d be assuming you’re straight up.

You still sound upset.

I am. This rash, it just won’t go away, and the doctor gave an -itis diagnosis.

Next up: account infractions for unoriginal “content” and reposts… but you still can’t reply to the original content!

Good points, Archon.

I would add that white knighting ANet in player feedback/complaint threads is not constructive in the form that coglin showed, which I’ve seen repeated ad nauseam these past three years.

ANet deserves to be vouched for, and sometimes they take it upon themselves. What we don’t need is players attacking each other on behalf of ANet for some emotive sense of obligation to a krewe they adore.

Skeletor.9360:

Scrum is just a new buzz in development.

It’s not new buzz. It hit buzz level 16 years ago.

Skeletor.9360:

They simply need to list what people want and let them vote on the biggest issues.

Do they want more content?
Do they want bug fixes?
Do they like huge zerg blobs?
Do they like siege decay?
Do they want a “report hacker” option?

Really just take some polls.
THEN figure out what you are going to do.

The problem is they don’t even ask. They just work on some kitten they want to work on.

A Scrum process that incorporates the end-user as a stakeholder in both production and product outcomes is one which addresses exactly the sort of things you’ve listed there.

ANet uses an insular Scrum process that treats all of their actions and thoughts as tightly guarded intellectual properties.