I get confused on this whole GvG issue in WvW. Isn’t WvW supposed to be an " organized, large-scale battle", where people who don’t necessarily belong in a large guild can join up into bigger groups and work as a team against others doing the same? How else do you define it?
The issue is the GvG community is looking for fights on relative equal terms, without having to worry about [too much] interference in the form of outsiders jumping in, and people dropping arrow carts everywhere as is want to happen in WvW nowadays.
Do we define WvW as nothing more than a glorified karma train mode now, that will soon contain even less combat other than PvDing towers and keeps that are rarely; if ever, defended? Maybe it should be renamed PvD after this? Where small bands of people on the three servers just camp the map clockwise until they get tired, and wonder what it would be like if there were actual big battles going on around them instead?
Since the introduction of randomized matchups, this is what has been my experience, regardless of guild participation. T1 v any non-kitten beats them with superior arrow cart building ability and coverage. TC vs any non-T1, similar principals apply. As a member of TC, I cannot speak to how WvW operates elsewhere.
So, yes, regardless of the implementation of an “official” GvG mode, WvW == PvD.
Encouraging guilds to break away from WvW is going to be a mistake in the long run for WvW. I can appreciate a guilds desire to have some kind of large scale battle with people they know. But I don’t think it needs to come at the expense of the people who don’t belong in larger guilds. If guilds don’t feel they have satisfying battles in WvW right now, I think that’s a reflection of the issues within the WvW game mode itself, that need to be addressed.
I agree it is a reflection to the game mode, but also larger to the participants. To my knowledge siege-creeping and mono-blobing is more of a phenomenon particular to NA servers. With the league system, things have been getting worse. Even TC is losing guilds and people to T1 servers because they are [tangible] rewards-driven as opposed to looking for enjoyment.
This supposed band-aid might sweep some of the game issues under the rug for a while, but in the end, I think it will just make the game less about a server community, and more the haves and the have nots guild wise, until the whole game mode turns into an empty zone like what happened to the game modes in GW1. Can’t wait to see the worthless outmanned buff even more in the future, and try in vain to fight another higher population server that is spawn camping me into not bothering to play for another week.
Even the most hardcore GvGing guilds spent more time “raiding” in a WvW sense than they spent GvGing. The fact is GvGs take a couple hours at most, and most of the players interested in this sort of play style devote a lot more than a couple hours a week to the game. I do not want to make too harsh of a generalization, and can really only speak for my own experiences and observations.
TL;DR:
WvW does not have the feel of a finished game mode, and has been broken partially due to neglect by developers and partially due to [tangible] rewards-driven play by users. GW2 “GvG” is fun. This was ruined with the implementation of the new orb buff. Allowing GvGers a place to go that does not have these buffs SHOULD appease both sides of the argument. We will no longer “take queue spots” and [hopefully] interference will be limited given our own area.
EDIT: Disclaimer. This post is merely my opinion, and should not be taken to reflect the opinions of anyone else or be construed as fact.
