At no point did I, or would I have, said “Fair competition” WvW is not intended to be “fair”. There are servers with more people, there are servers with better organizations and that will always be the case. This competition will be about showing how your world can do over a defined period of time, against a variety of opponents. SPvP is the part of our game that aims for a completely level playing field. WvW would never be able to match that goal.
It amuses me that through sheer stubbornness you can so adamantly stick to such a terrible opinion. You are trying to hard to promote competition, you bring in PPT, you try and make the game about PPT, you make match ups that have winners, you add a glicko system, you divide the servers into leagues. But at no point whatsoever did you consider trying to make WvW, because for some odd reason you think it shouldnt be.
Why exactly is there competition in a format that isnt fair? If the objective is to “play for fun” then why is it you are trying to design wvw more about winning than about actually having fun? You make no attempts to dilute zerg (buffing an AC with a 50 man cap in order to promote people to run with more than 50 is not fixing zerg). You make no attempts at balancing any of the classes with respect to wvw (hi ranger). You make no attempt to make game mechanics enjoyable (most sieges are long drawn out battles of boredom and turtling).
Every patch you do, to try and fix match making, is simply a band aid to the core problem, that no match making in the world can make a fair match up out of servers with such a disparity in their wvw populations. Even now your currently designed system has the r13 server matched with the r1 server in EU. You said that match ups would stabalize over months and yet they never did. Basically you were wrong. We told you that you would be wrong when you launched the system, but you were stuborn, apparently Anet must know more magically, yet you know nothing. All the hidden data you collect could not help you, cause the data would show balanced match ups arent possible, but somehow you see this as fine.
Does it not worry you that such a large majority of WvW players stopped carying about who wins? Stopped caring about points? Isnt that a testament to how flawed your system is when there is a huge fracture in the WvW community, a portion of which has no care whatsoever to play the system you are forcing on us.
I might actually care to play to win, if winning was based on any merit of skill and execution. But why should I supply starve a server when I go sleep and they rack up 1700 supply + waypoints overnight etc.
The WvW structure of winning is flawed at the core, and your statements only reflect that you dont understand this at a fundamental level. Nobody can be bothered “proving” themselves against servers who win over population. Being the underdog once or twice is fun, but the objective of the game should never be to show how strong an underdog you are, it should be about realistically winning….
VoTF may be widely regarded as an open field or GvG guild, but I actually do want to play to win. It is simply that you provide me with a game format where winning means nothing and is based on no merits of my own, so over time I simply learned to ignore it. But there was a time we pulled 12h+ raids daily on NA servers the first 5 months to try and keep up ppt. I have experienced the side of the game that plays to win, its simply completely broken and you have done nothing to fix any of it in over a year.
Anyway, some JQ leaders really want MERC, for real though. Some… Asian JQ leaders.
2 people from the same server, different views.
SoR cant help one another now? If you want real open field fights with perfectly even numbers you might as well set up GvGs. WvW isn’t fair, and never will be. Get over it. Deal with it.