Guild Wars 2

>>>I didn’t think it was as bad as they were making it out to be until last night when someone came into channel and started changing people’s permissions without even discussing it with them. They just changed multiple people’s permissions , didn’t answer when addressed and then logged out.<<<

Well, this surprises me. I never noticed anything like this when dealing with the JQ people on TS or on the message boards. They were always reasonable, kind, and helpful. Having come from one server where a few iron-fisted control freaks were in charge (TC), I can tell the difference.

As for the population linkage snafu, check out my thread about what happened with BG ANet players leaking the linkage plans early and BG not doing PPT for the week they used as statistic for the linkage… that will help you to understand why the inhouse ANet people made the mistake they made with respect to the population linkage. I hope they will be more careful about who they release info like that to in the future.

That said, I do agree that the issues are deeper than just the population linkage backfire (??? can’t think of a better word) – someone said to me yesterday “Anet should just lock servers and not allow transfers to stop all this **** Guilds” – I masked that but we all know who they are – the guilds who think they can control WvW by moving around and destroying servers – and I said “Yes, but that is one way Anet makes money.” A company has to balance the need to stay in business so we can play with the needs of a group of players in the game and, let’s face it, obviously we are not the largest group of players, by the way issues have not been addressed in the past. I am not saying this as a criticism, really – business resources go where the money comes from first and foremost.

I don’t think it’s the devs, really, DeWolfe. I think it’s player GMs on BG who are the source of the leak. And X T D, how would you know if there was an NDA or not? LOL! I guess you are the one with the crystal ball then, huh?

Most of their best fighting guilds went to TC.

LOL! 1) I don’t expect them to go on a “witch hunt.” I expect them to be more careful with info that should be covered by an NDA; and 2) I’m not a guy.

Well, I posted this while you were (pretending to be) losing, so I guess I’m a prophet, huh? And as for why I would post this and not be on JQ … it’s called “Big Picture.” Try looking at it — it’s more than just the big white screen in your local cinema. If ANet tries to fix this and then their player GMs go behind their backs and tell the servers they play on, how is that helping the game, overall? I could give a kitten about BG or JQ – what I care about is the integrity of WvW as a whole and how cheaters are affecting it.

Thank you all for posting, btw. I have achieved my purpose – maybe next time ANet tries to “fix” something, they will not tell people who have a personal stake in a particular server who are likely to leak info to them. Thanks for keeping this topic up top, guys, where (hopefully) an ANet rep will see it. I really appreciate your support.

LOL I don’t have to give you any evidence of anything. ANet can tell what happened, trust me.

And btw, I am not on JQ.

It benefited by population. Gosh you guys are dense.

The queues were the first night…haven’t been seen since. And I’m aware of the transfers and the server populations both before and after. JQ had the lowest WvW population.

Maybe if you bothered to read what I wrote you could understand it. Or not… whatever.

Well, I never got an answer to this and Blackgate is now 100K ahead of the other closest server in PPT, due to having so many people now, so … <sarcasm> WTG with those server/tier balance issues, guys! <sarcasm off>

Why did you let your player “GMs” leak the information on the server combines to Blackgate (where a lot of them are players and run around with their ANet tags on their names, while playing – yes we aren’t blind, we see you guys) well in advance of the combine, so they could rig themselves to be combined with the only server that had any real WvW population in the bottom tier by not doing any PPT during the “statistics” week? This left the real low population server in Tier 1 – Jade Quarry – in a severely disadvantaged position YET AGAIN.

If you were going to do this, why couldn’t you use REAL server population numbers in WvW – and don’t tell me you don’t have them – instead of allowing the cheaters and exploiters to once again come out on top?

You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.

I’m not even going to mention the lack of forethought in server caps which caused 100 person queues five minutes after reset on every BL …

Yes, I saw it, I played it, with many different classes. But when a thief I never even see can one-shot me from behind, THAT is way unbalanced. Oh, and btw, how does dying to someone that I never even see, from nearly full health, test any ability at all?

I didn’t say we should “quit” the game. I don’t make posts like this lightly and I have 7 level 80 characters, with fully spec’d elites, including a necro. I have played many matches before posting – I didn’t just get “rekt” in one match. This is a problem and the thing that makes me “angry” is that, every time they go to try to fix something, they seem to make it worse. :/ I wish they would at least get a test server and try some of these “fixes” out before they inflict them on us. It’s apparent they do not have one or, if they do, they need to use it more.

WTG with the thief buff – as if they weren’t strong enough already! You have totally ruined PVP now – it’s just gonna be a bunch of necros and thieves running around going forward.

I have no idea what you people are even thinking sometimes! :/