Diku, do you know what NATO is?
Is this a trick question?
They’re like the Mall Cops of the World because they’re thrown together & expected to perform like a well established military power from a single country?
At least that’ s what I think, but I’m sure they’re highly professional soldiers of combat.
It’s their thrown together aspect & different chains of command that tie back to a well established military power from a single country that muddies the water for them.
It’s kind of like EotM actually when viewed this way. Balance of power is still dictated by their single country that can pull the plug on their soldier’s participation. Each single country wears the pants when it comes to their soldier’s involvement from what I understand. I might be wrong though…so you might want to check that.
NATO is an alliance of countries sworn to protect each other.
Alliances work.
Having more people to accomplish the mission is not bad. It’s actually good.
You still have your side/friends, but then you come together with more sides and make new friends.
Many of you are still stuck in the gw2 “golden era” wvw mindset… That time is long gone.
What’s happened over the three years? Players keep moving up to top tiers when they can… That’s the first indication of a problem.
Second, if you put every single server into a tournament, WE CAN ALL PREDICT what rank each server will be for the most part. The winners and losers are predictable by the numbers and past experiences… That is not healthy.
Many of you are not looking at the big picture with regard to wvw and what it needs.
1. You need bodies and those bodies to be in as equal numbers as possible for competition. YOU, Diku, brought up sport references. NFL TEAMS START WITH EQUAL PLAYERS EVERY SINGLE GAME… Right??? There ya go and that’s why mega is needed.
2. You need more incentive than “server pride”. You need decent rewards for players. NFL players get paid millions of dollars to play. They don’t play for free, and state or hometown pride does not come for free… Athletes get paid to carry this pride… Players need rewards to want to carry that banner.
3. Players want to feel a sense of progression as well outside of ppt and ranking. NFL teams invest billion and billions of dollars in their players. Training, medical, camps, coaches… All in efforts to make players better… This in turn makes the players better individually FIRST, then they teach them how to be a great team with all the other individual players..
That’s perfectly fine for some of you to fight for and cling to “server pride”. That’s fine that some of you can play without rewards. That’s fine some of you can stand on a tower for 12 hours defending. That’s all fine… MOST players throughout video game history do NOT care about anything pvp first of all. MOST players want to have fun, and bigger and more equal numbers is more fun more often. MOST players want some kind of decent rewards and feel some individual progress.
Some of you can cling to your “golden days” ways, but there is a reality here that some of you are not facing…
Players are dropping like flies out of wvw and not being replaced at an equal rate.
You always use the 10% rule with regard to pvp in mmos. For every 100 players assume that 10 will try wvw/pvp. Out of those 10 take 5 to wvw and 5 to spvp. Out of those the numbers keep filtering out…
Now unless YOU come up with a plan to put 10,000,000 players in this game so we have 1,000,000 millions players to work with for pvp stuff, segregated/individual servers WILL NOT WORK.
Get World of Warcraft and League of Legends population numbers then we can have this “globe” conversation. I and Anet would love to have this conversation with you, but the REALITY is… megaserver/alliance type stuff is the only solution to the NEED right now. Y’all may not like it, but it is what it is. Sorry.
All roles still exist in the megaserver/alliance model too. Commanding is still needed. Scouting is still needed. Offense is still needed. Defense is still needed. Havok/Disruption is still needed. Leadership and coordination is still needed… But instead of just your server, you now have NATO members to help you too.
You DON’T lose ANYTHING with mega/alliance/whatever… You gain MORE period.
Lastly, if you only care about your server then that means you DON’T care about wvw as a whole, or all the other players outside of your little happy circles. That’s not being a team player, that’s being selfish… I’ve been sitting on a tier one server for a long time, yet I can see wvw as a WHOLE. I could just sit pretty and be like… “Hey what’s the problem? I’m all good here in tier one…”.
So while intent from some of you is good, genuine and sincere, your mentality is backwards… Start thinking more about the other servers and the spirit of wvwvw, stop thinking in isolated ways.
