1. Terrible class balancing.
2. Terrible population balancing.
3. No shits given by anet about content.
= dying game mode only propped up by a lack of alternatives.
Nobody wants to fight WSR because they have 3x the population of any other server with the possible exception of FOW. WSR is the MAG of EU, everyone is gonna log off and let them enjoy their queues.
It should be the other way around, transfers open at the end of a "season" - last week of relink, which counts towards server pop in relink, then are closed for the following 3 weeks.
Every single server is garbage. Save your gems and see if alliances changes thing up.
Servers that fight well and aren't overstacked inevitably become stacked the next link...and the cycle continues.
Assigned Team: Stonefall
Original home shard: Deso
WvW Guild selected: Gathering of Imposters [SUS]
Placed on Stonefall instead of Fortune's Vale (or even Titan's Staircase, where my other guild is).
It doesn't, because there aren't enough players in the queue 95% of the day for it to form even teams. It was bad back in the early seasons, but it's really, really, really bad now.
Ranking is bad because the population is too small for the matchmaking system to work. This results in lopsided games that make the population drop further. The game mode isn't on life support - it's already dead.