I very much feel this (the not feeling it, LOL).
I have been disappointed a number of times each wvw session for the past week.
Here is what I noticed: (eu side)
I see people explicitly teabagging now. This is a first for me, I can' t recall the last time I saw that on my own server. It's very disheartening.
people lashing out at eachother in chat. Not much, mind you. But you can see the frustration flow in lot's of interactions.
More then normal use of different languages. German, French. All fine by me...
But then, people start to make calls in those languages. I can't understand it. Someone links [Cragtop], or [Hills]. I asked for clarification the first few times, now I'm just "whatever man".
I do not understand why you won't use English, if you want to communicate clearly. Either use it or start learning. It will benefit you greatly (and me).
Population. I think naming the different wvw groups is counter productive, so I will just call them by color.
And just fyi, this is subjective, but fair observations.
Blue has constantly people. More then us (green), at almost every part of the day. At night (have played twice through the night) to. Not by much, as far I can tell. But when we mount 5 people on EB at 01:00, they have 15. When we try to defend our home in the morning with 8, they come with 12, + roamers. Red has completely opted out of anything resembling a defense. Why would they? I can't think of anything that counts for more, then pure population.
Commanders. And their quality. This one is tricky, because I would love to see more reliable, good commanders. And to get there, people need to practice. A few of the commanders I met seem to miss that mark (the get-better part). Most of them I see running around solo, with not a soul following him. This person seems to have no plan, no marketing for his open tag, and no coherence about what he wants to achieve that night. So I thought, 'let's wait for a commander which has at least somewhat of a following". And there was, once. 25 man as best I can recall. We tried to take SM. Commander is almost clueless, where to run, where to position, when to retreat. I was around for the sm attempt (about 20 minutes), then silently logged off.
These would be my main take-aways from this beta. I was very cautious at the start, seeing where and how it went. How people would behave, our amount of teamwork, chat use etc. It's not been a very great experience.
I feel I should put a disclaimer here; I'm aware that, plucking people from their own wvw environment (years and years of layers, knowing people, etc) and plunging them into this beta is kinda a recipe bound for disaster. Especially if it's for one week. People don't need to be nice, or get along. This is the back of my head constantly, and personally I'm a lot more optimistic this will be much better when Alliances will get implemented permanently.