I don't get all these people who claim to be serious WvW players yet weren't paying attention to this. I've known for months that Beta testing was coming, and a couple of weeks about this one. I wanted to play with friends too. So what did we do? Well we made a new guild for it, we all joined that and ticked the box to make it our Beta alliance guild. Easy peasy poof, we were all together.
I mean how hard is it???
Beta is just that, Beta. It's a test, It's a way to find bugs, a way to figure what needs to be fixed and fix it. If you don't like bugs, don't play Beta. But saying you're going to uninstall the game because 1) you weren't paying attention or 2) something that was a Beta wasn't perfect is childish.
To Anet: I am glad you guys are finally paying attention to WvW; we've felt ignored for a long time. Most of us know this will be a process and are willing to wait and see how it progresses. I hope you continue with your tests. We need new life in WvW.
With how often people pay to switch servers I don't see how that's true, especially since a lot of worlds become closed. With alliance you'll just have to wait until the next matchup to join your friends.. Also as long as you've added people to your friend list or stuck with them in discord you should be able to find familiar faces. Only thing that would prevent joining *some* of them (because I can guarantee not everyone will be in the same alliance) is when an alliance has maxed out. Also I agree, an 80 person alliance won't work. Guilds hold more players than that; how can you have a working alliance system that holds less than a guild? Personally I think 500 is just right.
