Bearhugger.4326

Since PvE (not only RP) is independant of WvW, why not simply let players select their favorite activities and group them based on that? There could be tags like "Casual RP", "Hardcore RP", "Casual", "Support for New player", "Events", "Leveling", "Social", "Dungeons", "Raids", etc; you check the ones you like and the game would try to match you with players with similar preferences when there's multiple maps it could zone you in. Communities are about like-minded people, so if the server can be smart when grouping people, that could mitigate the issue. And why not help people that enjoy the same thing play together? :)

I absolutely despise MTX (including cosmetic) and I nearly never buy them, but I have a lot more patience with GW2 having them than with pay-to-play MMOs double-dipping in MTX and sub fees. I understand that it's Anet's only stream of revenue outside of expansions, and I'm glad they have enough class to avoid defiling their game with paid loot boxes, which is sadly getting rare for US game devs. I find the "anti-annoyance" permanent items like gathering tools and bank slots to be a worthy purchase if you plan to play for a long time, because they flat out make the game more fun to play. I hate accidentally wasting an Orichalcum ore on a mythril mining pick because I was trying to save gold, so I picked up the infinite gathering tools and I think it was worth it. (But I got them on a sale.) That's the only kind of MTX I buy, and once you have them all, that's it. The cosmetics actually hurt the game's popularity in my opinion though. If you're going to reward with cosmetics-only, don't put most of the new ones in the cash shop! My character is still wearing the Draconic/Heritage mix-and-match armor set she had in 2012 because the new armors that I happen to like are all in the cash shop. (Don't really like the ones added for free, sorry.) That's not going to be a popular opinion but I'd honestly rather buy LS episodes 10$ each and have all cosmetics as in-game rewards than what we have now. If each LW episode had a skin to craft on top of the extended story, that alone would be worth the asking price in my book.