VAHNeunzehnsechundsiebzig. Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 Arenanet, you ignored the warnings and went ahead with that 'restructuring'. You killed the servers. But why is there no even running? A little bonus week to sooth the pain? To get people playing? At least a little wxp+magic find boost? But no. You took away our homes and gave nothing. Which is sad. Sad and cheap. 9 5 2 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 (edited) i think servers were pretty much dead when everyone kept bandwagoning to the most populated server every few months? after that was going on for years, i honestly doubt there were many players left who had never once changed a server. Edited June 14 by SoftFootpaws.9134 8 2 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 29 minutes ago, SoftFootpaws.9134 said: i think servers were pretty much dead when everyone kept bandwagoning to the most populated server every few months? after that was going on for years, i honestly doubt there were many players left who had never once changed a server. Been piken square since release but then again only dabbled in wvw not a hardcore player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenesisII.1540 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Because it's wvw, minimal amount of effort. Look at the cheap title hand out, yeah we don't even care where you been, just pick whatever. Because it's anet, they don't celebrate unless they need to sell you something. Warclaw coming to pve in two months, quick let's shove out a pack of warclaw skins! 🤷♂️ 12 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArchonWing.9480 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Seems kinda weird they don't have an event to alert players that something happens like bonus reward track or something. I am guessing this is because they update on Tuesday which also means if anything's broken before then, then well good luck! And their news page really leaves much to be desired, it's like buried in the 2nd page. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakob.7210 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 our commander from drakkar (early morning shift) just left .. he is out of mood 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeWolfe.2174 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 7 hours ago, VAHNeunzehnsechundsiebzig. said: But why is there no even running? Yes, I said exactly that in map chat. Why wasn't this an event with the "Call of War" buff? 6 hours ago, SoftFootpaws.9134 said: doubt there were many players left who had never once changed a server. Never moved my accounts off JQ since launch. I had a lot of World Pride and truly enjoyed being there. You'd be surprised how many expressed such sentiments right before reset tonight. 7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teleoceras.1298 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 10 hours ago, DeWolfe.2174 said: Yes, I said exactly that in map chat. Why wasn't this an event with the "Call of War" buff? Never moved my accounts off JQ since launch. I had a lot of World Pride and truly enjoyed being there. You'd be surprised how many expressed such sentiments right before reset tonight. I agree, Fort Aspenwood also had a lot of server pride and all the people I knew over the last almost 12 years is now scattered to the winds. WvW is now dead to me. I'm glad Warclaw is getting an upgrade for PvE since that is all I'm doing now. 4 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuks.8241 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 We had an event but it was player driven and on server Discord. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VAHNeunzehnsechundsiebzig. Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 18 hours ago, SoftFootpaws.9134 said: i think servers were pretty much dead when everyone kept bandwagoning to the most populated server every few months? after that was going on for years, i honestly doubt there were many players left who had never once changed a server. I played wvw only on one server. Like most of my guild. My server had a pretty core of people who never moved, or only moved once and then stayed. 5 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urd.8306 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 And you never thought it would be great to make an Alliance or Guild with those players? If you have, you lost nothing. 3 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 (edited) i understand what alot of players here are saying, but you have to understand, just because you had a good experience doesn't mean everyone had a good experience. there's a reason restructuring has been requested for years by the community, and its because the server system was ruining it for everyone else. i don't think you can't play a pvp game mode where every fight its just a full squad overrunning everything on all the maps while you barely have a full party. i used to play wvw almost exclusively up until about 2021 (besides the story and map completion in pve), and i'm an old ehmery bay commander, and i can tell you that as the years went on and bandwagoning got worse and worse, the game mode slowly degraded into the worst fights i'd ever seen.. by the end of it, it wasn't uncommon to be spawn camped literally every day on eternal battlegrounds, and have nothing but a single camp in your borderlands . i also feel like there was nothing you could do except consider changing servers yourself, worsening the problem? for the first time in years i will return to wvw, and i know i will enjoy it. Edited June 15 by SoftFootpaws.9134 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeWolfe.2174 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 8 minutes ago, SoftFootpaws.9134 said: by the end of it, it wasn't uncommon to be spawn camped literally every day on eternal battlegrounds, They added a 5th tier and spread players out even more. After this week, there's likely going to be less content than when you stopped playing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evenge.4067 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Fewer and fewer people have shown server loyalty over the years anyway, so just let it go. ...let it goooo, let it goooo,.....let it goooooooo.... 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VAHNeunzehnsechundsiebzig. Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 4 hours ago, urd.8306 said: And you never thought it would be great to make an Alliance or Guild with those players? If you have, you lost nothing. I had and it is not the problem/not the solution to the problem. I was not talking about the wisdom of removing servers (there is none) or the advantages of alliances (there are none) but ANET not adding an event for this occasion. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One more for the road.8950 Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 There has been plenty of events though. And as they should be, they were hosted by the server and guild communities. People that cry about server pride and server communities but didn't organize anything themselves probably didn't have as much of it as they thought? There's been drunk events, golem events, nostalgia events, giveaway events, nonstop-commanding events, mingling in keep events, photo op events and what have you. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T G.7496 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 It seemed to me that those players for whom server identity remained important created organised or impromptu events of their own to mark the moment. I think that was sufficient. I acknowledge the loss of community a lot of these players have experienced, and at times it has been painful witnessing their pain. I am sorry for their loss. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nidome.1365 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 On 6/15/2024 at 12:23 AM, VAHNeunzehnsechundsiebzig. said: Arenanet, you ignored the warnings and went ahead with that 'restructuring'. You killed the servers. But why is there no even running? A little bonus week to sooth the pain? To get people playing? At least a little wxp+magic find boost? But no. You took away our homes and gave nothing. Which is sad. Sad and cheap. They didn't just kill the servers, they replaced it with something that was worse. Population imbalance in this is far worse than anything I saw under the old system. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisWhitey.9076 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 A few servers had their own events hosted on discord. Yeah not perfect but sometimes when the devs don't see the sentiment of the old you gotta do it yourself. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisWhitey.9076 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 2 hours ago, Nidome.1365 said: They didn't just kill the servers, they replaced it with something that was worse. Population imbalance in this is far worse than anything I saw under the old system. I said this in another post but good chance to mention again that a bunch of people came back for this which the algorithm could not account for hours played for someone with 0 hours so balance is going to be a mess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Calaway.9718 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 On 6/15/2024 at 12:23 AM, VAHNeunzehnsechundsiebzig. said: But why is there no event running? I remember when GW2 came out it sold some 10 million copies in its first year, every WvW map had a queue on and players were demanding Anet to "fix it." The fix came in the form of an overflow map for WvW, Edge of the Mists, but they didn't just drop it, they actually tied it to the living world story running at the time, there was a launch trailer even... Anet used to go above and beyond, good times. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeolus.3615 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 I was expecting that Scarlet could blow up the wvw maps (and the servers ._.) that would fix more the game than actually the dev's touching wvw and balance towards wvw. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedix.1986 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 18 hours ago, urd.8306 said: And you never thought it would be great to make an Alliance or Guild with those players? If you have, you lost nothing. Anet did not yet provide an alliance option. It hasn't rolled out. Instead, they only gave a 6th guild slot, that takes up to 500 players. Too few for the server community comprised of guilds with different styles + roamers. Which is why the shifting-sands-every-4-weeks model sucks. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkpile.7439 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 (edited) What happened? Bandwagoners were so cocky before alliance. Told me that they have big alliance where even hunt members could join. Kind of desperate if you ask me. 🤣 Edited June 16 by Junkpile.7439 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bq pd.2148 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 1 hour ago, hedix.1986 said: Anet did not yet provide an alliance option. It hasn't rolled out. Instead, they only gave a 6th guild slot, that takes up to 500 players. Too few for the server community comprised of guilds with different styles + roamers. Which is why the shifting-sands-every-4-weeks model sucks. and yet i think 500 is too many, if they are mostly players with quite a bit above average experience and hours/week in WvW. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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