Anet sure loves free transfers.

Originally posted by Aerowyn
Rall is dominating as well right now pretty similar numbers.. not sure why the free transfers are still going doesn't really make much sense if they want to balance the WvW matches... anyone know if they commented on this on the official forums?

Not sure how they could fix it though, like if they cut it off right now everyone would be trapped on JQ, or the servers dominating in the other brackets thanks to transfers.

This snowballs so badly because WvW is needed for map completion, so when you're getting dominated people just transfer, also it's not fun for WvW guilds to be stuck in a position like we're in now, so they also follow the train and transfer. Leaving us with 2 weeks of being stomped on and having no chance of finishing our world completion. I have two people in guild sitting at 98% map completion who can't finish the last bit thanks to WvW in it's current state.

Originally posted by Pivotelite

Originally posted by Aerowyn
Rall is dominating as well right now pretty similar numbers.. not sure why the free transfers are still going doesn't really make much sense if they want to balance the WvW matches... anyone know if they commented on this on the official forums?

Not sure how they could fix it though, like if they cut it off right now everyone would be trapped on JQ, or the servers dominating in the other brackets thanks to transfers.

 

This snowballs so badly because WvW is needed for map completion, so when you're getting dominated people just transfer, also it's not fun for WvW guild to be stuck in position like we're in now, so they also follow the train and transfer. Leaving us with 2 weeks of being stomped on and having no chance of finishing our world completion.

hmm not sure.. but honestly the free transfer were only supposed to be temporary while population stabilized out more.. right now i guess they just need to give a couple day notice that they are closing the free transfers and just do it.. 

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by Pivotelite

Originally posted by Aerowyn
Rall is dominating as well right now pretty similar numbers.. not sure why the free transfers are still going doesn't really make much sense if they want to balance the WvW matches... anyone know if they commented on this on the official forums?

Not sure how they could fix it though, like if they cut it off right now everyone would be trapped on JQ, or the servers dominating in the other brackets thanks to transfers.

 

This snowballs so badly because WvW is needed for map completion, so when you're getting dominated people just transfer, also it's not fun for WvW guild to be stuck in position like we're in now, so they also follow the train and transfer. Leaving us with 2 weeks of being stomped on and having no chance of finishing our world completion.

hmm not sure.. but honestly the free transfer were only supposed to be temporary while population stabilized out more.. right now i guess they just need to give a couple day notice that they are closing the free transfers and just do it.. 

We just have to hope the big WvW guilds decide to make the right choice and try to go to varying servers to balance it out.

Originally posted by Aerowyn

hmm not sure.. but honestly the free transfer were only supposed to be temporary while population stabilized out more.. right now i guess they just need to give a couple day notice that they are closing the free transfers and just do it.. 

This.

WvW match-ups will nenver be balanced until the populations on each server stabilize, which is impossible as long as free server transfers are available.

Anyone know the rationale behind keeping the transfers free for this long?

I've not really gotten THAT into WvWvW, but I can see this is pretty disheartening for people who are.  I was in quite a big guild which was mainly WvW, and they all left for Jade Quarry after being beaten for one week.  So lame.

Agree though, can't understand why the transfers are still up.  

Originally posted by fundayz

Originally posted by Aerowyn

hmm not sure.. but honestly the free transfer were only supposed to be temporary while population stabilized out more.. right now i guess they just need to give a couple day notice that they are closing the free transfers and just do it.. 

This.

WvW match-ups will nenver be balanced until the populations on each server stabilize, which is impossible as long as free server transfers are available.

Anyone know the rationale behind keeping the transfers free for this long?

Needs to be more to it than that. What needs to happen is they give notice that transfers will shift from us being able to go to any server.. To certainly servers can only be transfered OFF of and not to them. 

Originally posted by Aerowyn
Rall is dominating as well right now pretty similar numbers.. not sure why the free transfers are still going doesn't really make much sense if they want to balance the WvW matches... anyone know if they commented on this on the official forums?

Free server  transfers were left in because Guesting feature was not available at launch as they hoped.

Can't wait for it to end, it ruins WvW somewhat, there ARE guilds that send spies to opposing servers, I know my own guild does it.

They need to announce the end of free transfers ahead of time and soon. They need to then continue the weekly match ups long enough to aquire meaningful ranking stats. (I'd re-weight the current rankings so that they weigh a lot less than match ups after the end of free transfers). When entire alliances of PvP guilds are transfering together to deliberately destroy the ranking system, that should be a wake up call.

They really, really, like yesterday, need to implement a system that locks transfers out of WvW entirely for the current ongoing match up and the next full match up. If the roving PvP guilds had to sit out two cycles, we probably wouldn't see the BS we are seeing now.

They also need to get PvE Guesting working asap. I'm going to assume that the lack of Guesting is a big reason they are still allowing free server transfers, as with out server transfers, there is currently no way to join friends on other servers for game play.

24/7 RvR only works in the minds of arenanet devs. 

It has no chance at all in the real world.

A new low...

I figured out the other problem Anet devs seem oblivious of...Orb of power buff, in each of the borderlands a particular keep grants an orb of power when in your control, each orb gives +5% health and +40 to all stats...so 3 orbs and it's 15% health and +120 to all stats, in Zerg vs Zerg that is a gigantic difference and basically is a kick to those servers who are down, there's really no way for us to fight outnumbered and outbuffed. I don't see how that buff hasn't been removed a long time ago to prevent these impossible WvW battles, basically once you're down, you're down for good.

Not to mention we're also out maneuvered, them having everything gives them more waypoints and they can get to wherever we are quickly and when we die...well we arent getting back before what we had is lost.

WvW needs a lot of re-working.

In the above situation Stormbluff and Henge of Denravi need to work together... That's why 3 sided PvP works so well. I can remember many times in Daoc where Hibs and Mids would team up against the Albs in the frontiers. It almost always happened that way. 

In particular since transfers are still free either of them should be sending over representatives to coordinate things between the servers. This could work out in their favor and they could really do damage to Jade Quarry.

Still, things suck sometimes. It's times like this especially in something as silly as a game we see the low side of humanity.

For whole PvP guilds to leave a server because they get beat is bullsh..t.  If they can't think of creative ways to win they just follow the easy way. As if winning WvW actually means anything.