Having thought about it, factions really are a thing of the past.

[DrakeWurrum]

how did they found that out

Because on my nametag was something that basically said "I play WoW" and they started talking to me about it. :O

[Simca]

I think an interesting way of doing factions (for another game) but maintaining the positive aspects of Guild Wars 2's approach would be to create two types of servers: half of the servers for one faction and half of the servers for another faction.

There are some gameplay issues to work out with that idea (starting zone availability to the opposite faction), but all in all I think it keeps the conflict between servers instead of contained on a server.

[DrakeWurrum]

I think an interesting way of doing factions (for another game) but maintaining the positive aspects of Guild Wars 2's approach would be to create two types of servers: half of the servers for one faction and half of the servers for another faction.

There are some gameplay issues to work out with that idea (starting zone availability to the opposite faction), but all in all I think it keeps the conflict between servers instead of contained on a server.

That would be an interesting way of doing it, actually. I do have to wonder how they'd work out the different zones and whatnot. Perhaps it would have to be based on the idea of alternate universes/timelines or whatever, with everybody using the same areas anyways?

[Glytch]

I think an interesting way of doing factions (for another game) but maintaining the positive aspects of Guild Wars 2's approach would be to create two types of servers: half of the servers for one faction and half of the servers for another faction.

There are some gameplay issues to work out with that idea (starting zone availability to the opposite faction), but all in all I think it keeps the conflict between servers instead of contained on a server.

the charr vs everyone else?

death to the charr

[Deleted]

Banding together into groups, painting other groups as bad guys, and massacring them on sight is basic human psychology.

Without factions to provide such division lines, players will use servers as such division lines.

E.g. "Omg, you're not from Sorrow's Furnace? You must suck at pvp"

well at least they won't cry that arenanet prefers 1 server over the others

[Ibbi]

The whole idea that everyone's gonna flock to Sorrow's Furnace for PvP isn't going to fly... Ain't nobody in their right mind is gonna sit in a hour queue just to get into WvW.

[Glytch]

The whole idea that everyone's gonna flock to Sorrow's Furnace for PvP isn't going to fly... Ain't nobody in their right mind is gonna sit in a hour queue just to get into WvW.

who says its just for wvw? might just want to hang out with good pvpers for sPvP

[Rife]

Main reason I dislike factions is because it makes the server feel more dead than it really is by splitting the community in half.

Exactly this. Servers can only hold X amount of players. Half of those players are useless to the other half in everything except PvP and in most cases that PvP suffers because one side dominates the other or outnumbers the other.

Then developers impliment same faction PvP matches which gets extremely boring (like SWTOR and 90% of all PvP matches are Huttball for months) and thus the faction model is now useless from a lore standpoint which leaves only the downsides.

Thing of the past? Yes.

[Delias]

who says its just for wvw? might just want to hang out with good pvpers for sPvP

Can you go to the mists while visiting another server? If so, there's no reason to roll on an unofficial 'pvp server' for anything BUT WvW.

[Glytch]

Can you go to the mists while visiting another server? If so, there's no reason to roll on an unofficial 'pvp server' for anything BUT WvW.

im sure you're able to

my point is people will flock to that server as a meeting place. its far easier to network when you live on that world and not visiting

and even if wvw isnt their prime gameplay mode its also good for gettign to know people

tho i plan to make friends in hotjoin... hopefully

im bad at makign friends