Wow...been a long time since I last checked this thing.

I'm surprised people still post on this sub thread.

Well anyways back to GW2 WvW.

I read up top that people are concern for SoR's current SEA/Asian coverage.

And yes, that particular timezone is near shambles.

Why ?

No one really cares for PPT (as there's no real Euro coverage to replace us after we log off)

In-frequent turn outs for WvW. (like every server people get bored of WvW)

The number game (except it's always fun to beat something thats twice our size and watch it become smaller)

Lack of the 'big picture' mentality.

State of the game (Anet's fault tbh)
So what has this got to do with my guild then ?
AFS has now been on SoR for the last 1 and a half months.

We moved over from SoS as we saw that competition on that server was almost depleted. The competitive nature of the guild was conflicting with the server's current casual guilds. With all the different major WvW guilds leaving, it basically became boring to play WvW on SoS.

Down came the decision to xfer or turn into a PvX guild. Both had more Cons than Pros. To defend my guild I would say that xfering was never really an answer to anything, but a decision that was forced onto us.

The decision to kick members from the guild also came from that fact that AFS runs on guild loyalty (the people who stayed longest with this guild knows what I'm talking about) We do not force builds on anyone, but recommend what we believe is most suitable for someone. We do not pay off our people to run WvW, we do not provide prizes for anyone who joins us and we probably lose money while playing WvW.

In the end we are a guild that enjoy's the whole principle of WvW. Working with other guilds in our timezone to beat back another server's large force.

Which brings me to the above point.

Sad to say, last night on Tuesday 7th of May 2013. I was extremely disappointed in SoR, I came online at 9pm (+8 gmt) into EB and there was no one on the map except for maybe 15-18 people.

Out of those 18, atleast 10-15 were AFS...

This is a T1 server, I told myself. Yet to see [Outmanned] in EB was a joke. I died alittle last night, and thought to myself "Wow, I xfered here for this?" let alone my entire guild.

Xfering was less of the two evils and when people say 'Oh they are just doing it for the money' well let me explain that to you as well.

Xfering while receiving some kind of compensation is of course against someone's so-called 'Ethics'. But end of the day a guild needs to have some kind of fall back if it wants to stay alive. This is of course the only thing that helps guilds in GW2...as Anet has of yet solved the problem behind WvW. I do not personally blame WM/KOR/MEOW for going to BG as they were offered a substantial ammount (SoR was asked to match it)

(AFS never took any money from SoR mind you. So I'm not covering my own ass when I say this.)

If only the community of SoR had the same mentality of BG, that gold may have been put up for grabs (and most likely buy more guilds over)

So was xfering the issue ?

I don't think so.
Then what is ?

SoR has a culture of just having fun, people here say 'We don't care for PPT' and believe that it isn't that important.....these people are lying idiots and have no idea how WvW works.

Points in WvW are the only current method used by Anet to determine a server's current strength and coverage. It is the only thing that's probably why JQ/BG/SOR are still fighting each other in the Tier 1 bracket. To say "We don't play for PPT" is like saying "well I just go into WvW to die alot and I love dieing"

AFS does not care too much for the PPT as well, however we do care enough to use the WvW timer to our advantage instead of looking at it as a liability. We watch the clock tick to 5 mins and ask ourselves "okay what can we take atm to add into the tally?"

And in the end we notice that most of our members actually didn't realize how fun it was to use the PPT as an indicator to beat our enemies.

Anyways to conclude. ( cause I can write 4-5 pages of this shit and everyone will ignore it)

Why is SoR SEA/Timezone dieing out?

I think it's again Anet's fault for making an interesting mode yet, f*** it up for everyone due to lack of information.

With people losing interest in the game and it is up to the the guild leader to retain their interest.

Problem is, not all Guild leaders have the time to do that. (Or bothered)