351 replies to this topic

[Flake]

Meph I don't think it will have that big an impact.  SoS is packed full of talent.

[Seki]

Beastgate, on 08 December 2012 - 01:09 AM, said:

We're recruiting too, and so is every other server. What now?

Auroraborealis.

[Cirus]

It's sad to see them leave, they have put in massive efforts to get our server to the top. The way they conducted themselves on the battle field, with supreme organization, discipline, dedication, tactical understanding and will to co-operate with the people around them is as good as you'll ever seen in WvW, they truly are the professionals! The efforts and impact that they've made,  not just to our server but  to all of North America will never be forgotten. Goodluck to PRX on your new adventure!

As for SoS, we are a unique server, the native population will never leave because we have nowhere to go. We want to play with other people in our time zone and SoS is the only GW2 server in the world that can provide this.If you're Aussie or Asian and you're tired of playing alone on a deserted server, SoS is the home for you! The NA alliance guilds that transferred over to SoS were not part of any bandwagon and they had no idea that PRX were coming in the first place, it will have no effect on them. As for SoS being stacked, sorry to disappoint you but it never happened

SoS, lets try to win tier 1 for the 4th week in a row, no matter what's thrown at us! We've been through hell before, we'll go through it again if we have to!

[crowea]

I wish the PRX people the best of luck, and I understand completely why they are looking for a new challenge. Wins for three weeks (and especially after all those weeks in hoD) becomes boring and predictable, and EU will throw up new challenges against new players.

Meanwhile SoS JQ and SBI are going to be playing against each other for a couple of weeks yet. THis may be a positive for SoS as the focus (from some on these forums) will be less on PRX.

[Sfuri]

Game is boring and WvW in T1 has outmanned buffs on all three servers. It's not PRX is jumping ship, it's a guild trying to find fun in a boring ass game. Anet is a blind company and if they were smart they would fix WVW. The whole no showing names is still the stupidest thing ive ever seen.

Edited by Sfuri, 08 December 2012 - 02:39 AM.

[Azorax]

okay to clear any doubts/worries

1. prx did not majorly participate in wvw last week 30th-7th. they capped the map at the start of the day with 20 golems and running around, then dissapeared. it was only today that they announced that they were not no longer participating in sos.

2. at the alliance guild meeting for sos no guilds announced that they were going to leave and follow prx. (or as i have heard from my guild leader who was at the meeting). In fact, the guilds present were 'pumped' because this is now their time to shine. gl to tsym, foe, work and all the other guilds which i have not mentioned. I do not think that sos will spiral downwards.

3. i completely agree and understand prx's decision to leave since sos was already no.1. it gets boring here at the top.

all info i typed here was information that i had heard from my guild leader and from a guy who i know in prx.

[DreadlockrastaGW]

Meh I was in ruin when they xfered to euro, and all it was, was nightcapping vs no population. Grass ain't always greener on the other side.

[ritsuko]

I wish PRX all the best in a hopefully refreshing and more competitive environment. Maybe I'll see you again in the next big MMO ;D

[crowea]

DreadlockrastaGW, on 08 December 2012 - 03:03 AM, said:

Meh I was in ruin when they xfered to euro, and all it was, was nightcapping vs no population. Grass ain't always greener on the other side.

I curious as to PRX vs RUIN, though not sure how many RUIn are stil playing over there?

[DreadlockrastaGW]

crowea, on 08 December 2012 - 03:13 AM, said:

I curious as to PRX vs RUIN, though not sure how many RUIn are stil playing over there?

Heard a bunch of them play ps2 now and not GW2, I think the golden hour for a battle of the ages (PRX vs Ruin) has passed, and now they are only going to face a few ruin stragglers.

[Sfuri]

PRX already decimated ruin on ET on EB for like 4 matches and ruin even stopped pvping because of it.

[chuckles79]

Stop getting excited friends on JQ and SBI, while SBI seems to use WM and it's affiliates as a crutch, PRX was simply icing of our cake; not the whole freaking bakery.

[Beastgate]

Not getting excited, the populations here are worse than ever. Last week I don't remember you guys being able to take over a whole BL within one hour of reset.

I'm still waiting for the day when EB has no queue in a tier 1 server after reset. That will be the day WvW can be considered dead.

Edited by Beastgate, 08 December 2012 - 04:15 AM.

[hanso]

Ruin scrubs got like 10 active wvw "players" left. They picked up a few randoms on Blacktide. If anyone is hoping for Ruin vs Prx, won't happen.

Will be fun to see what SFR can do now, since they already got added coverage by good russian/eastern euro guilds. Also will be interesting to see who will get kicked out of T1 when SFR comes up. I think that it'll be Arborstone sadly and the weasels from Viz will stay.

[RidRip]

"Hey guys we are sick and tired of T1 so we are going to move to Euro servers where we are going to.....nightcap"

[TheProfessor5]

So one of the SoS guys just pulled a bunch of quotes from KV (the PRX GM) from the SoS boards - basically just eviscerated KV, good stuff.  Also apparently they kept all the donated siege they got in the JP last night for porting people up and took it to the new server.  Classy.

Here's some of KV's quotes over the past few weeks:
"We do not want to server hop."
"We don't want to leave SoS, but we want to know that at least a few folks have our back."
"We want to make SoS our home and work to build it."
"We don't ask for greatness, we ask simply for effort."
"If you show up and fight... we will look to the future and stand with you."
"Let's not let our server down."
"Im asking you to stand with us tonight."
"What will help your guild gain prestige and new recruits, participating in some PvE events, or being a guild on the #1 server in the game?"
"My point is, you don't get the opportunity everyday to be the best."

Edited by TheProfessor5, 08 December 2012 - 06:02 AM.

[Killminusnine]

What a bunch of overblown drama.

[derek1240]

TheProfessor5, on 08 December 2012 - 05:59 AM, said:

So one of the SoS guys just pulled a bunch of quotes from KV (the PRX GM) from the SoS boards - basically just eviscerated KV, good stuff.  Also apparently they kept all the donated siege they got in the JP last night for porting people up and took it to the new server.  Classy.

Here's some of KV's quotes over the past few weeks:
"We do not want to server hop."
"We don't want to leave SoS, but we want to know that at least a few folks have our back."
"We want to make SoS our home and work to build it."
"We don't ask for greatness, we ask simply for effort."
"If you show up and fight... we will look to the future and stand with you."
"Let's not let our server down."
"Im asking you to stand with us tonight."
"What will help your guild gain prestige and new recruits, participating in some PvE events, or being a guild on the #1 server in the game?"
"My point is, you don't get the opportunity everyday to be the best."

honestly they probably did it because the guild was in danger of losing too many members from boredom.
I mean im sure he really felt that way when he said that but if you guild is dying like WM's wouldnt you try to do something to keep it afloat?

[kidawk]

Wouldn't one say that PRX was the driving force behind the Titan Alliance?

You guys are a roach zerg, there is no glory in roach zerging.

Sorry.

When your guild can win a fight with equal numbers as opposed to roach zerging, then we can have a conversation.

[XgreatArtist]

PRX leaving, same crap what TA gave.

[DeagarFA]

TheProfessor5, on 08 December 2012 - 05:59 AM, said:

Here's some of KV's quotes over the past few weeks:
"We do not want to server hop."
"We don't want to leave SoS, but we want to know that at least a few folks have our back."
"We want to make SoS our home and work to build it."
"We don't ask for greatness, we ask simply for effort."
"If you show up and fight... we will look to the future and stand with you."
"Let's not let our server down."
"Im asking you to stand with us tonight."
"What will help your guild gain prestige and new recruits, participating in some PvE events, or being a guild on the #1 server in the game?"
"My point is, you don't get the opportunity everyday to be the best."

Not sure what the evisceration is here. Seems like statements you'd expect from a tier 1 guild that dropped to tier4 and rallied it. This all seems pretty in line with the open letter PRXKV posted to SoS that started a midweek turnaround in one of their matches.

[two maces]

chuckles79, on 08 December 2012 - 03:47 AM, said:

Stop getting excited friends on JQ and SBI, while SBI seems to use WM and it's affiliates as a crutch, PRX was simply icing of our cake; not the whole freaking bakery.

I thought WM also get tired of WvW lately. Just they got no other outlet to turn to.

[Beastgate]

two maces, on 08 December 2012 - 06:54 AM, said:

I thought WM also get tired of WvW lately. Just they got no other outlet to turn to.

True that. Unfortunately I think Jade Quarry has a better chance of beating SoS than we do.

[crowea]

TheProfessor5, on 08 December 2012 - 05:59 AM, said:

So one of the SoS guys just pulled a bunch of quotes from KV (the PRX GM) from the SoS boards

Nearly all postings on the SoS boards are from people people wishing PRX all the best and thanking them for their contribution to the server.

[Shiren]

derek1240, on 08 December 2012 - 06:16 AM, said:

honestly they probably did it because the guild was in danger of losing too many members from boredom.
I mean im sure he really felt that way when he said that but if you guild is dying like WM's wouldnt you try to do something to keep it afloat?

I completely agree if the guild is dieing and moving to another server is going to solve the problem then it's the right move. Looking at the server they moved to, there are no queues on shuffle day (today) at least not in the three hours I was checking it out, I saw three towers captured with no defense at all, literally PvD. Even when SoS was in tier 2 or 3 there were always queues for EB at least all day on shuffle day. Currently SoS has a long queue for EB and the other maps are highly active. Hopefully things improve in europe tier 2 for this week or tier 1 is a lot more active if they go up in a tier next week (which it looks like the server was going to do anyway), otherwise I don't know what PRX bothered switching for (unless they wanted PvD because that's what I'm seeing on the server they moved to). Honestly, I think it's a shame PRX didn't move to one of the NA servers so SoS could compete with them.

Either way I think this (along with War Machine on the forums) is just another anecdote to show WvW needs more developer love to stay competitive. A lot of the big guilds were made up of bandwagoners who were never going to stay around for long (a lot of PRX seemed like this, they were going to leave GW2 sooner or later) but I do think something needs to be done to keep the WvW core active and interested.

[Xenesis]

Vanu4life, on 07 December 2012 - 10:32 PM, said:

So that's where FoH went?  I spent a week getting rid of the aids my computer got last month from there.
loool how are they *ing over SoS?  Are you saying PRX is the reason why SoS went from #10 to #1?  What guild on SoS are you in?

FoH guild doesn't play GW2 as far as I know, they're still in wow and rift at the moment and have their own private boards. The open boards were an extension of them in name but not really associated with the guild. The admins have neglected it lately so that's why the malware has shown up and stayed for so long, most of the posters moved to another duplicate forum to get away from there morenetz.org, which seems to have gone down as of yesterday... Tuco was a mod on both boards and is a member of PRX, which had a thread on there advertising for them.

TheProfessor5, on 08 December 2012 - 05:59 AM, said:

So one of the SoS guys just pulled a bunch of quotes from KV (the PRX GM) from the SoS boards - basically just eviscerated KV, good stuff.  Also apparently they kept all the donated siege they got in the JP last night for porting people up and took it to the new server.  Classy.

Here's some of KV's quotes over the past few weeks:
"We do not want to server hop."
"We don't want to leave SoS, but we want to know that at least a few folks have our back."
"We want to make SoS our home and work to build it."
"We don't ask for greatness, we ask simply for effort."
"If you show up and fight... we will look to the future and stand with you."
"Let's not let our server down."
"Im asking you to stand with us tonight."
"What will help your guild gain prestige and new recruits, participating in some PvE events, or being a guild on the #1 server in the game?"
"My point is, you don't get the opportunity everyday to be the best."

Seriously? That was basically all of what was said in the open letter on halloween week to SOS when SOR pulled a quick one on us to cap everything on the halloween event patch to pull a huge turn around lead on us. Highly doubt it was repeated "over the past few weeks" since we've been winning every week for the past two months. Sounds like words for when we're losing...

They kept donated siege..... you wanted them to destroy them before moving? or stand around calling out in lions arch to give them back? lol. I again highly doubt they had people pay a "toll" of donating siege weapons for helping loot the chest. They've done the chest portal runs for the entire server before, as in they go to lions arch and tell people they can go loot the chest and bring their alts if they want and no we didn't need to pay them anything. As a recipient of that reward before, I would not have had a problem giving them the siege weapons as thanks. I would think we would have heard a lot more about this from SOS guilds if any of this went down, just sounds like someone wants to stir up some drama because a big name guild moved. They also moved at the appropriate time, near the end of one match and before the start of another, not midweek.

As for PRX, it's been a fun ride, always enjoyed being part of their "militia". I don't blame them for wanting to move on to other challenges, they may eventually move to Darkfall 2 if there's enough interest and gw2 gets boring by feb. Good luck to them.

[1up]

Not like any competitive player is even playing GW2 atm... With the broken PvP majority have moved on... LoL S3! GL on Euro server, it's just as bad with more lag. I played on Desolation for a week.

[Onshi]

hanso, on 08 December 2012 - 04:39 AM, said:

Ruin scrubs got like 10 active wvw "players" left. They picked up a few randoms on Blacktide. If anyone is hoping for Ruin vs Prx, won't happen.

Will be fun to see what SFR can do now, since they already got added coverage by good russian/eastern euro guilds. Also will be interesting to see who will get kicked out of T1 when SFR comes up. I think that it'll be Arborstone sadly and the weasels from Viz will stay.

Arborstone doesn't have the numbers to sustain a strong night coverage on more than a week so yes they will likely drop to T2. But as a Vs player i'm not sure that we will stay for long if PRX and followers settle in EU ladder.
But it will be interesting to see how the ladder will balance then.

BT is actually ahead with coverage from Xaoc, a few leftover from Ruin, and good prime time forces who transferred from other servers.
SFR should challenge BT with their new forces, time will tell if they manage to beat them.

Vs and As are behind and pretty much at the same level, As having maybe more structured forces but Vs having a better sustained coverage.

And after that it seems to have a huge gap.
German seems to have lost most of their forces, Desolation needs to rebuild, Baruch Bay lacks day strength and I don't see other Eu server ready and willing to follow Bt and Sfr tracks for now.

[Phoebe Poison]

Onshi, on 08 December 2012 - 01:48 PM, said:

BT is actually ahead with coverage from Xaoc, a few leftover from Ruin, and good prime time forces who transferred from other servers.
SFR should challenge BT with their new forces, time will tell if they manage to beat them.

11pm/12am GMT to 3/4am GMT are still our weak spot, between Euros going to sleep and Russians waking up, like it's always been, before or after RUIN transfer. That said it will definitely be an intresting matchup, people are getting bored here If SFR will dominate during the night and XAOC during the morning, the evening fights should be more tense and I predict a tight score.

[hanso]

Onshi, on 08 December 2012 - 01:48 PM, said:

Arborstone doesn't have the numbers to sustain a strong night coverage on more than a week so yes they will likely drop to T2. But as a Vs player i'm not sure that we will stay for long if PRX and followers settle in EU ladder.
But it will be interesting to see how the ladder will balance then.

BT is actually ahead with coverage from Xaoc, a few leftover from Ruin, and good prime time forces who transferred from other servers.
SFR should challenge BT with their new forces, time will tell if they manage to beat them.

Vs and As are behind and pretty much at the same level, As having maybe more structured forces but Vs having a better sustained coverage.

And after that it seems to have a huge gap.
German seems to have lost most of their forces, Desolation needs to rebuild, Baruch Bay lacks day strength and I don't see other Eu server ready and willing to follow Bt and Sfr tracks for now.

XAOC is not really playing atm as you can see and that's what BT is about, defending during day and EU prime time what XAOC did fortify during the early morning.
I think BT will drop from T1 after christmas latest or keep pingpong between T1/2 competing with AS for 3rd slot in T1. Unless XAOC picks up early morning capping again. If the rats that flooded BT will move to SFR, the new to come #1 international server, BT might drop even further.
BT has no queues during EU prime time for a month or so while being #1 EU server, says it all. The EU primetime guilds have either stopped wvw or aren't of significant amount to counter Viz forces.