No One Cares For Alliance Battles Anymore?

I love ABing, but I can't do so if all the districts including my home one (AE 1) has only 3 players lurking about to just completely empty. Now is a good example. This is has going on for a while now. What's going on? No one interested anymore? I attached a screenshot to show I'm not lying. I have felt for a while Anet might need to give some sort of upgrade to the AB maps and so. It has been quite monotonous, but I still love ab and its a nice way to spend the time when I don't feel like doing any pve atm.

Some quick reasons.
1. The faction reward is not worth the effort compared to other options.
2. 99.9% of the time its either on A-lands or Grenz
3. Takes forever to get a match.
4. The Kuzick side is a joke.

There are two other threads on this topic, not sure if we need a third.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/a...t10472860.html
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/c...t10474490.html

This , although i think most players don't play mainly because of 1st point. You need to realize that you're usually rewarded with more points by losing in JQ than winning in AB...

There should be some support yes ( revamp rewards , better map rotation) but in fact , was there any update ever in AB ?

just want to add one more thing to that list.....

5. Faction title is no longer needed for 30 total titles under any condition....

6. games dead bro

Game isn´t dead, but it could look like the rewards for ab needs to be improved a bit.

Faction battles were my fave since they first started, shame to see them lying there dead and un-used

AB needs to be a 6v6 arena.

Promotes active splits, objectives make staying as a whole team pretty unattractive, and biggest of all YOU CAN BRING A FULL TEAM.

Having control over 1/3 of your team means you're pretty well guaranteed that the other 2/3 is trash.

Yes, a long time ago, can't recall exactly what, but they made the rewards a bit better. I think it used to be 1,250 for winning, always, but then they changed it so that on enemy maps you got 2,000 or 2,500 for winning. This was when they changed the faction title all together, and gave double points on title when donating.

well, double it
problem fixed!

Even when AB was popular it took forever to get in. That is always the biggest turn off for me. Then there are elitist morons and those imbeciles.

Make AB like FA/JQ where you have no control over who you team with, and then figure out why the heck it is always on the two end game maps.

to Why? if they made AB like FA/JQ it would only become more unatractive to those who like AB over those... believe it or not... some of us hate FA and JQ
I also dislike FengShuiDoves idea... I like the AB format... only pvp in the entire game I like, so don't wanna see it change too much.
Yes it needs something... but don't make it something thats not AB anymore.
I would not QQ if it happened though... I'd give it a try maybe, and unless I could get positively surprised I'd just leave it for others to do. There is other things I would still be able to enjoy as there is now.

To the question, some of us still care for AB, it's just too few I think... perhaps also a problem that among us few theres some (including me) that go there too rarely to make any difference. And well... given up due to what you say... when you get there you are alone or theres too few to get even one team.

^ agree.

Game is surely not dead yet... but certain segments of it (i.e. AB...) are.