Guild Wars 2

Hi,
Question to the Arena Net. Will I be able to move to another server in the near future for free? Gems are expensive and their price will not decrease. People want to move on another server due to WvW, but they can not. Where is the problem? Gems! Will you do something about it? Once a month, this would be a good option.

P.S. Sorry for my English. ^^

Thank you. I think it’s a good thing.

I agree with one free transfer per month
The current system is very biased towards North Americans x___x
Every North American Server is “Very High” or “Full”
so to transfer at the moment will cost 1,800 gems ~

With Europeans
there are 12 servers that are “Medium” and only cost 500 gems to transfer

Financially speaking:
To Live in North America and to transfer servers that will be $35 USD

To Live across the pond in Europe, it will only cost $10 USD to transfer

for those complaining saying well “use gold….”
Current Market for 100 gems: ~3 gold per 100
ill let you do the math….

It costs the same in EU and NA to move to popular servers. The different between the regions is that EU sometimes includes less popular worlds and the entire point of the current system is to make it easier for people to move from a high-pop to a low-pop home.

The reason for the high gem cost is to discourage people from moving — it costs ANet maintenance time/effort to support a transfer system. A free monthly transfer arrangement would have the opposite impact.

I would like it to be cheaper to change servers: I have friends in other worlds across regions; if it were easy, I would probably transfer frequently. But I understand why the current system exists and I respect it.

Theres a couple of reasons its not free.

1. To not crowd servers. If you add a fee, people will normally stick where they are. As of this date, most servers are balanced with users, there are some exceptions of course.
In the Beta and just after release i remember several EU servers which was full. Maybe 4-5 was full and the rest was Medium or Low. This makes the Low/medium servers, after time die, and no users want to play on them because there are so little users.
Wasn’t this the main reason why it was free in the start, before people started abusing it…

2. WvW got so unbalanced when it was free. People was switching servers just to “Spy” or to get an easy win. This made WvW pointless, and it was no longer fun when everyone crowded on the server that was best and made all other servers hate WvW. On the other hand, what has happened now is that all the huge WvW guilds switched to the good WvW server when it was free. And now they just can’t switch back without paying.
That makes for 3-4 superior servers that’s impossible to beat, you can clearly see this on the leaderboards.

3. This is why they added Guesting. For all of those who can’t afford, or don’t want to pay for switching but still want to play with their friends and/or guilds. Im not sure how long you actually can guest on a server, i think its like 24 hours(?). And for most of us thats plenty of time with friends and/or guild.
After this time it resets, and you can guest again. But im not sure about this.

A suggestion is that if you switch from a “Very High” or “Full” server to a Medium/Low density server, you’ll get In-game items like buffs, titles, karma, or materials etc.
This would equalize the servers, so that all the low and medium servers gets about equal users to the larger servers. Therefore maybe makes WvW more fun and balanced.

I also like the idea of one free transfer over time. But i would like to raise that 1 month to 4, 5 or 6 months because of WvW and general balance/abusing.

Well, maybe once every two months would be a better option.
It annoys me that people do not play this game and will not play anymore.
They could do a separate server for inactive players and if he will return to the game can move on to any server for free.

The only reason that they aren’t free it’s to sink Money and make ppl grind, and to make ppl spend Money in gems, real and virtually. All the rest are falacious assumptions.

Not entirely true, there was a great deal of people asking for paid transfers long before that actually happened. Yes, it was always meant to happen, but ultimately, it being free caused more problems in wvw.

That isnt to say a money sink isnt a viable bonus to them. They will likely use free transfers strategically to spread the community around around as and when their data shows them it is needed

I highly doubt that this is ever gonna happen. Remeber that GW2 is f2p? The only income Anet makes is from the gamepurchase itself and real money for gems. And if server transfer is something of great interest of many players, a hugh chunk of them is going to buy gems to just be able to make a server transfer. So if you are able to transfer once a month ofcourse people will just wait and then make the transfer. That will be a loss for Anet.

Most of the stuff in the gem store can just be pure kitten but as an example here some things are of value of players and ofcourse we want it for free too.

If things are so expensive, save your money and when you actually have them rethink if it’s really worth to spend them on gems. Also, think of it like this way, if it now costs 35$ for that amount of gems enough for a transfer. That is what wow-players pay every second month just to play the actual game. We’re truly spoiled compared to that.

Any free server transfers must be limited to lower tier server in order to increase their WvW populations, thats the only reason I think free transfers can be justified. If people want to go to high population, top tier servers, then they should pay for it.
Though I think Anet need to fix what a low populaiton server is as apparently people were able to use the free trasnfer to get into T1 servers during the servers’ off-peak times when fewer people were online.

A small number of people buy gems to move to another server. Of them only from 5% to 15%. This will help to people’s lives.
It is still an option: “Guest”.
Option: “Guest” – allows move on to the server to play PvE.
Let us remember that!