Guild Wars 2

Free server transfers should be changed.

Well what can we do?
1. Leave as free but increase cooldown from 24hrs to 1 week+
2. Change to a paid system, either cash or gem based
3. Discuss and come up with a even better solution

Thoughts and Reasoning:
1. Increases loyalty to a server, and creates a tighter knit community. This results in a sense of your Home server is actually your home, instead of some free motel you are staying at for the night.

2. WvW balance. I assume a large number of transfers to a popular (WvW) server are because they are highly ranked. Currently you can fight for whatever side is winning each day if you would like. Example: Fall of HoD, and now overpopulation of JQ.

3. Increases revenue and server economy if you switch to a paid (gem) system. More people buying gems, more transfer of gold to gems, and overall an increase in “goldflow”.

Feel free to discuss or debate any of the topics above.

The idea of free world transfers was so friends can play on the same server but, for WvW, it kills it deeply. ATM My server has over a dozen commanders from people transfering over because they wana be or make us better in WvW. There is no loyalty just people who wana be on the winning side. Id like to see perhaps 2-3 free world transfers and the rest are paid for. Atleast a upcoming fee would push people to not transfer so often.

actually, when the game released; these free server transfers were only supposed to be temporary. Eventually, they’d stop being free, and they would be purchaseable with gems. You could only do it once every seven days.

I think they said that would implement when the guesting feature was ready.

Optik.9465:

3. Increases revenue and server economy if you switch to a paid (gem) system. More people buying gems, more transfer of gold to gems, and overall an increase in “goldflow”.

Feel free to discuss or debate any of the topics above.

oh and hey… btw, there is no “server” economy. The BLTP is global. Unless some server has set up a server wide forum somewhere, and all or majority of players there all agree to use that to do business and not use the Post. But yeah.. all economy is global across all servers.

but, you’re right about the gems being able to help support the game company, so they can develop more content. People keep asking for content. Content costs money.

a good fix for now would be to block people from WvWvW for X amount of time after a transfer, this would stop alot of this server hopping, but would let people who are trying to find a server they like/fit in with try different servers out, since guesting isnt working….