full title of this topic would be
Get guesting feature in and free transfers out a.s.a.p please
As the lower trier servers have found out first in USA and now in the EU, free server transfers are completely ruining gameplay for lots of players. specially WvW but since WvW scores affect PVE gameplay aswell (like you need WvW for map completion and the WvW bonuses gained are also enjoyed by the PVE community (like the harvesting bonus that you get more/ better rewards from harvesting)
What is the problem here? well it is massive moves of WvW dedicated guilds and players to lower ranked servers. for example indicated in this topic
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Join-New-Vabbi-WvW-focused-alliance/
First of all it totally changes the WvW experience that Vabbi players used to have. Further more, the other servers in the same Trier have their WvW community crushed by all the pro players that come in from Vabbi. For example FoW, has had a rough ride in WvW, was finally getting its WvW going at its low Trier level. Thanks to X-mas holliday’s lot of new players joined us in the server and in WvW and we had some nice battles going on between us and Ruins of Sumira (yes Vabbi was rather weak, so some assistance for them was very welcome) however now we face large groups of pro WvW players from Vabbi. Our new WvW players who just started the game, are most of the time not even lv 80, let allone that they have a full exotic gear. This was no big deal at our own low level WvW, it was working out alright. However now they are totally outclassed by the pro WvW players from the other servers that roam in WvW in great numbers.
Ok this can happen, you win some, you lose some, thats WvW, but there is just no fighting against them. At some point it is even impossible to use both breakout events and then get one of the towers on our own border, because the enemy zerg just crushes us. To make matters worse, due to the low ranking score of Vabbi, it will take them a few weeks to actually move up a rank. When the actually will move up in rank, other server have to deal with the problem until they move up again, until the point that they are finally back at a trier that is on par with them. Because it will take such a long, time lots of players on FoW are likely to change server. This is not limited to WvW players but also to PVE players that are looking to get their world completion done or just simple want better world bonuses that really low ones. If it would last one week or max 2 we would probably manage, but longer, and this is really getting an big issue, we have seen it happen in the past on FoW, and when players leave it also get harder to find groups for dungons or fractals, so even more players leave. Recently we lost all leaders/officers of an 200+ players guild on FoW because they moved to an other server, because they had trouble to find good groups.
By the time vabbi finally moves up, Fow’s population is likely weakened so far that it will be very hard to fight against on-par servers again.
Getting the guesting feature in, assures friends can play together even if they are on different servers (all except for WvW) and also helps players from less populated servers to find groups for dungeons and fractals, taking away part of the reason to move in the first place.
An end to free transfers makes it less likely that things like this will happen again in the future
This is just my experience in the EU servers, but the US servers have a similar problem as i have read on the forums.
please Arena net, put a stop to these huge transfers that shake up WvW and affect lots of players such as the low Trier casual WvW players.
Vin Lady Venture, of The Rising Falcons [RiFa]
member of the Fissure of Woe (FoW) community