Guild Wars 2

Just give folks a free server transfer every 3 months. And institute a $20 paid server transfer in the TP (Ya, I know. Buy Gems – Buy Transfer).

I see ‘Guesting’ as nothing more than a huge potential for bugs, and a never-ending source of Tickets for Customer Service.

For very little gain.
Sounded good on paper.
Not going to be so good in reality, I am thinking.

I don’t think you quite understand how it works…although it is not yet fully implemented, it is more or less akin to the current “join in” feature for people on overflows.

Overflows are just other servers anyways, so it is practically the same thing, I don’t think guesting is tied in any way shape or form into the method of actual server transfers.

What bugs and tickets would be reported? You seem to have something else in your head, that may not be true, that is making you doubtful.

I disagree… Completely.

If it was that easy, it would have been in the game at launch.

Innocente.4271:

If it was that easy, it would have been in the game at launch.

Slippery SLope argument right there:
“X has not been implemented at launch, therefore it is too difficult to implement now”
It need sto come, only then can people be unified the way they are supposed to be in GW2 as promised.

Disagree with the OP. Transfer a limited to 7 days and are FREE and should remain so.

I did not say it was to difficult to implement now.
I said :

• If it was EASY to implement, it would have been there at launch.

• Any implementation they do is likely to be bug ridden and cause more problems that it is worth.

Innocente.4271:

I did not say it was to difficult to implement now.
I said :

• If it was EASY to implement, it would have been there at launch.

• Any implementation they do is likely to be bug ridden and cause more problems that it is worth.

The argument has hardly changed.
And it is worth it, because it allows cross server guilds to actually play together. especially with ANet wanting to move group-action to larger areas outside of dungeons.
If all we can do together are dungeons, then cross-server guilds are more or les snot worth it. I wanna do the big content with lots of people and leaving a few friends behind on an underpop server just to join another one for WvW suddenly becomes a much greater and weightier decision.
People shouldn’t be divided by the server they are on, but united by the game they are playing.
Downkicking and server guesting are 2 fundamental features to achieve this goal.

TL;DR: Server guesting is worth every single bug we have to go through, because it transcends the content and the mechanics of the game in its purpose: to bring people together to play together.

IF your on a very low population server, if you need a constant overflow server just in order to get a group to do dungeons. Without that, you might as well transfer off the server or quit the game entirely.

Innocente.4271:

I did not say it was to difficult to implement now.
I said :

• If it was EASY to implement, it would have been there at launch.

• Any implementation they do is likely to be bug ridden and cause more problems that it is worth.

The difference between Guesting and our current free server transfers is very small.

And I’ll be honest, being able to freely transfer servers is freaking awesome. I live in Europe, so naturally I play on a European server. However, I have friends who live in the US, so naturally they play on the US servers. The current system allows my friends to transfer to my server and play with me, or vice versa. And that’s excellent. And I’ll be honest, if it cost as much as you suggested, this wouldn’t happen at all.

The biggest complaint against the free transfers is abusing WvW. Certainly they can fix that.

Innocente.4271:

Just give folks a free server transfer every 3 months. And institute a $20 paid server transfer in the TP (Ya, I know. Buy Gems – Buy Transfer).

I see ‘Guesting’ as nothing more than a huge potential for bugs, and a never-ending source of Tickets for Customer Service.

For very little gain.
Sounded good on paper.
Not going to be so good in reality, I am thinking.

You have the right to have your opinion , which is guesting is not needed , fine.

But in my opinion it is needed and it is a MAJOR promised feature this game , actually it is amazing they still dont have it in yet.

Only way free transfers would be an … partially comparable feature is if they remove the cd completely , that means no more once a day/week, much less once every 3 months.

So to me is either make guesting implemented OR remove ANY transfer server restriction (which in my opinion will blow the system many times over the guesting).

Innocente.4271:

Just give folks a free server transfer every 3 months. And institute a $20 paid server transfer in the TP (Ya, I know. Buy Gems – Buy Transfer).

I see ‘Guesting’ as nothing more than a huge potential for bugs, and a never-ending source of Tickets for Customer Service.

For very little gain.
Sounded good on paper.
Not going to be so good in reality, I am thinking.

I disagree. I’m looking forward to guesting as I have friends and family on other servers I would like to quest with.

Innocente.4271:

If it was that easy, it would have been in the game at launch.

Really? Along with features that are quite standard in many other games such a customizable UI or at least a changeable font.

It is always wise to think before you hit ‘post’.

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