Guild Wars 2

Seriously, this is ridiculous, you have people who just guest on other servers instead of their home world. Just let us transfer for free….

Paid transfers are really put in place for the WvW crowd. Jumping from server to server on the WvW side of the game really disrupts the gameplay.

They tried having free transfers. People abused the living bejeezus out of it basically trying to stay in the Tier 1 or Tier 2 worlds for WvW.

They had said a long time ago that it was going to be possible, but cost money. You could guest temporarily but transfer would cost money. The guesting didn’t work properly on release so they allowed free transfers until they got the problem fixed. They got guesting fixed but didn’t turn off free transfers right away.

I know they did, I was here for launch. I want it back. They should do what they did for GW1, PVP or PVE characters, PVE don’t have to pay while PVP do.

1800 gems is far too much for high populated servers, that like 35$ , Money I have, but not that I wanna spend

Salacious.7358:

I know they did, I was here for launch. I want it back. They should do what they did for GW1, PVP or PVE characters, PVE don’t have to pay while PVP do.

1800 gems is far too much for high populated servers, that like 35$ , Money I have, but not that I wanna spend

Isn’t that exactly how it works right now?. PvE (guesting) doesn’t have to pay, PvP (transfer) do.

How would free transfers “fix the guesting problem”?

Salacious.7358:

I know they did, I was here for launch. I want it back. They should do what they did for GW1, PVP or PVE characters, PVE don’t have to pay while PVP do.

1800 gems is far too much for high populated servers, that like 35$ , Money I have, but not that I wanna spend

And how exactly would that help with anything ?

So you’d say that we should have PvP and PvE specific accounts ?
And it wouldn’t even solve the problem, as you’d still have people in PvE jumping from server to server trying to stay on top of the WvW anyway which would result in the same thing – Extremely high queues, lag, as well as very low populated servers elsewhere.

Guesting functions perfectly for its purpose as it is right now, you keep people out of WvW while being able to play with your friends on other servers.

If you want to jump from server to server, just because your server is losing in WvW, then whats the point ? You just want to win with no effort all the time ?

Salacious.7358:

I know they did, I was here for launch. I want it back. They should do what they did for GW1, PVP or PVE characters, PVE don’t have to pay while PVP do.

1800 gems is far too much for high populated servers, that like 35$ , Money I have, but not that I wanna spend

You’re not getting it back. To quote many a parent: “This is why you can’t have nice things.”

- People hopping onto a server and griefing their WvW. Thinks like taking supply from towers/keeps and placing rams out in the middle of nowhere, or in the courtyard of towers. Or relaying to their buddies on other servers what was going on.

- People cramming themselves into a small subset of servers which happened to be in the higher tiers. Dropped a tier? Suddenly a ghost town.

Salacious.7358:

I know they did, I was here for launch. I want it back. They should do what they did for GW1, PVP or PVE characters, PVE don’t have to pay while PVP do.

1800 gems is far too much for high populated servers, that like 35$ , Money I have, but not that I wanna spend

It’s ~$23 if you use cash to buy the gems.
Or you can use ingame gold to buy the gems – not sure what the conversion rate is now.

Karizee.8076:

Salacious.7358:

I know they did, I was here for launch. I want it back. They should do what they did for GW1, PVP or PVE characters, PVE don’t have to pay while PVP do.

1800 gems is far too much for high populated servers, that like 35$ , Money I have, but not that I wanna spend

It’s ~$23 if you use cash to buy the gems.
Or you can use ingame gold to buy the gems – not sure what the conversion rate is now.

It varies a bit. It spiked a bit ago when the Quaggan Backpacks were available and they put bank/bag slots on sale. I know, I bought a bank tab then :P

If you’ve been here since launch, you had plenty of time while transfers were free to select the server that best suits you. If you just want to server hop whenever your current home isn’t doing so well in the rankings or whatever, paid server transfers are in place specifically to prevent that, and the Devs aren’t going to change anything for your sake. And if your desire for exodus is inspired by your server’s community flooding some other server’s Dragon events and such and leaving their native zones abandoned, letting you move permanently is the last thing that will improve population balance. Your zones may be ghost towns, but our (TC) are saturated. If you think jumping ship to one of the servers that’s getting bombarded will in any way help, you can simulate the experience for a test-run by transferring permanently to Overflow.

Well I seem to remember people complaining about free world transfers, so now people are complaining about paid for world transfers.