Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I do not post much on this forum but have been an avid player of GW2. I have ran into a huge problem recently with the new guesting feature. While I do like the idea, the paid transfer has killed things for me.

My story is that approximately 1 week ago I did a server transfer (for the first time ever) just to play with a few friends from another server. Most of my friends however are on Ferguson’s Crossing and so I was fully planning to transfer back after the 7 days. I did NOT see that transferring back was going to cost gems before I made the move or I wouldn’t have done it.. Now it costs a LARGE amount (out of my budget) to transfer back. I am extremely sad about this…I likely won’t play again for a while. So my suggestion stands and if anybody has a better one I would like to hear that as well. Thanks for reading.

Save gold, transfer gold to gems. There was a lot of pre-warning about it. :-/

Sorry to here your problem DreamWind but you should have been prepared.From the launch of GW2 it was known server transfers are free only because guesting had problems.
2nd Anet gave us two weeks to prepare and establish on a home server before server transfers become payed.
I think that you should have done some researching before even thinking to transfer.It was clearly known that server transfers won’t be free for ever.

there was 5 months of free transfers that were never intended. If guesting had worked at launch like it was supposed to you would never have gotten any transfer for free, be thankful you only have to pay once now.

How much does it cost? It’s not sold as a service in the Gem Store… ?

I considered a transfer… but then I realized I’d lose all the influence my guild as accumulated to date. I think with the reset coming… it’s worth sticking it out where I am (and hopefully using what influence related perks I have ‘bought’) before making a move.

Thank your lucky starts that with GW2… you pay one price to move your whole account. It could easily have been price per toon… as it is in so many other games… think the avg is $25 each.

Those people comparing GW2’s server move to other games should consider that most MMOs allow you to create multiple characters split across multiple servers. If you want to play with a friend on another server, you need only create another character for free.

GW2 is unique among games I’ve played, in restricting you to only creating characters on one server.

Therefore it’s a bit silly that they charge 500 gems on average (somewhere between 5-10 gold, ie, more money than most characters will have made in the first 60-70 levels) for a feature that is not quite as good in most circumstances as most games give for free (but equal in some less common circumstances to a service those games charge more for).

I personally, do not want or need to move my characters across servers, I just need to be able to play with my friends without these frustrating arbitrary borders.

Which is why they implemented guesting. Instead of having to make a whole new character that may not be able to play with them where they want to play, and without having to pay anything at all to play with them, you can guest over to their server and interact at your leisure. The only thing you can’t do is play competatively in their WvW, because that would mess up their numbers.

Kal, Guesting does not work for all servers. It only works in one region, thereby splitting the players into 5 or so arbitrary groups.

I am a bit saddened that most of the responses are “you should have known” or “you should have prepared”. Here’s the thing: I wouldn’t have made the transfer HAD I known. I do not frequent these forums or get involved in discussions outside of the game..I play in the game only and never knew guesting would even exist. The login screen as far as I know did not announce the change until after I had already transferred (or at least I did not see it).

All I can say is I haven’t played since the change and I likely won’t again for a while. It costs 1000gems to transfer back to my homeworld and I just can’t do that. I know many won’t care but I’m just saying the game has currently lost one avid player until further notice.