Guild Wars 2

…to 12 hours instead of 24.

My Asian time zone means that if I play in the afternoon, my UK friends are asleep and when I play in the evenings, my America friends are asleep. So I’ve been jumping between servers to be wherever my friends are awake.

I suspect that I’m not the only one who’s been using the transfers legitimately like this, while waiting for the guesting system to go live.

I understand the need to prevent exploits in WvW, but 24 hours means each day that I get to play I have to choose which set of friends I’ll play with, and that means I’ll have to deal with ‘Quaggan sad’ noises from one side of the pond or the other.

Yes! I don’t know about 12 hours, for me 8 would be nicer, but 12 would be a huge improvement still! I am living in Europe and like to play with American friends in the morning (when it is night for them), and European friends in the evening. With no guesting and the 24 hour limit now I have to pick one set of friends or the other. I understand about only being able to WvW with one group anyway, but at least let me play the PvE stuff with both! Or just let us use guesting!

Please?

They should remove the cooldown at all and just bann a transfered account from WvW for the rest of the current cycle.

This is the second thread I’ve seen on this issue today. Eventually transferring will cost 1800 gems and you can only do it once every 7 days. However they will be implementing a guesting system. You can guest to any server for free without limitations. You cannot do WvW and you can’t be in a guild on the guested server from what I understand.

Araushnee.1852:

This is the second thread I’ve seen on this issue today. Eventually transferring will cost 1800 gems and you can only do it once every 7 days. However they will be implementing a guesting system. You can guest to any server for free without limitations. You cannot do WvW and you can’t be in a guild on the guested server from what I understand.

And, hopefully, you’ll get pushed to the overflow server if a native wants to play on his server.

Sigh.. they give anytime waypoints to go any place in the map without time, people complains about cost…
The give Free Server transfer… people complain about the cooldown….

I think a logical compromise would be to ban transfers to opposing worlds in WvW. For example, I’m in Jade Quarry at the moment. My current opponents are Stormbluff Isle and Hedge of Denravi. The free transfers should prohibit me in transferring to Stormbluff or Hedge, but allow me to transfer to other servers how and when I see fit without a worry for cooldowns. I think it could work that way at least until the guesting feature is in effect.

On the other hand, if your friends reside on an opposing server in WvW … that might be tricky to work around.

You guys could complain about this or remember that this was going to be a paid service from the start costing close to 25 bucks a transfer with a cooldown………

This time I am grateful for what they have done and Id rather have 24 hours then have to pay (yet)

The cooldown is fine. Server transfer is a tool that should be used sporadically, it’s not something that should really be used multiple times a day (that would not be possible when it has a cost… or not cheap at least). 24hr is perfectly reasonable.

nachtnebel.9168:

And, hopefully, you’ll get pushed to the overflow server if a native wants to play on his server.

I was only re-stating what A-net announced ages ago. It is in the FAQ on wiki. I have no interest in transfers/guesting personally. But people need to know about the policy if they don’t. Better to find out now then later. And based on this and another thread it doesn’t look like people are aware of the policy. Although if enough people aren’t aware of the policy, they may end up changing it, otherwise there will be a huge fuss.

Anything less then 24hrs lets you take advantage of rich orichalum ores and the like. Or better yet, make it 8 hours but require 100 gems, so that there’s an obvious cost that well outweighs any materials gained.

Or buy a second account (many of us had second accounts in GW1), and buy a so you can play 24×7 on two different servers.

Server transfer was made free as an interim solution to guesting not being ready. 24 hour cooldowns mean it’s no longer a workable alternative to guesting. Being able to play with my friends regardless of their server was one of the ways the game fulfilled its manifesto, and a huge plus for my own enjoyment of the game. I’d happily forgo WvW for extended periods as an alternative to forgoing my friends.

Totally agree with Munrock here, they should have had the guesting feature ready before placing any restriction on server transfer. I wouldn’t mind not being able to WvW or have WvW buffs for the next 24 hours after switching but being able to switch just once a day is just too restrictive. Also there are quite a number of bugged skillpoints and events I couldn’t finish on the server I was initially on which I could after switching to 2 or 3 different servers by trial and error, they really should have addressed these issues first in my opinion. Anyways, I hope guesting will be added soon.