Guild Wars 2

As can be seen from the Guesting thread there is a groundswell of disapointment, confusion and sadness about the inability to play with friends across the regions.

Putting guesting in, as specified will drive a spike right down the middle of the playerbase.

This is’nt about content, it’s about how you want the community to be. Unfied no matter where they are, or divided.

My suggestion is this, put guesting in BUT at a minimum keep server transfers in place as they are until something better can be worked out.

I’m sure some WvW players will be upset and thats regrettable But surely the cost and risk to player retention is greater by dividing the community than an extension of a temporary measure.

Many, many times we were told X is impossible in GW1. Hairdressers, Apperance changes, account restorations, retrospective legendary survivor titles etc.

All of these were solved with some innovation and inventiveness from Areanet.

Please step up to the plate and try again and implement guesting.. when it’s ready

All I want is guesting across regions.

I don’t mind paid server transfers. But there’s lots of people with friends in both regions, so keeping them separate is not a good choice, no matter the technicalities behind it.

Yep this has driven A HUGE FRAKKING SPIKE b/w community. I thought the game had visions about a whole game community no matter where you were. Guess I was wrong.

I would like the true player envisioned Guesting please…
… Yes I’ll hold.

Stuff like this needs to be done in stages. Once the ‘Tyria curtain’ is raised it will be too late. Imho the fastest way of giving people the benefits of guesting but not sealing things tight is to leave some holes for people to go through until The Tyria Curtain is ready to be pulled down

Ich bin ein Tyrian

Agreed I’m not trolling I would really wait if the true guesting was being implemented!

Yep introducing things in stages is a good thing as it lets people recognise that they are doing SOMETHING about it.

I think also the main reason for the raging was the lack of communication between players, not living up to the 2013 Communication Award at this point in time.

I do also think that a longer time before a total lockdown would be good. Less than 2 weeks isn’t really a long time to decide. I truly hoped that they told us A LOT sooner before official announcement….

I’m sure some dislike not being able to “fully” join other servers with friends, but I think this push towards paid server transfers was aimed towards WvW. Many people would constantly leave their server and just join the “winning” one, no server pride or commitment. Guesting atleast allows you to join 2 regions, and every 24 hours a new one can be selected so if you honestly have friends in more than 2 regions, then you should talk about condensing. Plus I don’t think people are gana guest across more than 2 servers a day anyways.

I’m sure paid server transfers were for WvW. Question is. Is a single game type more important than a whole game wide community?

People have commented at length on the guesting thread about how condesing friends etc isnt acceptable so please pop over there and have a read

Leaving transfers as is, won’t make things better for WvW(neither will it make them worse). But raising the Tyrian curtain will make things a lot worse for most people (who play every type of content) if not from day one, it will eventually.

I understand that and we have condensed our regions. Residing in TC, SoR, IoJ NA and AG, GH in EU.

While am glad that WvW ’pro’s’ can no longer jump ship after things hit the fan. While I do enjoy competitive play I for one value community and selfless players over everything else. It used to be like that when the game initially launch now not so much and we get a huge divide that is justifiableto be upset about.

Stopping ’pro’s’ messing up server population is a brilliant thing!
The guesting limitation is a massive slap in the face for creating a strong community…