Guild Wars 2

When it was first introduced it was 40 Gold to move to Underworld

Now 1800 Gems is much much higher… 40 gold was too much back then for anyone who is casual and wants a new server. 25g should be max i think or separate to gem prices because Gem prices are currently majorly inflated

Anet are basically trying to force players into buying gems with real money by making the ingame price impossible for all but the highest farmers to earn. its a smart marketing strategy but highly unethical since by spamming the cash shop with items for limit times only that players will want it forces more gold into the gem market making the price go up and up

Some players were lucky and have 1000s of gold so don’t need to worry about it, most of us don’t have that luxury.

The thing is anet doesnt want people to change servers all the time. So it has to be expensive. 25g is too cheap. I can most likely farm that in less than 5 hours by playing dungeons.

It’s their business strategy and if you didn’t see it coming from miles away, even before GW2 was released, I don’t know what to tell you.

A little unethical, yes. But highly lucrative.

Malediktus.9250:

The thing is anet doesnt want people to change servers all the time. So it has to be expensive. 25g is too cheap. I can most likely farm that in less than 5 hours by playing dungeons.

They should want players to transfer servers all the time, if they are interested in the state of WvW.

Server populations should be balanced rather than lopsided, and this can only be done through having transfer costs be based on what tier a server is in.

WvW is not meant to be balanced.

Its currently off server population but high population does not mean high wvw so those servers with high pop but not high wvw will never get higher due to transfers.

Infact a good example is the servers around mine recently got a lot of players from SFR and Deso because moving to our server would be far to expensive for a large group

Now we will drop tiers and wont ever get any transfers because we have more pve that wvw guys on here keeping our population to high for transfers.

Transfers are for WvW only, guesting is for PvE but transfer cost is based off Pve and wvw population. should really be based off the servers average tier over the last X weeks so a server cant drop for a week and get transfers and pop back up

The cost could be something like 20g basic rate then 3gX the number ranks they are from the bottom.

Higher Tiers would be around 70g+ while bottom servers 23g. Bandwagoning is expensive, but moving down to a lower tier server is much cheaper instead of the current.

It’s only 500 gems to transfer to a medium pop server you know.

Aren’t Deso and SFR now Medium pop servers due to transfers? and they are still tier1 or 2

Server pop != need transfer help in wvw.