Guild Wars 2

I’m going to post this here as well as in the WvW section. Server transfers are totally destorying WvW. Why are you still allowing them ArenaNet? It makes no sense. It’s obvious that most people are lazy and rather than try to improve WvW on their server they will just flee to one that is better thus ruining WvW on many of the servers.

This should have been stopped long ago and is way overdue. Make it happen or face losing the PVP crowd you do have left

And what if the server that a person is on happens to be one that the majority of the playerbase doesn’t care to win at WvWvW, or even take part in it in the first place?

What you are suggesting is essentially telling that player “tough schnitt buddy”.

And whilst you could possibly argue that a player should have done some research before deciding on a server, just remember that perhaps that player didn’t originally intend to get involved in WvWvW.

In short: the situation is a double edged sword. However, I believe that server transfers have a cooldown don’t they?

Not yet,

There are issues with Multi-home Guild Gameplay (partying, influence etc etc, not sure if these have been addressed).

Furthermore, no one can really improve PvP in servers that have big PVE populations… it has nothing to do with laziness, it is a matter of preference. Cannot force people to PvP if they do not like it.

The only solution is to transfer.

My guild is considering it and we may move in the coming days. We are scouting for a new Home.

Cheers!

When they remove WvW from map completion, perhaps then a discussion over ending transfers could start, until then, no. =/

Just generally preventing people from server jumping isn’t the answer, however someone else made a good suggestion:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Limit-free-server-transfers-to-once-every-two-weeks/first#post423869

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Limiting transfers hurt PvE players, so any solution should address the needs of PvE and WvW The 1x/day cap means I can no longer play with friends who have guilds on different worlds, as was possible during the first few weeks.

If the issue is increasing stability for WvW, then how about limiting the benefits of people who jump worlds.

• They get no Power of the Mists from any world until the matches reset.
• They cannot play WvW from the two worlds competing against their original server.

This prevents griefing and spying, while allowing people to look for WvW servers with reduced queuing time. It also has little impact on PvE.

And it’s completely compatible with guesting.

They should charge money for server transfers. Then they need to implement the guest system that they promised so that people can join other player’s servers for PvE purposes.

They’ve said that world transfers, when the game is running at “longevity” speed, will cost a certain amount of gems based on server population, and that there will be a cooldown on frequency of transfers (I believe something like 2weeks, the average length of a WvW battle, as was previously stated). Apparently, WvW is still finalizing things, and so we still have the free transfers, though now with a day cd.

Now, granted, things could have changed, but for now I don’t believe so.

Free server transfer = badge of honor farm !!!

Bots, gold sellers, and free transfers killing this game. People with one guild are playing against each other on WvWvW and farm badges of honor during WvWvW. Anet please do something about it! ( sry for bad eng )

Just make it a 3 day waiting period.

Free transfers are kitten and skew the accuracy of server statuses against each other. People just transfer to the winning servers and leave the ones who are just beginning to falter and make it just that much harder for them to catch up.

Before you know it a single server outnumbers both of its opponents by increadible ratios.