Guild Wars 2

Hello there.

I, like some of you, have a guild that is transferring servers. Unfortunately, we are headed to one of the servers that is almost always full, and as such some of us have resorted to camping the World list instead of actually playing the game. Many of us are becoming frustrated, and with the lockout looming we are worried that we will have to pay, gold or actual money, in order to play with our guild mates.

“But Dornath,” you say, "Guesting means you won’t have to move servers to play with your guild!

Ahh, how right you are. Except my guild is primarily focused on WvW. If I’m stuck on IoJ and we’ve transferred to SoS, I can’t participate in the majority of the guild activities. And it’s those activities that I joined the guild to participate in!

So what I propose:

Ideal situation: Raise the server cap and/or allow server transfers for longer.

Either one of thsoe would be excellent, but I realize that both require a fair amount of work and would probably result in some outcry. Fair enough.

Useful situation: Allow us to ‘queue’ for the server we want to transfer to.

Seriously. Some people in my guild have been staying awake until 4 AM so that they can transfer servers. They have work, and lives. Yeah, we could just accept the fact that we might not make it over and fork over some fake money to do it later. But honestly? That’s crap. We deserve the right to play this game how we want, with WHOM we want. If we’re locked out of our guild’s server for arbitrary reasons there are a LOT of us who will be kitten A lot of them bought the game solely for WvW, and while we could find new guilds, why should we have to. We LIKE our guild. We don’t want to have to find new friends because we got locked out of a server.

So please ANet, help us join our friends.

“Useful situation: Allow us to ‘queue’ for the server we want to transfer to.”

That is a great suggestion.

I could also see a free server change to your main guild’s server. By main guild I mean the one that you have rep’d for the most over the last month or so. That would keep people from abusing the system as you would have to work to get a new guild to be your “main” guild. And they could still charge for any other server change.