Guild Wars 2

I would love to see a Server Transfer Token that could be purchased using Guild Influence and sent to a guild member to help them switch servers to play with the guild. I used to help new members transfer quite often, but gems have become very expensive to purchase with gold and I simply cannot keep up.

I understand that the server transfer cost needs to be fairly high to preserve the integrity (ha!) of WvW, but right now it is high enough to be prohibitive to many people who would like to change for the sake of playing with a guild and receiving the advantages of the guild bonuses.

There needs to be some way for me to help guild members get to our server. Even the ability to gift a transfer token from the gem store would be nice.

You have to keep in mind that server transfer is a way for ArenaNet to generate revenue, what you are suggesting would completely remove said revenue and thus lessen the overall income, which is not really something they would want to do.

Things that are good for keeping the player base happy and in the game are good for the gemstore, too.

That would indeed be the case, if the majority of the players actually did use the gem-store.
I do however not think that is the case, and removing one of the thing that most likely generate most of the income is not really such a good idea.

Keeping players happy are important.
Being able to pay their employees is however way more important.

if server transfer can gift will be very nice.
but most of guild have a little gold.and most of new 80;s have no gold.i think change sever is no cost to a .like before.

If your a PvE player then Transfer to Lower tiers, much cheaper.
Top Tier WvW still need space for more Soldiers XD
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My point is more that people often enter the game without having a server preference, choose one at random, and begin to play there. Then, when they find a guild they would like to play with the transfer fee is expensive enough to be prohibitive, especially for a new player. Giving guilds the ability to help them transfer would be a great boon to both the players and the guilds involved.

Guild can already help.

1: Send gold to the person wanting to transfer.
2: The person trades the gold for gems.
3: The person use said gems to transfer.
4: Problem solved.

A guild usually don’t have issues getting enough gold to help someone transfer.
Unless said guild consists of very few people or people that don’t really play the game.