Guild Wars 2

Well, I didn’t see any ‘suggestion’ subforum, so I’m throwing this idea here. Apologies.

Some of my friends have been playing GW2 lately and I wanted to join them. The problem is they are in the American datacenter while, back when the game launched, I joined an European servers to play with my friends in that region (who were the only ones playing at the time). I still play with them, so transfering my WHOLE account to the American datacenter isn’t really an option. Creating a new free account isn’t very appealing, either, since I’d lose all access to the dyes and armor looks I collected during the life of the game, not to mention all the perks given for having actually bought the game in the first place.

So I was wondering…wouldn’t it be nice at some point in the future we got a transfer system on a ‘per character’ basis besides the ‘whole account’ transfer system? So that we can play in both regions with our friends without having to start over completely from scratch? Because not having that option isn’t making me consider buying another copy of the game. Or spend money on the cash shop again. There’s no loss in money for the developers, there.

I’m not sure how you’d handle gold and other currencies if they implemented something like this, but I’d be fine with getting just a fraction moved depending on how many characters you are transfering (so if you move 1 out of 5 characters, you get a fifth of your gold/laurels/etc moved). I’d even be fine with it being determined by the level of the character (You are moving a level 80 character? You can move up to 80 gold! Or whatever). As long as cosmetics and other account-wide purchases remain available, I’m not going to be picky.

That’s about it. Can we get character transfers between datacenters one day, pretty please with a Charr plushie on top?

Such a thing isn’t possible because there are several account bound items and mechanics.
What will happen with ascended and legendary items you have and gold and currencies you earn?
Also information like Achievement Points, and the AP bonuses are account bound, so many things are account bound that I can’t see it being possible at all.
Don’t forget Guild and WvW.

Those are only impossible if we advocate for the developers to be lazy. I hope we are not doing that. So here are a few solutions (that might come with their own problems, but that’s why we are talking):

-Ascended and legendary items you have are stuck with the character that is currently carrying them. This would be the same as in every other MMO server transfer system. You just have to think what items you want in which servers.
-Gold and currencies gets split up according to how many characters you are transfering, up to a certain maximum (to avoid inflation). Any gold or currency you get in a datacenter is unique to that datacenter. So if you play a lot in the European servers you won’t get any extra gold on the American one. That las part would be the same as in every other MMO server transfer system.
-Achievement points would be carried over the first time you do a transfer. After that, each datacenter would stay separated. Achieving things in the US servers won’t increase your EU achievement points. Probably should add a warning about it asking for confirmation.
-Guilds aren’t even an issue. If you move to another datacenter, you won’t be in that guild anymore because it doesn’t exist in the new datacenter, right? Since the whole account joins the guild and not particular characters, you don’t even need to add an ‘automatic kick’ when you transfer, or even have a requisite to leave any guilds you are in except for the last character in a datacenter. This would be similar to every other MMO transfer system out there.
-I don’t WvW, but I’m fairly sure there are things that can be transfered (like rewards and points acquired up until then). As for partaking in WvW in Europe will not affect your US points because, well, it’s not the same worlds anymore.