Gem Cost for Server Transfer
Well, being that a server transfer would only be needed for wvw I think it’s a fair price. If you don’t want to pay you can always use the new guesting feature.
For 1000 gems you should be able to transfer to a full server. 1800 gems for a very high server? Really?
This is turning into an EA cash cow. Hello EAnet.
Still waiting for the things I love about GW1.
Personally I think they’re just really trying to discourage all those WvW guilds from jumping ship every week. If they made it too low them it’d be a joke.
Plus with the addition of guesting, the only thing you CAN’T do on EVERY server out there regardless of your home server, is WvW.
So really, why should anyone want to move servers now? Period. PERIOD. There’s no reason to other than to play WvW on a different server.
Good job Anet! I welcome this change whole-heartedly. Now people have to stick to a server for better or worse. This will finally actually build up community around the servers as being a HOME.
Is the price based upon the current population listing in the UI window? Or some other factor like total number of accounts on that server?
‘Cause if it’s the former I worry that they’re too low.
Uh-oh… another “nice” surprise… the cost should be based on top character lever, account age and SO ON!!!
Sure would of been nice to know that they where adding cost today because i have 2 other accounts to transfer ( my sons ) and I am not paying 1800 × 2
Sure would of been nice to know that they where adding cost today because i have 2 other accounts to transfer ( my sons ) and I am not paying 1800 × 2
You must have missed the newspost and sticky saying they were turning off free transfers. It`s your own fault.
I think this is a good cost. In my head when they announced it I was thinking 500,1000,1500. So I was right other than the high cost is a lil more. This encourages people to go to the lower population servers to try and level out the population. Also it discourages guilds from all transfering to a high pop server when it is going to cost them $20+ worth of gems. That said I can make enough gold in 3-4 weeks to exchange for 1800 gems so it could probably be a little higher. Believe it would be about 30-35 gold at current exchange rates.
Not to mention that the exact system implemented has been known to be coming since before pre-purchase became available last April.
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Guardian
Medium: 500
High: 1000
Very High: 1800Do we need this high gem cost?
The cost should be much higher!
Something like this:
Medium: 1000
High: 2000
Very High: 3000
Switching servers should not be something players do on a whim …
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The only thing I can suggest to Anet on this matter would be if you are transfering from a higher population server to a lower population server, I think you should get a discount. So like right now it is 500, 1000, 1800 right? So say you are in a very high server and you are transfering to a medium server I think instead of 500 gems it should give you a 50% discount so it’d only be 250 gems. This would encourage people to transfer out of the larger servers and fill up the less-populated servers if they were not happy with their server because then the servers that are very taxed by all the people playing WvW would get a break and the ones that don’t have enough people that WvW would get some more eager players to participate.
Since obviously WvW is the only reason to transfer (everything else can be done through guesting) then it’d eventually even out all of the servers to being medium to high instead of a few very high and a few low.
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