Guild Wars 2

Much was said (during the pre-purchase period) by Arena Net about “guesting” and being able to play with your friends in any server, whenever you wanted, but that (pretty fundamental, IMO) “social” feature has yet to see the light of day.

Its absence wasn’t a big issue, because transfers remained free and were generally quick enough, so they were effectively making up for it.

But now, with the new 24-hour cooldown on world transfers (which was supposedly put in place to address some WvW exploits, but affects PvE players as well – why didn’t Arena Net simply make it a WvW cooldown?), I am unable to play with my friends as I used to.

I used to play in an EU server for a couple of hours in the evening and then transfer to a US server to play a couple more hours after midnight, when the EU server got practically deserted. Now I’m basically forced to choose between the two, which frankly (coupled with all the dungeon bugs) is making me lose interest in the game.

So, is “guesting” coming any time soon? Or will Arena Net at least replace the blanket 24-hour cooldown on server transfers with a cooldown that only affects WvW, and still lets PvE players play with their friends on other servers, as promised before launch?

Exact same issue with me….Not to be a jerk but they really shouldn’t have said “When it’s ready…” when a really advertised aspect wasn’t ready. =(

WvW exploits?

I thought the server transfer limitations were to counter the people who would transfer from one server to another, farming chests / crafting materials, repeatedly?

Jestunhi.7429:

WvW exploits?

I thought the server transfer limitations were to counter the people who would transfer from one server to another, farming chests / crafting materials, repeatedly?

As far as I understood this was exactly the reason for it- maybe the confusion is because it coincided with the longer wvwvw matches. I know of a couple of people who server jumped like a bunch of frogs.
The sooner the servers settle down to a more permanent population, the sooner they will be locked and the sooner we will have guesting.

Ya, it was PVE that stopped it, and prob’ly what’s holding them back from permitting guesting. If you transfer (or guest) to another server, all the long-cooldown resources are fresh and new.

Now… doncha think they could just fix long-cooldown resources?

There’s a trend w this game that instead of fixing what’s wrong, they plop in a kludge work-around (e.g. the ranger pet revive kludge, the dungeon DRs,…)