Guild Wars 2

If i understand things with “guesting” you can go to other worlds/realms and even join guilds. I at one stage must have been on Sorrows Furnace where i was asked to join a guild (which i did). Found it difficult to do guild activities and access guild bank but could send stuff to guild members. Eventually found out that they were on Sorrow’s Furnace and i was on Stormbluff Isle. Why does Arenanet allow “Guesting” but then punish individuals for joining guilds on different worlds? So since the Guild had allot of nice people in it and i was high up in it i wanted to remain with the guild. What a MISTAKE. They want to take your money $30.00 USD/2500 gems for World transfer then again punish you for moving to another world. Double dipping here we are. So to Arena Net i read you didn’t want to be like WOW have no fear in WOW you were never punished for a World change. Don’t give with one hand and take away with the other. I love the game and yes it is better than WOW except for this. Let people enjoy the game not suffer for being with friends.

Oh and by the way i did not change to be on the “winning” team. I changed to be with some nice people i met. I have only done WvW and have not been on a winning team yet – does not bother me i like the challenge

What punishment? Are you referring to the two-Friday wait before being able to enter WvW? Because that isn’t a ‘punishment’, but rather a way to prevent people from being able to bandwagon.

The root problem here is that ArenaNet intends to but has not yet unified guild chapters. The only determining factor of your home server should just be World versus World, but currently you can not receive guild upgrades or contribute influence if you’re not on the same server.

At some point they will fix that but it hasn’t happened yet.

Hi

I have just noticed this issue as well. I bought the game on release and joined a server and then stopped playing for a period of time. Then I started playing last month with someone I met in another game who I found out also had GW2. We persuaded another person from that game to buy gw2 and have been playing quite a bit.

The problem being is I am stuck on different server from them and of course the server they are on happens to cost 2,400 gems and it would cost me £30 to transfer.
I’m not really interested in pvp/wvw at the moment, nor are they though of course maybe someday we might be. We only just noticed this issue when it came to us setting up a guild and realising we weren’t jointly contributing to it.

Of course the last post gives me hope and hopefully this is something they look at doing very soon.

Don’t get me wrong I guess there is a point behind the high cost but £30 is a high price to pay just for a transfer to share guild resources…

Smudge.2650:

Hi

I have just noticed this issue as well. I bought the game on release and joined a server and then stopped playing for a period of time. Then I started playing last month with someone I met in another game who I found out also had GW2. We persuaded another person from that game to buy gw2 and have been playing quite a bit.

The problem being is I am stuck on different server from them and of course the server they are on happens to cost 2,400 gems and it would cost me £30 to transfer.
I’m not really interested in pvp/wvw at the moment, nor are they though of course maybe someday we might be. We only just noticed this issue when it came to us setting up a guild and realising we weren’t jointly contributing to it.

Of course the last post gives me hope and hopefully this is something they look at doing very soon.

Don’t get me wrong I guess there is a point behind the high cost but £30 is a high price to pay just for a transfer to share guild resources…

I’m not sure you will consider this ‘soon’, but it has been announced that this update will be implemented by December 2014.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-megaserver-system-guilds-and-the-future/

Bluntmebro.6815:

If i understand things with “guesting” you can go to other worlds/realms and even join guilds. I at one stage must have been on Sorrows Furnace where i was asked to join a guild (which i did). Found it difficult to do guild activities and access guild bank but could send stuff to guild members. Eventually found out that they were on Sorrow’s Furnace and i was on Stormbluff Isle. Why does Arenanet allow “Guesting” but then punish individuals for joining guilds on different worlds? So since the Guild had allot of nice people in it and i was high up in it i wanted to remain with the guild. What a MISTAKE. They want to take your money $30.00 USD/2500 gems for World transfer then again punish you for moving to another world. Double dipping here we are. So to Arena Net i read you didn’t want to be like WOW have no fear in WOW you were never punished for a World change. Don’t give with one hand and take away with the other. I love the game and yes it is better than WOW except for this. Let people enjoy the game not suffer for being with friends.

Though this has been an issue for sometime, it is more of an issue now, with megaservers, as the above poster said, they intend to fix it, but no time soon.

As an aside, unless you want to play on a different WvW side, i dont suggest you switch servers at all, they essentially serve very little purpose now. The team needs to come up with some new messaging/functionality/concepts around servers now that they have megaservered.

Thank you for all your information. I have made the change. Just don’t see the point of the penalty when you have to pay for the change anyway. Though i do understand that some people would change just to be on a “winning” team. Not me.