Guild Wars 2

What we need is an official guesting server so the entire base can guest there and every leveling zone can be full.

Itll be great once theres a lfg or for anyone using gw2lfg. Youll be able to organize say… an Orr event group and you can grab people from any server.

Ill be using it once the servers are back up right away to play with friends on another server – I dont dig WvW and I like my server while some of my friends wanted to go to a competitive WvW server. Guesting allowed us to do that, though I probably would have been fine transferring if Guesting wasnt an option.

The majority of reasons people will use guesting for is because of flaws in the way it was designed in the first place.

People will hop over to skip actually doing an event to get onto a server with the reward already up(Balthazar mainly).

Map overflows already offer playing with friends on different servers, the only thing that couldn’t be done was meetup with friends in zones that were not in need of an overflow.

They should have spent more time developing a better automatic layer system based on where your party is so that you are always together instead of making the user conscious of the fact that layers even exist. GuildWars had a better layer system that you could use to switch to any of the 10 layers on each map on the fly.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Its such a nothing mechanic. Everything you need to group for (dungeons/fractals) can be done easily cross server anyway.

I really think its massive fail to put so much time into producing this feature. Maybe next time it would be better to actually work on PvP and WvW more than for 5 minutes every day. You know…that huge section of the game which hasnt been updated for 5 months and the one which is dying as a result?

Grouped cross-server for dungeons in the past, other people on the other servers were trying to do the CoE event, wished I could have helped them. Guesting makes it possible for people on multiple servers to go and do something at any given time. Just because you wont use it doesn’t mean anything to myself nor anyone else that can think of ways to utilize it.

There are several reasons I see for using guesting

- You have friends on other servers (many people do due to guilds taking advantage of free transfers)

- If a particular zone on your server feels dead

- Someone organizes a “special event” on a particular server and uses a forum/other communication to invite people

- more easily find groups for fractals or dungeons

- to max out collection of Ori/other harvestable items (I dont see this as an exploit and doubt Anet does either)

- to catch dragon events/other DEs (temples, etc) when you miss them on your server

The last two, I suspect, are the reasons we are limited to 2 worlds max for guesting a day.

Overall, these are positive reasons and will only serve to widen/strengthen the GW2 community. I will play on my own server most of the time, but do see myself open to guesting. Great addition to the game, imo.

cipher.7438:

I hope you guys know this was just an excuse to terminate the free server transfers. Arenanet offers some bogus gimmick as a cover/excuse to eliminate a free service.

Anet always stated that transfer were meant to be paid since the beginning.
Free transfers are a temporary feature.

Check your facts before making up tinfoil-hat conspiracies.

It’s a GREAT mechanic for people stuck on servers with broken events keeping them from getting certain things done.

Skillpoint bugged? Guest.
Arah borked? Guest.

You get the picture….

Of course it should have been implemented the way people wanted, which is that it should have been “right click a party member” and transfer to their server….

Lordrosicky.5813:

Its such a nothing mechanic. Everything you need to group for (dungeons/fractals) can be done easily cross server anyway.

I really think its massive fail to put so much time into producing this feature. Maybe next time it would be better to actually work on PvP and WvW more than for 5 minutes every day. You know…that huge section of the game which hasnt been updated for 5 months and the one which is dying as a result?

I predict you will be wrong.. Just because you think it is a nothing mechanic doesn’t mean the other gamers won’t benefit from it.. Please remember that games are not created to evolve around 1 player.

Isslair.4908:

I don’t understand what people mean by saying “I’ll use guesting to play with mah friends”.

I mean, if you want to do dungeons – it can be done cross-server anyways.

PvP and WvW is not covered by guesting, so that’s not the case either.

So what do you want to do? Talking in LA’s map chat? Randomly running around? There’s like no content for guesting in GW2, besides the dragons\temples hopping.

You’re kidding right? I have a group of friends on a different server (I wanted more WvW, so went to one that was better). I like playing with them a lot. Not just in dungeons. Sometimes we like to compare armor looks. Or see what we think of each others dye choices. Or we see a cool player somewhere. Or feel like doing jumping puzzles. Or leveling an alt. Or just helping with story line quests. Or doing CS farming. Or yes, just running around and exploring things.

This is a feature I’m going to use 90% of the time. Bascially, when I don’t want to PVP/WvW, I’ll be guesting on that server. Just because YOU won’t use it because YOU are too boring to find things to do, doesn’t mean it’s useless.

I’m definitely going to use it to visit busier servers so I can better enjoy DEs across the world.

Lordrosicky.5813:

jazzllanna.1278:

I plan on using them.. If you are in an area with de and no one is around then why not check out another server.. especially for the orr temples!

Thats true. It will probably be frequently used by people hoping to dodge the Orr events and still get their shards for their legandaries. I forgot about that.

I shall rephrase:

Nobody will use guesting except to dodge actually playing the game and getting the reward nonetheless.

Another complete fail as this will be the most common use of the this really pointless system.

I’m not a bandwagon type person with this game. I enjoy it and yes they make plenty of mistakes, but calling guesting a fail is simply your attempt at trolling. I plan on using as I have friends on different servers and we can go and level characters together and have some fun together beyond doing dungeons.

Seriously I have no clue what you expected out of this but really this pointless banter isn’t useful for anyone.

I love how everyone is posting all these issues with guesting and how it can be exploited when I just had free server transfers for the last 5 months.

Tolmos.8395:

Bullfrog.1324:

cipher.7438:

I hope you guys know this was just an excuse to terminate the free server transfers. Arenanet offers some bogus gimmick as a cover/excuse to eliminate a free service.

I hope you realize that free server transfers were a gimmick to cover for guesting not working at launch…

This. It was known to us at headstart that free transfers were not here to stay. Though we kind of expected to get guesting a whole lot sooner than we did >_>

Wow, you fans can’t take a dry joke, can you? lol

Obviously its better to have than not. My point is its a waste of resources generally because I bet it took a ton of work and really its so insignificant.

Guesting is fine, but they really should have had it no later than one month into release. Too little, too late.

I’m looking forward to it. I don’t have to switch servers, as I like my server, but there are friends on other servers and we are looking forward to making use of this. We don’t want to move servers, as we all like our guilds and where we are currently, so sometimes when we just want to get together and do some stuff we can.

Bullfrog.1324:

I plan to use guesting to hang out on Tarnished Coast. I enjoy RP, but in moderation

Do people think that TC is just all RP all the time? You barely notice it unless you go looking for it.

What do you mean no one will use guesting, How else would someone enjoy killing the shatterer 3 times and Claw of Jormag in a little under an hour

Lordrosicky.5813:

Its such a nothing mechanic. Everything you need to group for (dungeons/fractals) can be done easily cross server anyway.

I really think its massive fail to put so much time into producing this feature. Maybe next time it would be better to actually work on PvP and WvW more than for 5 minutes every day. You know…that huge section of the game which hasnt been updated for 5 months and the one which is dying as a result?

And your prediction already failed miserably.Today i used it not only once but twice.

Yeah ANET why did you waste your time adding a convenient, easy to use, and free alternative to a permanent server transfer to play with people on other servers? You’re seriously ruining my immersion.

I actualy will i have group of friends that i plan on gesting over to all the time to play witht the. i would move but i like my guild and sever to much

Personally I’m planning to use the guesting feature as soon as I have some time to devote to playing. I’ve been wanting to try RPing in-game for a while but I’m not sure I’ll want to stick with it so I don’t want to try it and then be stuck on a different server for 7 days.

This time if I do feel like joining in I can switch over, then go back to my server whenever I want.

I guested today for about 2 hours to run around with former guildies who didn’t transfer servers when I did.

We killed a dragon and the shadow behemoth, completed a map, and did a jumping puzzle together.

Thanks Anet… I predict I’ll be using guesting from time to time.

One of the funnier posts.

Guesting has been commented on repeatedly since release. “I want to do this!”

cipher.7438:

Tolmos.8395:

Bullfrog.1324:

cipher.7438:

I hope you guys know this was just an excuse to terminate the free server transfers. Arenanet offers some bogus gimmick as a cover/excuse to eliminate a free service.

I hope you realize that free server transfers were a gimmick to cover for guesting not working at launch…

This. It was known to us at headstart that free transfers were not here to stay. Though we kind of expected to get guesting a whole lot sooner than we did >_>

Wow, you fans can’t take a dry joke, can you? lol

Poe’s law states taht on the internet, without a smiley, it is impossible to discern parody from genuine stupidity.

Pfft any friends in the same region are already on the same server.

No crossing regions turned the most awesome thing ever, into complete and utter useless garbage