I created a guild on opening day. Everyone in the guild that had bought the DD or CE popped their influence and we set to playing and enjoying our guild members, having a great time, and building influence along the way. Right now we have every upgrade available completed, and about 100,000 influence to spend, and we make it faster than we can possibly spend it.
We’ve been expecting to be able to guest over to visit our European friends and allies, but with the bombshell that A-Net dropped the other day, that we can’t guest across regions that possibility is gone. At this point we have full knowledge that if we are going to be able to play together someone HAS to switch servers and regions, so we have to decide who will move and to where.
Right now my guild is located on Sorrows Furnace which is in the last tier WvW and it doesn’t look to be getting any better. After we chose the server at launch the South American Hispanic community decided to make it the unofficial Spanish server and a good portion of the population doesn’t speak English in map chat or in WvW. Many of my members would like to change servers before they begin to charge for the switch and, to top it all off, the Devs tell us yesterday that content is coming that will build on the upgrade tiers that are already in place for guilds. They don’t say what, they don’t let us make any informed decisions, they just put a vague statement out there.
It really sucks that my guild can’t take what we’ve earned with us if we decide to change servers. But, starting over again with nothing wouldn’t be nearly as big a deal if we didn’t have to worry about the time involved and whether A-Net will be releasing Guild Halls as a level 6 architecture upgrade that costs 50,000 influence when we can’t produce that again for quite literally months.
Is there any way that we could get more information, QUICKLY, before paid server transfers are implemented, about what will be coming down the pike for guilds? Is there any way — a guild token vendor, anything — that would allow us to move our guild with it’s infrastructure intact to another server? Is there anything at all that the community managers can do for us to help us deal with these concerns?