Guild Wars 2

I’m locked out of the game with no existing characters.

Just curious..

You are not locked out of the game. You can create characters if you want to.

The reason is because being able to freely transfer everyday would more or less completely destroy WvW, just like it did back in the days.

There is no logical reason for people to change server multiple times per week.

Seems a little procedural when I have no characters to participate in WvW with.

Thanks anyway.

You can participate in WvW with a lvl 2 character. Therefore it is rather irrelevant that you currently don’t have one.

I wasn’t aware. I don’t PvP.

Even with the seven day limit, it still destroys WvW. It should be a month, IMO.

You do not need server transfers for PvE, so do not bother. Content in the PvE game currently all exists in one “multiverse” where players from separate servers are filtered into multiple instances of Tyria based upon map population. In other words, you only get segregated from other players if the map is full.

Even then, you can join guilds and parties to “hop” to another instance even if the instance does not originate from the same server as your character.

If you don’t WvW then the only reason to change servers is to go from one date group to another (switch between NA and EU). The game has Megaservers and all the PVE and PvP from each data group is rolled together. Each map will have a number of shards (copies) on at one time depending on the number of people on it. All the servers are on those shards together. The game will try to put people of the same servers, parties, friends, guilds on the same shard but otherwise it’s a mixture of everyone in the data group.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-megaserver-system/

So, since you don’t WvW unless you are switching between NA and EU, just pick a server and make a character.

I’m switching, but thank you for the information.

I’ve given up hope of them ever bridging the NA and EU gap… this late in the game people shouldn’t have to delete all characters to play with another locale.

Oh well.

Hannelore.8153:

I’ve given up hope of them ever bridging the NA and EU gap… this late in the game people shouldn’t have to delete all characters to play with another locale.

Oh well.

People don’t HAVE to.
You can do like most people and buy a transfer with gems.

As for the gap it is most likely due to technology available to them.
The EU and the NA server data are on two different data-centers after all.

lordkrall.7241:

Hannelore.8153:

I’ve given up hope of them ever bridging the NA and EU gap… this late in the game people shouldn’t have to delete all characters to play with another locale.

Oh well.

People don’t HAVE to.
You can do like most people and buy a transfer with gems.

As for the gap it is most likely due to technology available to them.
The EU and the NA server data are on two different data-centers after all.

They said that this (the separate datacenter issue) was already solved back around the China release, but we never heard anything about it after that.

Hannelore.8153:

They said that this (the separate datacenter issue) was already solved back around the China release, but we never heard anything about it after that.

Source?