Guild Wars 2

With the expansion coming up, is there any chance of lowering the server transfer cost? Or even better allowing returning guild members to join us on our server without gouging them?

My guild is / was an old DAoC PvP guild that became a victim of the endless server transfer fiasco during launch. Queue times etc had us chasing a moving target in server selection that left most of the guild so frustrated that they eventually quit playing.

With the new expansion many of them will be coming back hoping that WvW has improved enough to warrant their time. But now we are scattered all over the many servers we tried when transfers were free. They will never pay the outrageous cost being asked by Arena Net to get us all together again. And there is no way (that I know of) to help them.

Most of our guild members that left hate PvE. We are a PvP guild (realm vs realm) in every game we play. If their only option is to pay the server transfer cost or play PvE then they will chose the 3rd option and play another game.

I remember FF11 had an option to let guild members help get other guildies on to full servers. Perhaps GW2 can have something similar. There has to be a way to get old guild members to join us without paying an outrageous ransom.

If your friends are not interested in PvE, they may find the option to delete all their characters, and transfer to the server of choice (if not Full) at no cost. Any non-soul-bound items can be placed in their bank, which will transfer with them.

More information can be found here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World#Transferring

Good luck.

Not going to happen and too much to ask of them. Especially since it is the 3 server WvW that brought most of our players here.

Frankly, they didn’t like GW2 enough to hang around the first time. Making them repeat it isn’t going to get them to return. It is the promise of something better, and a chance to play with friends doing RvR that might though.