Guild Wars 2

Is there an option to transfer a character from your account to another?
If not will there ever be one?

I doubt it.

But why do you want to? There might be another way to do whatever you’re trying to do.

Well, my girlfriend wanted to try playing GW2 and I let her make a character on my account. I wanted to see if it was possible so she can transfer her character to her account once she gets one.

This won’t be possible, I’m afraid.

If she gets her own account, she can remake the character there (plus at least four others!) and you get a slot back.

Most MMO’s don’t allow this because it would open up too much abuse with character selling – obviously companies would rather have people playing the game the way it was meant to than buying fully geared up level 80’s on ebay.

It’s already problematic enough with account selling alone, but at least there they can just ban the account if they can prove it has changed hands – since any sort of account transfer, whether for money or not, is against the terms of service. With character transfers on the other hand it would become a lot harder to punish character selling for real $$$ (not to mention that the people who specialize in powerleveling characters to sell them would have a far easier time if they didn’t have to restart from scratch on a new account each time).

Sadly this means in cases like yours the only thing you can do is have one person start again from scratch with a new account. Because of this I always recommend keeping “try-outs” as short as possible, so there’s no as much progress lost if they continue on a new account.

I don’t know how far your girlfriend progressed, but unless she’s really attached to the race / class combination she played, she could for example try out a different race or class on the new account to avoid retracing the exact same path, at least initially. There are 8 different classes and 5 races, each with their own lower level areas and different personal stories, so there is plenty of new stuff still to be explored.