Guild Wars 2

I think a better time frame would be 3 days. This game is slowly dying and you can see the population decreasing over time. With less population people are going to want to move to those with a higher population and more people to play with. As it stands at the moment if you go to a server that is dying/dead you are going to be in for a very lonely week by yourself.

If you want to move from a less populated server to high populated, I see no difference between 1 week and 3 days, as it’s supposed to be a rather permanent move.
And then 1 week before being able to jump to the next isn’t bad.

In fact, I think 1 week is way too low still.

Game is dying? News to me.

Populations always decrease after a game launches. Perfectly normal, and best of all, expected.

Well, apparently the game is dying. I read it on the official forums, so it must be true!

The fact that they even allow you to transfer for free is amazing, a day, a week or a month restriction on it is completely fair.

The game is definitely not dying, It’s just gotten over the launch bump, every game goes through this.

Ahh a ‘the game is dying’ post. No it isn’t, join a good guild and/or do some research before you move to another server.

Should be once a month, minimum.

In my opinion it’s far too often. If they’ll let the transfer at 1 week and also the matches in a 1 week rotation, than you have to get a bann for wvwvw from at least 2 weeks. As i think it over it should be a bann which moves around 1 month.
With this high banns from WvWvW it’s possible to get a certain balance in player numbers for WvWvW and stop the hopping to the winners site.

1 week is too short, we need longer period to stop bandwagoning.

Stop running and start fighting.

Honestly? I’m happy the new “once in 7 days” rule prevented another user from fleeing a sinking ship.

No offense, Bunzy, but I don’t think you should leave your server because activity is a little low, but rather work on re-activating people’s spirits

I guess this is why ArenaNet held off on making transfers 7 days. It was inevitable that some kitten was going to start a QQ thread about it. Can’t wait till they close transfers…..

You’ve had how long to prepare??

Oh no, I guess I won’t be able to server hop and screw things over everywhere every 24 hours!

They should be longer cool downs on Xfers like 2 weeks or a month until it costs $$ to move.

Make it 3 days but cost’s $25 and you got a deal!!

Game is dying? News to me.

Populations always decrease after a game launches. Perfectly normal, and best of all, expected.

I read the same sentence in the Swtor forum one year ago xD

Wothan.4673:

Game is dying? News to me.

Populations always decrease after a game launches. Perfectly normal, and best of all, expected.

I read the same sentence in the Swtor forum one year ago xD

that game had so many more issues than gw2 does. plus there was the sub. gw2 is free so people can come and go. Im sure people will come back when the Nov event starts. Plus we all have to keep in mind that a lot of other games have come out lately, and Black Ops 2 next week, so we’re probably gonna see a drop in population for a few weeks.

next thing you know 24 hour transfers are “Too Long” Also……..

tbh, Im glad they done 1 week transfers (I’m hoping 1 month transfers, and in the future to see paid transfers to stop bandwagoning).

Wothan.4673:

Game is dying? News to me.

Populations always decrease after a game launches. Perfectly normal, and best of all, expected.

I read the same sentence in the Swtor forum one year ago xD

Impressive, it wasn’t even out yet at this time last year :p

The height of the population per server was during the holloween event so I wouldnt say the game is dying
transfers should be 30 day free 7 day pay

It should be 30 days for 25$, or 3 days and a 30 day lockout from WvW which can be cumulative.

Bunzy.8674:

I think a better time frame would be 3 days. This game is slowly dying and you can see the population decreasing over time. With less population people are going to want to move to those with a higher population and more people to play with. As it stands at the moment if you go to a server that is dying/dead you are going to be in for a very lonely week by yourself.

It really only hurts the crossrealmers for WvW. Pver’s, it doesn’t affect nearly as much since it takes about a week to truly figure out if a server is alive in zones that you or me care about.

IMO the week long lockout is too short, it should be 1 month. If you haven’t figured out what your server is and how it suits your needs, then that is a problem that you won’t find a solution to until you personally change.

I guess we better go ahead and combine servers while primetime wvw queues are 3+ hours long.

It’s still too short.

we had a guild leave our server after fighting with us that week. fight against us AND then rejoin in the same week to fight with us again. just no

Longevity is in community and a sense of us v them

well, the best way is put restriction on joining wvw matches to whoever transferred to another server. maybe like block the player from joining WvW for 7 days after server transfer. And shorten the cooldown for free server transfer for 3 days. Everyone happy, no exploits.

make all payed transfers exept to lower populated servers

And the funny thing is this thread is inside WvW section. want to shorten the cooldown so can exploit more? lol

The problem is people changing servers more often than their underwear, always moving to the win servers, until they are totally overcrowded. 1 week isn’t nearly enough, make it 1 month to stop losers killing this game.

server xfers needs to be longer out. Like 2-3 weeks instead of 1 week.

one week is not even enough if people would stop moving around we wouldn’t have that problem

Tranfsers should only be allowed every 60 days and cost $10 to move in my opinion; unless it’s from a high to low population server.

Too short. 30 to 60 days. Or, if you want every day, transfer every 24 hours but you are banned from WvW for 30 days max each time.

EDIT: Stay on your server and build a community. Transferring to improve your WvW game is really just taking advantage of a good feature put in this game for PVE players. Learn to lose. Learn to win graciously. Quit watching the score and just play the game.

Scrapping free transfers like they originally planned would be best.

Transfers should be every 2-3 days for PvE

Transfers should be locked out of WvW for 1+ week

PvE people are happy, PvP people are happy

Dont see the logic here or where you got the game is dying. I see new people everyday, just like I’ve seen people quit. Sure pop always decreases a few months after launch that is normal.

And if you are going to transfer from a server that is supposedly dying to a higher pop server, do you really need to do it once every 3 days? even if the game is dying that’s more than you’ll ever need. It is probably the other way around; people are jumping from servers to servers that some servers die one week, and get a population surge in the other…because transfers can be done way too soon.

So you are seeing population decrease due to transfers not due to the game dying. Of course a simple solution is to transfer to one of the top servers, or transfers to one of the servers that has a loyal population that do not quit when they lose and come back when the server is winning. Personally I have settled with Yaks Bend since it’s the only non-full server I have been on that has a big, strong loyal population that never quits.

I’d rather have a 7 day lockout of WvW. Seeing that this game has no subs it’s just a matter of them really fixing thing for people to come back. I wish they would realize that there is quite a bit more stock in WvW and plan changes.

This is the first week I’ve not seen blowouts in scores (400k+ vs <50k). The only teams not making 100k this week are HD and ET which is a shame but forum discussion reported server transfers severely affecting those servers.

The ladder looks much more stable with only a little bit of movement in the middle. This gives a good indication that introducing 7 day transfers has made a positive improvement.

I’m still not completely convinced that 7 days is enough to stop major movements between servers. Fortnightly to monthly transfers would give even more stability to WvWvW. As stated above, a lock out period for WvW after transfers would be a good deterrent for avid WvW players and still allow PvE players to play on the same server.

If you transfer to a new server you’re going to want to leave it within 7 days? That’s hard to believe unless you’re blindly picking servers out of a hat or you have other reasons for wanting a lower wait time you’re not telling us. It should require at least a 1 month wait and have to pay after the 1st one.

I expected people saying GW2 is dying earlier tbh. But it’s not, 1 week is fine. ^-^

Sooo many mixed opinions, some people want to transfer within a day, some every 7 days, some every 28 days… I can only imagine how tough for Arenanet making changes to a game would be…

I guess you just hope that MOST people would be happy.

Then again, on the forums, the minority cry out the loudest!

Fix guesting, put a cooldown on entering WvW after transfering, and make transfering paid.

Wothan.4673:

Impressive, it wasn’t even out yet at this time last year :p

Nearly one month :/

Anyway, the pop of serv french seem to having a big drop :/

it came out november 11th. beta testing=/=game release.

You misspelled short.

The longer you put the transfer time the more people will flock to the winning servers. You think if they made it 30-60 days people would even try a low pop server? No they wouldn’t they would go for all the top tier servers. I guess that’s what I am going to have to do in order to have people to play with. I guess to the winning servers we go……. If they made it 3 days I would be willing to try other low pop servers in order to find a group of people to play with, however i am not waiting one week.

In my opinion they needt o start charging for transfers. If your not on a server your comfortable with yet then you got bigger issues.

No, if anything, make it once a month. If you’re changing servers more than once a month there’s something wrong, or you failed to do any forum research beforehand.

mjharrison.3209:

No, if anything, make it once a month. If you’re changing servers more than once a month there’s something wrong, or you failed to do any forum research beforehand.

Agreed. Once a week still allows too much ‘farming’ which is all that’s really going on. Major guilds are still server hopping and influencing Wv3 matchups too much.

Bunzy.8674:

The longer you put the transfer time the more people will flock to the winning servers. You think if they made it 30-60 days people would even try a low pop server? No they wouldn’t they would go for all the top tier servers. I guess that’s what I am going to have to do in order to have people to play with. I guess to the winning servers we go……. If they made it 3 days I would be willing to try other low pop servers in order to find a group of people to play with, however i am not waiting one week.

Yes, because everyone will flock to the top tier servers to play the queue game instead. Limiting transfers stabilizes the population on servers. Just because you need to transfer constantly to find a “good” server doesn’t mean it’s right for everyone. Find a guild and people to play with. It takes longer than 3 days to evaluate a server anyway.

I am really hoping they keep this free transfer BS going for another month or two. I am hoping after a few more losses the only ones left on my server will be me, the cricket and that one creepy guy…

Get rid of the free transfers already anet. The population flux ever week or two is getting seriously irritating.

I just realised I am going to miss getting ~60 badges a day from jumping puzzles.

Day 1

Do jumping puzzles on all 4 maps
Find and join a dominant server
Do jumping puzzles on all 4 maps

BONUS: New build available, do jumping puzzles on all 4 maps again! xD

Day 2

Repeat

snifflez

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