Guild Wars 2

I for one am excited to see the transfer window closing in a week.

These here forums will be void of the server recruitment spam, and it will be glorious.

All hail death of recruiting spam!

The free transfer window is closing, not all transfers. If guilds want to save up gold and gem transfer somewhere else then they’re still going to transfer. People are still going to recruit.

Large guilds will still save up to help pay for guilds that wish to transfer to their server and fill a time slot they are weak on.

Hardly anyone will be able to afford a transfer of a decent size guild. You would be looking at 100+ gold per person on the bottom tier transfers. Since the transfer could be anywhere from 500 to 2,000 gems it would be very tough for a WvW GUILD to get that kind of gold.

We all know gold in WvW leaves a lot to be desired.

Altie.4571:

Hardly anyone will be able to afford a transfer of a decent size guild. You would be looking at 100+ gold per person on the bottom tier transfers. Since the transfer could be anywhere from 500 to 2,000 gems it would be very tough for a WvW GUILD to get that kind of gold.

We all know gold in WvW leaves a lot to be desired.

They’ve already stated that transfers will be around 5 $USD, and that it will be more expensive to transfer to higher-tier servers and less expensive to transfer to lower-tier servers. Considering that it costs 1.25 $USD to buy 100 gems, that means it’ll cost people around 400 gems to transfer (with adjustments for tier placement).

The current rate at which you can buy gems for gold is 1g 80s 86c → 100 gems. That means it’ll cost 7g 23s 44c (give or take for tier price adjustment) for one person to transfer. We’re talking around 10g per transfer here.

Getting 10g isn’t rocket science, and even the most casual player can earn that within a week if they’re frugal. If a guild of 100 people wants to transfer servers, and if we’re going to use 10g as a simple number, then we’re only looking at 1000g. Yes, only 1000g.

If the guild fronts half of the cost themselves, that’s 5g per person. I’m pretty sure a single person can earn 5g comfortably, and I’m pretty sure that an entire server (or even just a handful of guilds) can pool together 500g.

None of this is rocket science or out of the realm of casual reality. Transfers are still going to happen, just not as often. There’s still going to be recruitment, it’s just going to involve more negotiation and haggling.