Guild Wars 2

Sure, it goes along way from discouraging individual/casual players from transferring servers. The real problem is large guilds transferring servers in the middle of matches or just deciding they don’t like the WvW PuGs on their server. Paid transfers won’t stop large guilds from doing this. Guilds like Team Legacy and other well organized guilds have piles and piles of gold, which means that, unless they set the price exorbitantly high, they will just convert gold for gems and transfer anyway. If they set such a price they are only screwing over casual PvE players who just want to play with friends or find unbugged skill points.

The only way to help WvW, in my view, is to give people who transfer a debuff, maybe called Deserter, which renders them unable to enter WvW until the next match begins. This does nothing to prevent people from leaving a server, but at least they can’t jump on another server and turn the tide of battle or pretend they are some how a part of the win.

Anet already knows how to do this with the old GW1 Dishonor debuff. This is the same concept.

Don’t have to fully lock them out (this would penalize people really wanting to switch servers), just log the old server and lock them off opposing servers where they have to play in the first server they were in. I’ve said this quite a bit and free transfers aren’t even really the problem here.

I would rather see controlled free transfers than paid transfers.
A controlled free transfer would only open up transfers to specific servers that need the population. With the data that ANet are gathering they could identify which servers are lacking and which ones are flooded at specific times and link the two for free one way transfers. Of course this will only work of they are able to move their guild influence with them.

When I first started readin about WvWvW and their take on transfers prior to launch….it was supposed to be done like this (or so they bodly claimed):

1) Transfers cost $$ and not a trivial amount to help stop bandwagoners and promote server communties/pride.
2) Guesting was the way to find your friends and to look over other servers; as guest you can’t WvWvW on realms that are not your home server.
3) There would be a 2 week CD after transfer that would not allow you to gain WvWvW bonuses and can’t participate until that period was done.

As of now, they threw all that out the window and now we have this band wagon, FotM approach to WvWvW which has led to some down right disgustingly lopsided battles that might have actually been even if those 3 things were in game like they intially stated.

It would be nice if that – someone transfering within the first 3-4 days of a new WvW match up be barred from playing for those initial 3-4 days, especially if they have transfered off of a server to another that are now matched against each other.

It’s bad enough feeling like you’re being tagged teamed, let alone haveing “leachers” and “spies”. I could care less about the cost either way.

just make it so that people who transfer cant enter WvW till it resets

and where did it say that paid transfers will be in the gem shop?i always though it would be through the ncsoft cash shop

Many mmos limit you on the number of times you can transfer such as you can’t transfer if you have in the last 30 or 45 days. I would say make them pay real life money through Anet’s site in such a way that you can’t do it through the gem store so one would ALWAYS have to use real money and not money they can convert from gold to gems.

Or have paid transfers use a different currency than gems/gold. Like I don’t know, only make it available through real world money. Oh mah gawd, what an idea.

Just have transfers not be able to go into WvW until a new matchup.