Guild Wars 2

Standard transfer fees

Medium: 500 Gem.png
High: 1000 Gem.png
Very High: 1800 Gem.png

link it up to the wvw rank which is why 99.99% of people transfer.

Why anybody in his /her right state of mind would transfer to Aurora Glade, Ring Of Fire, Fissure of Woe or whatever server when for the same value they can transfer to the heaven of bandwagoning: Seafarer, Desolation, Gandara ?

Like usual this will be words in the wind and lost breath, cause even the so called wvw specialist has already disappeared for this part of the forum

NA is worse. Bottum ranked server costs 20 dollars and 30 gold, and it takes lots of waiting for top ranked ones.

The transfer fee should be obviously linked to the server’s rank. The highest rated servers having the highest cost.

I would not call Desolation as the heaven of bandwagoning anymore. Surely we have gotten more than our fair share of new players and old guilds & ex-Desolators coming back (hi to vE and Ins), but we also lost some key players and guilds to other servers. I would argue that FSP is now the #1 server to migrate. FSP has a lot of players from SFR, which used to have a massive WvWvW player base (enough to fill 2 servers). Soon FSP and SFR will be married together in future match ups. Millenium org predicts them to be rank #1 and rank #2 in next reset:
http://mos.millenium.org/eu/matchups/

If you want to help a WvWvW server, please help Blacktide. They have been stuck to the bottom for many months in a row.

Seems you assume ppl are all still in gold league cause they are simply too poor to afford transfers.

pls tell me where i did this assumption, when my statement was totally another

You could just delete your heroes keep the items in your bank and remake on a new server. Its just a cost of leveling up a hero vs the cost of gem for transfer.

By saying that no one in their right mind would transfer to the low tiers for the same price. You listed suggested transfer costs based on rank and so combing these two statements you make it seem the players changing servers would transfer down if only it were cheaper.
I think ppl transfer for variety of reasons but gem cost is the least of their motivators.

Further more, even if the cheaper prices did get player to come to bronze you think we want the instability that comes with fair weather bandwagon players?

i love my server i would never change and go to any of the upper server, what i was discussing or trying to do is the fact that the actual pricing for transfer is totally wrong, you pay the same price for Seafarer rank 1 that for Fissure of Woe rank 26

a better pricing of the stransfer would help spread the player on more server and making less necessary the stacking on few server for better/fun matchup

New accounts especially should be able to try servers before deciding which one to commit to...rather unfair if they get stuck on an awful wvw server if they like wvw.

Noctifera.3746:

i love my server i would never change and go to any of the upper server, what i was discussing or trying to do is the fact that the actual pricing for transfer is totally wrong, you pay the same price for Seafarer rank 1 that for Fissure of Woe rank 26

a better pricing of the stransfer would help spread the player on more server and making less necessary the stacking on few server for better/fun matchup

I’m willing to bet money that transfer prices aren’t going to make lower tier servers more attractive for most players. I wouldn’t even take money to play on a T6 server. Unless large amounts of people coordinate transfers to opposing servers in a given tier, I doubt people will chance it and move down. WvWvW’s design tends to push the population upwards anyway.

Synosius.9876:

I think ppl transfer for variety of reasons but gem cost is the least of their motivators.

Further more, even if the cheaper prices did get player to come to bronze you think we want the instability that comes with fair weather bandwagon players?

Ofc price isn’t a factor when everything costs the same. I guess the point is for the ones transfering upwards to chose a cheaper priced server to try and even out population imbalance. It might also get people from the upper tiers to experiment more and try wvw on a lower ranked server since the price isn’t too high.

You know the fair weather bandwagoners are already in the top tiers right? Changing between the top servers every 10 min expecting a different experience :P

Deniara Devious.3948:

If you want to help a WvWvW server, please help Blacktide. They have been stuck to the bottom for many months in a row.

This.