Guild Wars 2

Since the reply I received from the support email told me to post this here I figured I would do so.

I request that you remove the gem transfer cost and restrictions to the lower populated servers to entice players from larger populated servers to join and help make the season more challenging and more fun for everyone.

For the EU, the servers that appear to be most in need are: Fissure of Woe, Whiteside Ridge, Underworld and perhaps Vabbi, but they’ve had some transfers and seem to be doing okay right now so maybe lowered transfer cost rather than free for them. (If someone from Vabbi disagrees, please say so in this thread so the devs can judge for themselves)

For the NA servers, by the ratings it looks like Kaineng, Ehmry Bay, and Eredon Terrace could use the free transfers but if someone from NA could confirm, that would be great.

Giving these servers free transfers should help even out the matchups and provide a place for players in the higher matchups to go if they feel that they are being stuck in queues too often. From what I’ve seen from the EU side, these servers are very friendly and the players that have stayed are loyal and fiercely fighting despite the lack of numbers.

Also, mods, please refrain from moving this to the recruitment board, this is about reducing the costs and the recruitment board already has threads active for these servers. Thanks!

Anyway, that was all – feel free to add feedback and discuss.

Transfer costs based on TargetRank-SourceRank (currently within the league) would definitely make more sense then costs just on Target, such that you pay more if you transfer up (in the league), and (nearly) nothing if you transfer down.

But “removal of transfer costs” is a bad idea, it just leads to even more WTJ stacking.

A trickle down system of transferring would work, too. I just stated these ones being in need of free (or at least very cheap) transfers because they are genuinely struggling in this tournament, the population difference between the 1st to 6th place servers and the 7th-9th place servers is huge (based on the EU bronze league)

Yeah removing transfer costs was a really good idea. Ask any Gandaran who’s sitting in 2 hour queue every night.

Tom Gore.4035:

Yeah removing transfer costs was a really good idea. Ask any Gandaran who’s sitting in 2 hour queue every night.

2 hours if you’re lucky enough not to dc or for the queue system to bug out.

Everyone from BG decides to transfer to Kaineng.
Server becomes stacked and face rolls all the other servers back to top.

psizone.8437:

Since the reply I received from the support email told me to post this here I figured I would do so.

I request that you remove the gem transfer cost and restrictions to the lower populated servers to entice players from larger populated servers to join and help make the season more challenging and more fun for everyone.

For the EU, the servers that appear to be most in need are: Fissure of Woe, Whiteside Ridge, Underworld and perhaps Vabbi, but they’ve had some transfers and seem to be doing okay right now so maybe lowered transfer cost rather than free for them. (If someone from Vabbi disagrees, please say so in this thread so the devs can judge for themselves)

For the NA servers, by the ratings it looks like Kaineng, Ehmry Bay, and Eredon Terrace could use the free transfers but if someone from NA could confirm, that would be great.

Giving these servers free transfers should help even out the matchups and provide a place for players in the higher matchups to go if they feel that they are being stuck in queues too often. From what I’ve seen from the EU side, these servers are very friendly and the players that have stayed are loyal and fiercely fighting despite the lack of numbers.

Also, mods, please refrain from moving this to the recruitment board, this is about reducing the costs and the recruitment board already has threads active for these servers. Thanks!

Anyway, that was all – feel free to add feedback and discuss.

I understand that Vabbi is doing better then what it used to do, but trust me when I say this, I’m one of Vabbi’s dedicated WvW players and Vabbi hasn’t had any major transfers before or after the leagues started. We’ve had one guild (10 players) and a few roamers (5 or so) transfer in.

Vabbi has built a community and is working with the same numbers as before and that’s why we’ve pushed our self out of T9.

I understand that FoW, WSR, UW have lost a lot of players before the leagues, mostly them moving to Gandara & and the likes, for “better” WvW.

I’ve been fighting for more transfers for Vabbi for the better part of a year, and yes how I do agree “we’re” still the lowest pop server EU, I dont want that to change. Or Vabbi will end up like every other server… KARMA TRAIN!.

Small Scale is where its at, and Vabbi is more than willing to provide that for us!

If they remove server transfer fees we will see far more bandwagon servers that implode on a whim filled with “winners” not a good thing for wvw stability or appeal. This would cause far more problems that it would actually solve.

underworld is a dead server thanks to these free transfers so i agree to make the low pop server free to transfer to. But why would anyone want to transfer to a dead server. The answer know one will, just making it free will not make anyone move so nothing will change and underworld will lose more and more people untill there is no one left.
Anet have no chose but to merge low pop servers together that is there only option and they know it.

YuGiOh.4906:

I understand that Vabbi is doing better then what it used to do, but trust me when I say this, I’m one of Vabbi’s dedicated WvW players and Vabbi hasn’t had any major transfers before or after the leagues started. We’ve had one guild (10 players) and a few roamers (5 or so) transfer in.

Vabbi has built a community and is working with the same numbers as before and that’s why we’ve pushed our self out of T9.

I understand that FoW, WSR, UW have lost a lot of players before the leagues, mostly them moving to Gandara & and the likes, for “better” WvW.

I’ve been fighting for more transfers for Vabbi for the better part of a year, and yes how I do agree “we’re” still the lowest pop server EU, I dont want that to change. Or Vabbi will end up like every other server… KARMA TRAIN!.

Small Scale is where its at, and Vabbi is more than willing to provide that for us!

My apologies, I didn’t mean to offend. I always loved fighting Vabbi before all these tournaments because Vabbi was mainly a roamer/havoc server and it was easy to get great fights.

I assumed you had more than 10 players join since the few weeks before the tournament and it looked as though you guys had some serious buffing, I had never seen you guys pull out those kinds of numbers in a very long time.

Either way, I added you guys to that list when I posted since I wasn’t too sure of your actual numbers.

Nick.6972:

Everyone from BG decides to transfer to Kaineng.
Server becomes stacked and face rolls all the other servers back to top.

Pretty much.

psizone.8437:

YuGiOh.4906:

I understand that Vabbi is doing better then what it used to do, but trust me when I say this, I’m one of Vabbi’s dedicated WvW players and Vabbi hasn’t had any major transfers before or after the leagues started. We’ve had one guild (10 players) and a few roamers (5 or so) transfer in.

Vabbi has built a community and is working with the same numbers as before and that’s why we’ve pushed our self out of T9.

I understand that FoW, WSR, UW have lost a lot of players before the leagues, mostly them moving to Gandara & and the likes, for “better” WvW.

I’ve been fighting for more transfers for Vabbi for the better part of a year, and yes how I do agree “we’re” still the lowest pop server EU, I dont want that to change. Or Vabbi will end up like every other server… KARMA TRAIN!.

Small Scale is where its at, and Vabbi is more than willing to provide that for us!

My apologies, I didn’t mean to offend. I always loved fighting Vabbi before all these tournaments because Vabbi was mainly a roamer/havoc server and it was easy to get great fights.

I assumed you had more than 10 players join since the few weeks before the tournament and it looked as though you guys had some serious buffing, I had never seen you guys pull out those kinds of numbers in a very long time.

Either way, I added you guys to that list when I posted since I wasn’t too sure of your actual numbers.

It’s mainly our PvE guilds coming out to play for achievements. xD