Guild Wars 2

Support said to post it here because apparently the devs read forums (LOL, I had a laugh at that).

My friend and I are on t2 servers in NA. For the most part, we roam in wvw at a time when roaming on our server was active but the other servers were fairly dead. We started on SoS and found plenty of roamers during our time slot, but they were from our own server. We decided to transfer to the only other t2 server that was open (TC) because it had fewer people online during the times that we wvw to hopefully have some nice competition while roaming. The problem: TC filled just after I transferred and just before my friend could.

Now, I know people are going to say “go to another server” blah blah, but T2 is where we like to be. It’s where our friends are, both on the server and off the server. It’s always fun to see a friendly face on or off the server while running around. T2 has enough activity throughout the day that if we roamed during the morning or the evening, we could find at least something happening. I honestly don’t care which T2 server we’re on, as long as we’re on the same one, but now all are full. We were in T3 previously, it was absolutely dead during the times we were in WvW. T1 is far too full.

Again, support said that I should post here about it so as to “[allow] other players to discuss and offer feedback of their own”. I could care less about what the rest of you will say and I’m fairly certain that I know what responses will be, so just as a pre-emptive counter: The top 12 EU servers have seemingly immediately become full. In NA, overnight 3 servers went from High or Very High to Full. Activity in WvW is not up, there is no question about that (and if any dev/anyone needs to be shown this, I am happy to show you, join on me in game and I will show you how dead the maps are). I’m not the only one to think that server populations are either artificially being monitored or are somehow buggy. I want a way to play the game mode I like with my friends, but now we can’t.

Until we can get on the same server, I really can’t see us playing together. PvP is fun for about an hour, two or three times a week, but it’s really not why I continued playing the game. It’s not why I bought the expansion. It’s not why I will continue to play the game. Honestly, I can’t see myself playing for too much longer if I can’t find a way to reunite with my friend. Seems a bit needy, but c’est la vie. Unfortunate server population measuring has led to some of us (read: me) being caught on the wrong sides of the Berlin wall, here. Don’t be East Germany here, Anet. Let us reunite as a family again.

I would say your best bet would be to maybe ask if you could get a server transfer ‘undo’ I highly doubt they can help you friend to move ‘up’ but might be willing to move you back ‘down’. Good luck either way, hope you guys can get back on the same server.

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

I would say your best bet would be to maybe ask if you could get a server transfer ‘undo’ I highly doubt they can help you friend to move ‘up’ but might be willing to move you back ‘down’. Good luck either way, hope you guys can get back on the same server.

Yes I would think this is the best bet, they would probably be more likely to undo your transfer than allow your friend to transfer.

Still unable to reunite. PvP’d tonight for 30 minutes. Not even close to the fun of WvW. He’s now played a total of 30 minutes over the past 3 days since we’ve been separated.

You can roam together still, friends and I did that while we were on opposing servers. “Jana, why aren’t you attacking that camp with us?” “Because it’s my servers…”
Anyway, it’s pretty hard not to hit your friend but you can troll the third server while you’re waiting for servers to open up again.

You can always try out PvP too, to play together. I mean I know that’s not ideal, but if you just run as 2 people doing small-man stuff anyway, might as well try it out right? A lot of my roaming friends have started doing much more PvP since the expansion, since roaming in the new borderlands is pretty much pointless.

And in the meantime, just watch for one of the servers to open up I guess.

Genavelle.9516:

You can always try out PvP too, to play together. I mean I know that’s not ideal, but if you just run as 2 people doing small-man stuff anyway, might as well try it out right? A lot of my roaming friends have started doing much more PvP since the expansion, since roaming in the new borderlands is pretty much pointless.

And in the meantime, just watch for one of the servers to open up I guess.

We do pvp, but that only holds out interest for so long. And I’m posting this here because in the support ticket I was told to make a thread so people can voice their opinions or some nonsense.

I’m surprised they didn’t revert your transfer. That seemed the most practical and fair solution.

Submitted a ticket asking for the transfer to be reversed. Was told this wasn’t possible.

EDIT: am told it was possible up until a week after my transfer, but since I transferred just over a week ago and, as the original support ticket mentioned, posted on the forums and waited, I am not unable to be transferred back.

Reasonably annoyed right now.

Edit again: Fixed everything. Pestered them a bit.

Melanion.4892:

Submitted a ticket asking for the transfer to be reversed. Was told this wasn’t possible.

EDIT: am told it was possible up until a week after my transfer, but since I transferred just over a week ago and, as the original support ticket mentioned, posted on the forums and waited, I am not unable to be transferred back.

Reasonably annoyed right now.

Have you pointed out to them that you were asked to post on the forums, that you followed their advice?

I’d just keep at them about it.

TC is open. Now is your friend’s chance. (SoS is open too.)