Guild Wars 2

This may sound crazy but add in some restrictions and it could work.
- One earned every year with a limit of having only one at a time
- The timer restarts after the one free transfer is used not after its initally earned
- Said transfer cannot occour on a t2 or higher server
- Said transfer cannot be used during or a month before any wvw tourney

Anyways just an idea geared towards people returning to a potantal dead server or returning to a server where they have no friends/guilds remaining

Just add a “returning player” transfer item that triggers off 6months not logged in.

It does sound crazy…for ANet…given the below perspective:

After the 1 Free Transfer…players will use gems.

If you remove or restrict players being able to Transfer using gems…ANet will suffer gem sales.

Gem sales indirectly drive ANet’s ability to make a profit…and survive as a business.

There’s a better Long Term solution…that lets Players decide who they want to play with that’s from any server…and to deal with Population In-Balance…use a game design that allows & takes advantage of these things…imho

By no means am i suggesting to limit gem transfers on top of this, simply giving each player a reasonable means to change servers on a reasonable base to follow friends/family… on a reasonable timeline. Anyone that server hops would need way more that 1 transfer a year to do what they do now. However the above mentioned “returning player” transfer after 6 months or something around like that would work as well.

I don’t think a free transfer would help the current state of wvw.

Metaservers in wvw would be another option.

Meh make it from this point on,
Every existing account that never transferred, gets a free transfer.
Accounts that upgraded from free accounts already get a free transfer when they upgrade.
Every account that has transferred at least once, has their next transfer cost 1000 gems.
Every transfer on the account after that goes up in increments of 500 gems, to a cap of 5000 gems.

If eventually you get to the 5000 gems cap you might as well just buy a new account and restart the transfer cost.

The increment cost has been mentioned before I’m sure, just putting it out there again.

You are asking for what is basically 500 gems for each player each year, just to put that into perspective a bit, I would like to remind you that we are supposed to consider ourselves lucky when they give us a free repair canister as a thankyou. Also look at the achievement tiers rewards, A whopping 2g for 29.5k AP, basically its just not Anets style to be generous.