Guild Wars 2

Is the possibility of merging worlds together even possible? To me, it would be tedious if not, incredibly hard.

Reason why it would be difficult:

• Guilds seem to be tied to worlds with their unlocks, wouldn’t moving everyone to a world, let’s go with Ebonhawke, cause those guilds to loose their unlocks?
• Imagine the surprise people get when they discover they’ve been transplanted to a world with a mix of former enemies and allies from WvW.

Reasons why it’s often mentioned.

• Too many servers at release, remove a tier by combing enough lower population worlds together so that WvW is at least challenging.

I’m not suggesting worlds be merged, I just want to hear the technical stand point and people’s opinions.

I was thinking about something similar. Not because its a good idea overall, but like you said for the lower population worlds.

I have the problem of being in a high-full population server, yet there aren’t very many WvW’ers. From what I’ve seen we are always out-manned. It’d be nice to have some way to give players in these servers a chance

Merging worlds in GW2 seems it would be a lot easier than in other games because, at least in my experience, player names are US-based, not server based, so you wouldn’t have naming conflicts. Also they could easily transfer guild upgrades to another server.

As for the technical aspects of it, I wouldn’t know, but they do allow plenty of server transfers. Doing a world merger would pretty much be just doing a mass server transfer of one to the other, however the background programming and logistics of it may be something entirely different.

Also merging servers is usually met with player criticism as a sign of a “failing game” whether or not the idea is a good one.

I can see the fledging game concept become a major critic. I think that ANET just simply made the mistake of having too many worlds but then again, I can see why. WvW battles, more worlds, more opponents.