Guild Wars 2

Kills WvW too much. A good match up turns into ‘oh a 400 member W3 alliance just joined the enemy server.’

At least just give a set number of transfers for free like 2 or 3. I have moved myself I can’t lie but it is because my own server died due to xfers after losing to servers that got huge alliances. Just a very toxic environment.

Just wondering if there are any whispers of change, other than broken NPC events that ruin WvW…..

And I don’t want to here ‘when guesting is fixed’ -_-

I agree…

Should have stopped a couple weeks after release. Don’t see why they haven’t done it already, if people wanted to change so badly they would be willing to pay for it.

January or February would be my guess. Apparently they’re adding WvW content in Feb, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens by then at the latest.

Someday A-net will realize that WvW is what makes this game. Hopefully that happens before they kill it….

Darkhart.9142:

Someday A-net will realize that WvW is what makes this game. Hopefully that happens before they kill it….

I highly doubt that will ever happen. Anet is literally slowly killing their game…for me at least. Everything is just growing so stale…never thought I would say this but I actually miss raids in WoW now, they gave me a reason to log on and bond with fellow guildies.

Oh well, Planetside 2 is like WvW on steroids and is F2P…slowly making the switch day by day.

So, what about all the other players who don’t play WvW, but just want to transfer servers to be with their friends, a guild they found on the forums, or because they just don’t like their server? They’re not allowed to transfer now because WvW players also transfer? You can’t punish everyone because some people are dishonourable. It’s like removing WvW from the game because there are some people who exploit bugs in it.

And saying that you moved servers because other people moved makes you just as bad as the people you claim to dislike, and it makes you a hypocrite.

Fabled Sheep.4725:

So, what about all the other players who don’t play WvW, but just want to transfer servers to be with their friends, a guild they found on the forums, or because they just don’t like their server? They’re not allowed to transfer now because WvW players also transfer? You can’t punish everyone because some people are dishonourable. It’s like removing WvW from the game because there are some people who exploit bugs in it.

And saying that you moved servers because other people moved makes you just as bad as the people you claim to dislike, and it makes you a hypocrite.

Stated I moved to be open about it. WvW died on my server, it was down to my guild and 2 others and was tired of feeling like I had to be up 24 hrs a day to hold what we owned. My guild tried, it worked, for one day, then we were to wiped to do it again XP

My guild had been there over 3 months and loved it but when 80% of the wvw population leaves it’s a problem. The difference is PvE content is the same no matter what server you go to. If a group of friends by the game and don’t decide to be on the same server, well they weren’t very good friends XP. As for transfering to join a guild that’s fine, give everyone 2 or 3 transfers so at least there is hope for WvW.

When a mass group leaves or joins WvW it CAN completely imbalance a whole weeks worth (or more) of gameplay for WvWers is all I am saying. For those that enjoy WvW it is a clear detriment, where PvE enjoyment shouldn’t require you change servers every other week.

hobbes.6178:

Oh well, Planetside 2 is like WvW on steroids and is F2P…slowly making the switch day by day.

Thanks a lot, you’re making my download Planetside 2 right now and I don’t even like FPSes!

Server transfers should be way more limited asap!

Maybe the WvW pve boni should be eliminated (or only count towards WvW Map)?
And instead be placed onto homeworlds at bottom of WvW ladder?
→ Would give more incentives to pve dedicated players to stay out of the high WvW tiers.

I have to be honest. I really can’t understand why people even bother transferring for WvW. I mean, what’s the point?
You go to a higher tier, then what? People/servers gain absolutely nothing being in a higher tier. And I do mean -absolutely nothing-. There is literally nothing to accomplish or “win” in WvW. There’s no ranks, no rewards, nothing.

Anyway, at this point, I’m going to be really surprised if they remove free transfers at all. They just need to make it so you can only transfer to lower populated servers, and stop letting people swarm/crowd to the upper ones.

There are issues as well that would arise from locking free transfers. Server’s are not equally balanced lock it and some server communities would die as they would not be able to gain any transfers to boost their numbers in WvW so rather than what you have now where WvW guilds move around they would be stuck and forced to quit unless like the OP mentions where lower tier servers are free to balance out their population.

Glektor.2934:

I have to be honest. I really can’t understand why people even bother transferring for WvW. I mean, what’s the point?
You go to a higher tier, then what? People/servers gain absolutely nothing being in a higher tier. And I do mean -absolutely nothing-. There is literally nothing to accomplish or “win” in WvW. There’s no ranks, no rewards, nothing.

Anyway, at this point, I’m going to be really surprised if they remove free transfers at all. They just need to make it so you can only transfer to lower populated servers, and stop letting people swarm/crowd to the upper ones.

This is a good idea. Make transferring to lower population(or lower tiered) servers free while having a price to go to a higher one.

It’s not all about transferring up. Largish guilds frequently transfer to lower ranked servers, greatly increasing their population, and ride them in consecutive wins. The process repeats so that those players are nearly always on the winning team. Server pride does not factor in to the equation, only ego and guild pride. I’ll not bother giving an example lest I hurt feelings.

Glektor.2934:

I have to be honest. I really can’t understand why people even bother transferring for WvW. I mean, what’s the point?
You go to a higher tier, then what? People/servers gain absolutely nothing being in a higher tier. And I do mean -absolutely nothing-. There is literally nothing to accomplish or “win” in WvW. There’s no ranks, no rewards, nothing.

Anyway, at this point, I’m going to be really surprised if they remove free transfers at all. They just need to make it so you can only transfer to lower populated servers, and stop letting people swarm/crowd to the upper ones.

About the ‘gains’ I play my game to play my game. I enjoy PLAYING the game, I don’t need to be given gear, or money, or anything. I just want to play my game. So the gain for a few people or a small guild transfering is a fun game. I don’t need an in game item to tell me I had fun when my guild gets screen shots and stories and a good fight.

This is a video game and people play it for fun. Having to play against the same servers every week when one is clearly more dominant than the others is not fun. Proactive players are going to move away from that situation.

Limiting server transfers is not the answer. If you forced someone to play on a dead end server, they’d either go back to PvE or quit playing altogether. No one is going to willfully subject themselves to something that is not enjoyable.

When guesting is fixed, so never.