Guild Wars 2

So some time ago they bound server transfer costs to wvw, since the only reason for a server transfer is wvw.

I still hope you will replace that stupid server system one day, to get more balanced matches and some how force a equal distribution on all maps. So you can’t hope with a single zerg from border to border. But this shouldn’t belong here. Because that will take its time or will never change.

I’m currently on drakkar and thought about another server transfer, because it kinda feels dead here. And we are currently rank 16. So I thought about something higher like rank 8+. Was anyway from kodash before, but that is currently full.

I checked out the population of all servers and saw my server is marked with very high population.
What the kitten? How can we have a very high population? Even on reset we only have a queue of 20 people on eternal and no where else. During week in non primetime we can’t even handle more than homes and eternal battlefields. Site borderlands usually have less then 15 people during primetime. And during non primetime i’m often alone there maybe 2 others are there too.

Currently on EU Servers we have
0 servers with low population
11 Servers with medium population / server transfer cost of 500 gems
3 Servers with high population / server transfer cost of 1000 gems
11 Servers with very high population / server transfer cost of 1800 gems
2 Servers that are full

First how do you determine a server population?
You should really improve that. People who only play on reset or which just do their dailies for 20 minutes shouldn’t effect it that dramatically. The current population doesn’t mean anything as it seems. And we pay for high population while it feels like there is maybe a medium population.

The other thing is 1800 gems to play wvw for another sever? Are you serious? So 20 buckets + some ingame gold to play wvw for another server?
For a server like mine that is nearly dead on site borderlands?
You cant even buy 1800 gems directly. We can only get 1600 or 2800+.
Yes I now that you don’t want server hopping and so on. But that is really expensive. You could at least lower it to something like 200/400/800/1600 so we can buy 1600 gems and don’t have to spend extra gold. I even think it should be way cheeper.

It is odd that Anet is pulling the old “10 hotdogs in a package and selling buns in 8 packs” with the transfer costs. Maybe its accidental but it feels more like a big kittening money grab to many players.

Straegen.2938:

It is odd that Anet is pulling the old “10 hotdogs in a package and selling buns in 8 packs” with the transfer costs. Maybe its accidental but it feels more like a big kittening money grab to many players.

I’m leaning more towards $$$. Time-wise, the transfer fee was implemented around half a year into the game’s release and was never changed, besides temporarily for seasons. This was back when Black Lion Chests didn’t have the claim tickets/scraps and were filled with TONS of 1 use crap tonics and other mostly useless stuff to keep from getting what they’re after. So in terms of sales strategy, it does seem like something they would have, at least during that point of time, gone for.