Guild Wars 2

Right now people can move freely between servers. This is causing massive server rebalances, and band wagon jumping. Entire guilds are transferring forming new alliances on new servers working to get new coverage.

And then they are going to eventually lock down the servers…

Guess what happens then?

Entire Guilds/Alliances will call servers home. Then individual player migration will continue. It will only be a few gold for the individual to transfer. Larger massive guilds will not be able to transfer off, however individuals will be able to transfer to whoever is winning.

And they will. And the big guilds won’t be able to move their people off and rebalance anything. So that top server will become dominant, and stay dominant and players won’t be able to fix themselves as easily.

IMO:
Transfers should be cash only. No gem stores, a purchasable transfer ticket that can only be bought with real money. No gold involved.

Transfers should be cash only. No gem stores, a purchasable transfer ticket that can only be bought with real money. No gold involved.

This ^ it’s common sense. Real money for a transfer. If you want to transfer cough up 15$

You make it seem as if the players will pay for the entire guild to be moved, that is not the case, as you can freely if you so chose to, move from one server to another and still stay in the same guild, and would thus be an act of the “individual” rather than the entire guild. Of course, having an entire guild move will be more spendy overall, but considering it is the individual paying, not the guild, it doesn’t make any difference.

This game needs another gold sink anyways, a few more actually, and this will at least help in some aspects of the game.

Except players will know that the guilds that are making a server number one won’t be able to move servers easily, and so they can invest a few gold, get the gems, and transfer to a winning server. This will be about individual player migration, not guild migration.

If they don’t remove the ability to spend gold on transfers, this will seriously hurt individual player migration and dilute the top tier servers.

am i missing something? i thought they said the free transfers are only for the first few months of the game so people can get situated. I remember reading server tranfers would cost $ and you would not get the WvW rewards until the next round so people wouldnt server hop

Pirhana.8935:

am i missing something? i thought they said the free transfers are only for the first few months of the game so people can get situated. I remember reading server tranfers would cost $ and you would not get the WvW rewards until the next round so people wouldnt server hop

Once a number one server is established, people will know which has the best chance of staying number one and they will move to that server.

Now imagine players individually know that the major guilds on those servers won’t be able to change servers easily.

800gems (testing cost) to swap servers = ~3g
industry standard of $25 = 2100gems = ~9g

For 9g people will be able to transfer to the dominant server. This is unacceptable and why the cost needs to be for money only, not for gold.

I’m sorry…where did you read that transfers would be done for anything other than cash money?

The transfer window.. where it clearly has a gem icon :P

Sunshine.3452:

The transfer window.. where it clearly has a gem icon :P

I wouldn’t know that; I’ve never transferred. Nor do I intend to (and no, I’m not on a top, or winning server. We routinely lose, often by 100,000-200,000 points).

Gems you purchase with real money so basically you are paying real money for transfers when you buy gems with real money which are then used to transfer. The reason for gems is so ppl can buy bulk if they so choose, rather then having several transactions for say transfer, dye’s, boost’s, ect ect. Buy a lump sum of gems and spend them as you choose.

In the end its still costing real money.

Nuzt.7894:

Gems you purchase with real money so basically you are paying real money for transfers when you buy gems with real money which are then used to transfer. The reason for gems is so ppl can buy bulk if they so choose, rather then having several transactions for say transfer, dye’s, boost’s, ect ect. Buy a lump sum of gems and spend them as you choose.

In the end its still costing real money.

Can’t people just trade gold for Gems?

Transfers should be limited to weekly window that coIncides with the weekly reset of the WvW. No fees just a lockout to prevent server hopping advantages for WvW games.

hey guys transfers are a problem

-signed,
some moron who helped stack jade quarry with more bad guilds

AFAIK players from JQ jumped to SoR for lower queues, and some from Yak’s jumped to SoR as well to be on the winning side, problem is those from JQ will end up in the same position with SoR in a few weeks if they keep winning and then they’ll probably want to go elsewhere again.

You guys see, to forget the fact of individual player skill, upkeep of top servers providing lots of players around the hours, and queue times. Yeah, a few people might transfer. But the thing you zerg bears are forgetting is the fact that smaller battles. aka lower tier servers are probably more fun, from a fun standpoint, not a “lol I’m on this server so that automatically makes me one of the good players” standpoint. even if transfers cost gems, transfers will slow to a crawl, not everyone wants to just upchuck gold to transfer to the bigger zerg with a 25 minute queue time.

In the coming months things will balance out. Especially after they cut off transfers, of course they will make people aware, so they can transfer to the server they want to stay on, and after that the charts and population do the rest. Eventually things will balance out, the game’s only been out for 2~ months, and these ratings change weekly now. Give it a few months and things will be less chaotic.

Not really so much a problem due to individual players hopping around, though that does give an impact which I agree. But you also must consider that moving say a mega guild/alliance who has over 300+ players has a much much larger effect. On the server they are going to and the one they left.

All I know is that free transfers is the major cause of problems in Wv3 on a whole and needs to be addressed in some shape or form.

transferring servers should be $ only. and only once per month.

I don’t think anyone has a problem with transfers. They have a problem with free transfers every 24 hours. Transfers should cost real money and be on at least a 2 week cooldown.

WvWvW should be disabled until the next round for anyone who transfers. That would stop the server jumping because of current match ups.