Guild Wars 2

I played GW1 a lot, with 5 accounts. My guildmates and I played in International districts there. With GW2 we became split into US and EU zones. Now most of them have migrated over to EU. But I already found a US server I am happy with. So I was thinking of making a second GW2 account to play in EU with the old guild, perhaps when the next expansion comes out though, as I’m thinking it may not be that long to wait. Is making a second account a good idea or are there any known problems with that? Then I had the idea to make a free account on EU for now, and link that to one of my old GW1 accounts. But can free accounts be linked to paid GW1 accounts? And if so, do I have to use a new email address for the free account that is different to the old GW1 account, and then link, or can I login to GW2 with my existing GW1 email and password and get an automatic link? Or is it a bad idea to make a free account now, link it, and upgrade it later? Any advice from anyone who has been in a similar situation would be welcome.

You will have to use a new email address to link a new account to an old Guild Wars account. There is no ‘automatic linking’. You can make a Play4Free account now, and upgrade it later; just be aware of the restrictions that Play4Free accounts have.

You can read more about the different accounts in the Knowledge Base accessed via the ‘Support’ link above/below.

Good luck.

Why would you waste your GW1 HoM achievements on a “secondary” account?

Also, I doubt you can unlink your current account in order to re-link it to a new one.

As for the e-mail address, I use the same in GW1 and GW2, and I think that is the pre-requisite to being able to link them.

The OP stated they had five Guild Wars (One) accounts, and was thinking of linking a new GW2 account to one of their secondary GW1 accounts.

Once linked, the GW1 account will change its log-in information to that of the GW2 account it is linked to. Players in the past had difficulty using the old GW1 email address when creating a new GW2 account, as the address would cause an error: ‘Email Address already in Use’. If that has changed, I am unaware.

Good luck.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

The OP stated they had five Guild Wars (One) accounts

Oops, my bad.