Guild Wars 2

Linken.6345:

It always costed 1800 gems to switch from eu to us mate thats becouse they have to transfer your account bettwen server clusters.

Well, it sure didn’t back at launch. I must’ve switched servers 50-60 times and never paid anything.

Amaya.1483:

Sorry but how much did you play before? One month? Just guessing from what you wrote, but it cant be much so you didnt like the game in the first place that much so yeah, nvm but noone cares.

I’m guessing you meant this as dismissive and offensive, but you’re actually totally correct – that’s exactly why I didn’t play that much: I didn’t like the game as much as I though when I bought it. At launch there were “some problems” (*cough*scaler*cough*) and it wasn’t the “holy grail” of MMOs as it was pretty much marketed back then.

So I played.. what, four months? Six months tops, not more than that for sure. Like you said, specifically because I didn’t like it as much as I though I’d do. It grew bored of it VERY fast (sadly) and left.

But there’s been SO much content added after that and now the expansion.. sounded good.

Jana.6831:

I have never tried to delete all my characters to transfer for free – it probably doesn’t work anymore as anet finally took a look at the coverage issues wvw is having.

You have always been locked out from transfers for a week, that at least for 1,5 years (that’s when I transferred first) – the highest amount of gems you have to pay is 1800, so no idea where your 2500 is coming from. If you only want to transfer to EU or NA, take a lower populated server (500 gems) if you want to play pve only. The only time you can’t play with anyone of the same region is in wvw. (Others already stated that we’ve got megaservers (for 1,5 years now) which means that all people from the same region are theoretically put onto the same servers)

My bad. I meant 2000 gems (which is close enough 25€ so I messed it up). If that is true (I haven’t checked) that you can transfer to low-pop server for less, I think I’ll take that one, thanks. But all the server I tried just gave me the 2000 gem price. (I have 400 gems on my account and it shoved I was 1600 short for every server I checked).

And that megaserver does sound good… so I wouldn’t even need to do the worldselect → guest → play anymore? Just teleport to guildies/party and off we go? That does sound good. (I never cared about PvP, so I don’t care about the WvW limitations).

Seriously, you’ve gone through the wrong end while I was away…

Back then I used to play with a few friends all over the globe, as transfers were easy and fast. We played over at US server (although we live in EU), because most guildies were there. But then occasionally with other characters we’d wander back to EU to play with just EU friends, because most of them were there and the ping was marginally better. Just so happens when I quit, I left my character in a US server…

Now, year or two later… server transfers cost 2000 GEMS? WTF? And they lock you out for SEVEN DAYS?

(though you can transfer for free if you delete all your characters? I mean what the kitten is that for?)

And it’s great that you can create free accounts.. that are not even able to SELECT a server, they just assign you randomly to one? Yeah, nice one. We play together – each their own and just describe what the others do?

I though I’d get HoT and start again, but yay, I can’t play with any of my EU friends anymore, unless I pay for an ADDITIONAL 2500 GEMS? And my wife and son can’t even select their preference so they could play with me on the US side, nor can they even select to be on the same server (yeah, this isn’t that bad of a thing because “guesting”, but it is still an unnecessary step).

Yeah, as you could probably guess, I won’t be coming back. I could’ve been nice.

Ao, have a nice one and goodbye (again). Probably for good.

I have two machines that I use to run GW2. I’m not at the moment on either, so no dxDiag unfortunately. I’ll post one later if I can edit this post.

Machine 1, runs GW2 ~30fps tops. Mostly 25-27fps. All settings maxed.
Intel Q9650 (quad-core 3GHz) PNY GTX680 8Gb DDR2 RAM (800MHz if I recall correctly)
Tried with 304 and 306 beta drivers, no chance.
Monitor 1920×1080@60Hz

Machine 2, runs GW2 17fps all maxed and @21fps all minimum. Intel E6850 (dual-core 3GHz) Palit GTX285 2Gb DDR2 RAM (533MHz)
Tried with 285 WHQL and 304, 306 beta drivers. change max +-1fps.
Monitor 1280×1024@60Hz

Both machines running Win7-SP1 64bit.

fps doesn’t really change (max 2-3fps) between situations; exploring, hectic battle, main city.. doesn’t really matter. Machine 1 I can get to ~40fps if I go hug a wall and change my camera so that ALL I can see is the single wall texture.

Most other games run just perfectly fine. About 30-40fps on the second machine and 90+ on the first. Mostly I wonder why the difference between machines and/or details levels is so small.