Guild Wars 2

So,

“Because (different from a world transfer) we are not moving your character between data centers, you may only guest on worlds in the same region as your home world. Players on North American home worlds cannot guest on European worlds or vice versa.”

This for me, makes the guesting feature entirely pointless. I would assume that the most use for the guesting feature would come from someone wanting to cross regional servers for a visit. I’d assume people from the same region would likely be on the same server. That’s also making the assumption that guesting is a feature to allow you to play with friends.

Thoughts on this? Speculated reasoning?

The unfortunate thing, is that nobody is more vocal than PvP’ers. No matter how loud we whine about the lazyness of just slapping on a 7 day transfer limit without implementing guesting first, the PvP’ers will whine louder.

That “something” couldn’t have been to lock people out of WvW for a week as opposed to server transfering?

They sold the game on the premise that the archaic days of people across differing servers having to resign themselves to not playing together, would be over via guesting. They make transfers free as a gesture to sate the people who expected guesting and didn’t get it (no mention about when that’s coming by the way.)

And not all of my friends are part of the same social circle, so demanding that they all come to my server or that we all congregate on a certain other server is ridiculous.

If guesting were up, I’d be all for a 7 day lockout period. It’s not though.

Re: Phoenix the One = It wouldn’t be easier and take less time, because you have to wait a week?

7 day transfer limit because of concerns over WvW? Sorry but I wasn’t aware this was a PvP exclusive game, and that PvP issues dictated wether I could play with friends or not.

I could see the reasons for a 24 hour limit (although even that is a little harsh) because it’s difficult to keep track of server populations if everyone is jumping around so easily. However, this 7 day lockout is absolute nonsense. This isn’t a solution to WvW issues, a solution to that would be to add in a lockout from WvW itself when you transfer.

What this week long transfer does is just prevents people from playing with friends on differing servers, like me. The thing is that it would be fine, if guesting was implemented and wasn’t a back-bench issue despite being an allure for the game before release. Guesting isn’t implemented though, and this is entirely unfair.

Thoughts, anyone?