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So beyond the fear of a guild leader stealing the guild and running off to a new server, this sounds like an interesting idea. Some of our guild has recently been throwing around the idea of swapping servers, so this would be something we'd consider. Of course I'm sure it could be a nice little cash cow for blizz as well. Nothing like making your wishes come true for a small fee. With the new guild system though, I'm not surprised this idea is making it's way onto the test servers.

Any thoughts?

It's something that people have been wanting for quite a while. With the new guild leveling, it makes even more sense for people to have the ability to move an entire guild with its established level, perks and achievements.

I am more likely to make use of the guild renaming though as I have an Alliance alt guild with a name that a friend gave it before he decided he didn't like Alliance and his enthusiasm for being a guild leader waned (short attention span really). While I like the friend, his choice in guild names was a bit uncreative and I have wished for a way to change it for a while. If it wasn't for the fact that creating a new guild would require me to go to strangers (hate being bugged for sigs so I hate to ask others for them) to get the guild signatures, I would have made a new alt guild a while ago and moved most of my alts to it.

I have so many alts covering all the crafting professions that help support my main that I really don't want to change servers but it's a bit less painful knowing that soon, if I do decide to do so, I can take all my junk in my guild banks with me. :)

So... instead of consolidating servers that are losing population, make subscribers pay to transfer. Sound like good business!

sub-defaulted for pointing out the obvious? That's a good sign of where the community and the game are going.

I don't think the guild system was thought out any further than 'more tasks with no required additional content = profit.'

That was a comment, not a complaint. (I've never rated anyone either way, so don't worry about retaliation.)

and JAY,
the Wow is for 12 year olds thread is THAT way. Stamp your fists at someone there. I'm not interested.

Actually I see no reason this won't be good for imbalanced/low pop servers. More people are likely to take advantage when they offer free transfers if they can do it en masse as a guild without disturbing their structure. And in those situations, when they're doing the character transfer free I don't see why they wouldn't do the same with the guild transfer.

No, you were sub-defaulted for an idiotic post. First you implied that a lot of servers are losing population, which there's nothing to indicate that. You also made it sound like you should be able to transfer for free, which Blizzard does when it's necessary to relieve population pressures, but which is prohibitively expensive to just do willy-nilly for free. I rated your post down for sounding whiny and entitled. I then rated the second one down for being whiny yet again, not to mention because you used the classic "oh no people don't like me, guess that's a sign how everyone is a bunch of pricks" line.

In short: You got what you deserved, quit complaining.

Unpopular opinions can benefit more from evidence then from references to a silent majority.

Just a thought.

Edited, Mar 24th 2011 10:52am by someproteinguy

Indeed, there are very helpful and informative long term members. The better ones tend to not gang up on a non-combative poster. That's not an assumption.

Not at all. I don't even have a subscription to the game, and haven't for several months. You're just pretending to be a victim here, for whatever reason.


Certain servers are underpopulated. Some others are overpopulated. That's the way it's always been, and the general trend has never been that population overall is decreasing. You were saying that they should consolidate the underpopulated ones instead of offering these transfers, which is a measure usually resorted to in games that are seeing an overall decrease in their population.


It absolutely is what the arrow is for. If you knew that already, why did you bother making a post to complain about it?

Also, another reason I rated you down: Jay came in and very directly but politely explained why your original comment was wrong. And instead of ever addressing you, you just completely ignored what he had to say. You've also provided nothing at all except pure opinion, not even an explanation of why you think that. It's obviously not required that you back up everything you say, but if you don't want to be rated down, interjecting your opinion in an argumentative way with nothing behind it is a bad route to take.


Again, acting as though you're somehow a victim here. You made a bad post. Accept it and move on. There's not some conspiracy to attack you because everyone loves making fun of the new people. Hell, I'm the only one who's even arguing with you. But I do appreciate the implication that I'm a worse poster because I failed to let your argumentative (and, yes, whiny) post go by unnoticed.

It's more like saying there's an alligator in the pool when it's clearly nothing but an anole.

It is also not really needed to make a new post about getting rated down. If you feel that you want to say something,just edit the rated down post.

Edit: thanks for the rate up (see? How easy was that?)

Edited, Mar 25th 2011 3:05pm by Ailitardif