Originally posted by kadepsyson

Originally posted by Kuppa

Originally posted by kadepsyson

Glad to see they are finally adding this launch feature.

Wish it was as effective as The Secret World's method, but take what you can get I suppose.

What does TSW do differently?

You pick a server.  If your server is full, you are still logged in just fine.  You're just playing on a different server temporarily.  You can still chat with everyone cross server as before.  You can still group with your friends on your server, as grouping will teleport them into the same server as you.  It's something people don't even notice while playing because it works so well.

 

Much different than having to pick menu options to guest to a specific server to play with your friends, then log back to your server when done.

That's exactly what overflow servers do. If the zone you're in is full on your server, you are temporarily put into an overflow. Groups are cross-server and if someone wants to meet you in the overflow, they can just choose Join in. Guesting doesn't replace it, it's a different option.

Without the ability to guest between US and EU the feature is rather pointless to me and I assume for most people, with the very lenghty time there has been a free transfer getting in on the same server with your friends should have already happened unless ofcourse they happen to live on the otherside of the planet making playing with them not feasible on weekdays as I need to go to sleep when they come home from work, thus guesting was a great idea as you could temporarily jump to their server and play with them when time allowed instead of being stuck playing on primarily "dead times".

This isn't a restriction though but a technical issue because of having seperate data centers for the 2 regions that can hopefully be solved in the future.

Originally posted by kadepsyson

Originally posted by Celcius

Originally posted by kadepsyson

Originally posted by Kuppa

Originally posted by kadepsyson

Glad to see they are finally adding this launch feature.

Wish it was as effective as The Secret World's method, but take what you can get I suppose.

What does TSW do differently?

You pick a server.  If your server is full, you are still logged in just fine.  You're just playing on a different server temporarily.  You can still chat with everyone cross server as before.  You can still group with your friends on your server, as grouping will teleport them into the same server as you.  It's something people don't even notice while playing because it works so well.

 

Much different than having to pick menu options to guest to a specific server to play with your friends, then log back to your server when done.

That actually sounds worse. The thing about TSW is that it only has like 2-3 servers so it doesn't really matter. What you described means that you need to group with people on another server to play on that server. This system is better cause it just lets you play wherever you want without forcing you to group to do it.

Also, this was never intended to be a launch feature. They wanted to get population settled before enabling guesting. They said this before launch. Nice try though.

 

So this system is better because when you want to play by yourself on a different server you have to select which one to guest on?  heh

And yeah not sure how seamless cross server chat and grouping is a terrible thing?

But yeah much better to have to log out to character select and go through a guesting process to join your friends waiting than to just click "accept group invite" and be done with it.  Sorry I am kidding about that, it's worse in GW2.  Also in GW2 you can't guest onto a different region's server.  I'm sure that's better in GW2 anyways though, to a die hard fan :)

Sorry, you seem to be confused. The system you are describing in TSW that is "better" has been active in GW2 since launch. GW2 has always allowed cross-server grouping and chat and even cross-server guilds and other features. They even have a website and now mobile app thats dedicated to cross-server grouping. 

This "guesting" is something completely different. This allows a player a chance to play on a different main server, not just an overflow or a "temp" server like TSW. Sorry for the confusion, but GW2 system is better. Although frankly I personally find it unnecesssary. Ive never liked the idea of anything cross-server (except PvP) and i certainly dont like games to have a server transfer system. The damage shows in games like GW2, with the WvW debacle, but theres never an excuse to transfer.