talked friends into leaving WOW to come play with us on GW2 just for them to find out they can’t get into our realm because it’s FULL. They did say however that they saw an option to transfer realms for gems/cash …… that would be shameful …. if it’s true.
Choosing your initial home world is not too much different from transferring to another world. The main restriction in both cases is that you can’t choose a world that is already full.
With Megaservers and merged guild chapters in place however, you can still play in the same party on the same maps and instances without even noticing you are on different worlds, as long as you are registered on the same server region (NA or EU). The worlds only really come into play for WvW.
It certainly doesn’t solve that issue, you are correct.
The only way to play WvW together in that case would be for him to move to his friends server. There is no way to circumvent the fact that some servers are full.
There are many factors that go into the population status of a server and going into detail would be too complex right now and probably would require a developer to chime in as well to fully explain it.
But a good estimate is to use the whole “accounts that call a server home” metric.
