Should the World Transfer fee be reduced, now that World Visit is out?

$18 seems like a pretty high price just to transfer worlds, now that World Visit allows us to almost freely visit other worlds.

A reduced fee to transfer to another server within your data center would be nice.

Price reductions are always nice, but.... if World Visit allows you mostly the same thing, then don't transfer.

I dont see why anything would change. World visit is not a transfer. Why would it have any effect on the price?

Of course cheaper prices are always better. I just don't understand why in this case. I would rather see an option to move fc/personal houses to different worlds/datacenters.
Edit: If anything, world visit lets you see how a world is before transfering. That is saving money already for some players.

World visit may actually decrease demand for transfer, so an increase (rather than decrease) in fee may even be possible to encourage people to visit rather than transfer if they don't need to.

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Originally Posted by linay

World visit may actually decrease demand for transfer, so an increase (rather than decrease) in fee may even be possible to encourage people to visit rather than transfer if they don't need to.

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This is pretty much exactly what I was thinking... but didn't want to post and give people a reason to freak out that I was suggesting a price hike. :P I am not of course, but when using the fact of world visit existing.. that would make far more sense than a decrease in price.

World visit still doesn’t let you easily connect with people on the other server, unless you can speak directly to them.

One of my real hopes when it was first announced was that I’d be able to bring alts over to my main server and connect into the local linkshell that my friends use there. That isn’t the case, so when I did bring an alt to visit, it felt oddly disconnected still because I was talking to the few people that were physically there, but was out of contact with everyone else. So I can go over to socialise, but not just to be connected while questing.

(Obviously the answer is to find a local community for my alts, and I’ve done that for some of them, but one seems to have landed in a particularly lacking-in-English server and I’m tempted to move... just not at that price.)