Guild Wars 2

When I use Google Chrome, searching for Guild Wars 2 in Google and clicking the link, or typing it directly into the address bar will bring me to the EU websites instead of the NA equivalents (guildwars2.com/en-gb and eu.support.guildwars2.com).

It’s not a huge issue as it doesn’t seem to make much of a difference, but I am based in NA and I find it a bit strange.

Using other browsers such as Internet Explorer or Firefox will direct me to the NA websites (guildwars2.com/en and en.support.guildwars2.com).

I wonder if Chrome uses Google to determine your locale, as they tie things to your Google profile fairly tightly. Might give this a look?

EDIT: gotta use a shortlink else for some reason you get garbage instead of the Google Help article.

Hmmm. That’s an interesting theory. I took a look at the article. Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s the case.

Trying to visit google.com will redirect me to google.ca, which is correct. The account I’m signed into is actually my old youtube account, which also detects that I’m in Canada haha. I have no other accounts tied to my google account.

Thanks for trying

It’s not a huge deal for me, as it doesn’t seem to matter for me whether I use the EU version of the NA version. It might matter to ArenaNet though. Especially with how support tickets are prioritized and such.

Huh…

I wonder if they direct Canadian visitors to EU, because of the whole French thing? Perhaps forgetting that Canada happens to be on the other side of the ocean

Haha, perhaps :P.

I am currently seeing this problem using Firefox.
I type “https://www.guildwars2.com/en” into the URL bar and I get re-directed to
“https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb”.
I live in Vancouver, Canada.

It was set to “English/United Kingdom [en-gb]”. I changed it to “English/Canada [en-ca]”.
Looks like that fixed it. Thanks!