Guild Wars 2

Suggestion #1:
I suggest that ArenaNet make a statement clarifying as to what “NA” and “EU” branding really meant. Is it:

• For database and peering purposes only?
• Or, player segregation?

If it is for database and peering purposes only (which I hope it is), then it would help a lot if ANet says so officially. This will prevent players arguing that “NA is for NA players only” or “EU is for EU players only”, which only creates a “foreigner”-racism effect or putting it another way “you don’t belong here” or “go play in your own server”.

If it is for player segregation, then that means you really have to put an Asia-Pacific server. I said, Asia-Pacific because if you called it just “Oceanic” then it will only create yet another “Oceanic is for Oceanic players only” racism.

As far as I understand, the NA and EU branding is for database and peering purposes only. It was not meant to segregate players and promote “you don’t belong here, this is our server, gtho” racism. So an official statement would help a great deal in keeping everyone in-line of ANet’s vision and philosophy re: GW2 overall.

Suggestion #2:
Providing that the branding of servers as “NA and EU” was only meant for database and peering purposes and not to segregate players and call everybody else a “foreigner” and telling them to “gtho of here”, then why separate the WvW and ranking of NA and EU?

Currently, NA registered players know that there are only two timezones – NA-side and Asia-Pacific-side. In the EU, as was posted in another thread here, the EU-side and the Quebec-side.

But if NA and EU servers can be matched with each other depending on their performance, then we all have to adapt accordingly. As an example I gave in another thread: a server like IoJ dominating SoS (as it is currently) will find it hard to maintain our domination if we happen to get matched with an EU server.

Simply because that when EU-registered players wakes up, they’ll be able to sweep at IoJ’s winnings. Then when SoS wakes up, they’ll have a chance to fight back (since majority of Asia-Pacific players are at SoS, not IoJ). Then when IoJ wakes up, we take back what was lost.

It is more challenging and there will be less timezone domination, unlike what is happening now in both NA and EU. It may also create the need to recruit gamers from the EU timezone so IoJ will be able to have a good defensive force and vice versa.

The branding of “EU” and “NA” should stay only as a database and peering issue/purpose. When it comes to WvW, it shouldn’t be the case, just like how it wasn’t in GW1. It will create an environment similar to other international games like SL and EVE.

Personally, it would be more fun to have a chance to get matched with any GW2 server, no matter where they are located. Get rankings too that are not separate will make it exciting and challenging as well for the next round.

(This post was meant as a suggestion, different from the other thread that was meant for open discussion.)

Thank you.