Guild Wars 2

ANet has explained that, when guesting, the data is not copied to the other datacentre (unlike server transfers) which is why you cannot guest across region.

I’m sure there are reasons why ANet would prefer not to maintain 2 copies of your data across 2 datacentres. So instead, let’s incentivise it.

So yeah, if you want cross-region guesting, you can buy a “Please double the amount of space I’m allowed to take up on your servers” ticket using gems.

This will give you X months of the privilege of having 2 copies of your character data, one at each data centre. The gem price of this service can be set to whatever the real cost of the storage space is. Plus some margin.

Anyways, everyone’s a winner.

Doesn’t even need a doubling of storage space. It can probably be done with NO hardware changes at all. Just some database changes and some software adjustments.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/An-idea-for-making-cross-region-guesting-work/first#post1243598

Well, we don’t really know the details of what’s possible and what isnt. All I am saying is, if making cross-region guesting work requires some additional resources (and that’s what’s stopping them), then ANet should make it work and then charge gems for it.

Anet allowed free world transfers at will when the game opened and their servers didn’t melt. I took advantage of this to play with both EU and NA friends and never experienced lag in either region. It clearly is technically possible for them to allow people to play cross-region. If it costs them extra money to allow cross-region play then they should admit that and place a price on it. The claim that it is not feasible is provably false – they’ve already done it.

Wouldn’t it be simpler to have an international world with no WvW at all, for people of all regions to go there and play together?