Guild Wars 2

Today is a day that I most look forward all week in GW2 – reset night. However, as I’m in Europe that means me and my guildies have to wait until 1am to start the new matchup and after a first adrenaline rush and first skirmishes are over tiredness kicks in and pretty soon people are going to bed.

Is there a reason why European servers get their reset at midnight GMT? I realize that reset starts simultaneously with NA servers but is that really necessary? Arenanet has a policy of scheduling big PvE events at an hour that is most convenient for most players to attend it. Well, reset can be viewed as an event and a strong start is very important in WvW matches – can we get it at some more convenient time for most of the players on server? Since NA and EU servers are separated in two different “leagues” it doesn’t matter if they have different reset times and I think earlier start will mean more people will participate in hectic first hours of matchup and not just night owls.

While this would work out well for you and your guildies, it would require twice the work on ArenaNet’s part…..unless you’re suggesting they move the reset time for ALL servers, both EU and NA, to a time that better suits you.

If they did one reset time for NA and one reset time for EU, that’s doubling their workload. None of us know what it takes to reset ALL the servers, nor will we….all anyone can do is speculate how much work it takes unless an ArenaNet employee in charge of server resets comes onto the forum and tells us, which is unlikely at best.

There is no way for ArenaNet to make everyone happy. They have chosen a time to reset the servers, in this case, midnight GMT. That time benefits some people and comes at an inconvenient time for others. That’s just the way it is.

You should probably count yourself as a lucky one as I’m sure there are some people that are saying…..“How come the server gets reset at 4am? I can’t stay up that late.” At least you get to play at a time that isn’t horribly inconvenient.