Guild Wars 2

The full question is: Will we be able to party across NA/EU servers when guesting comes? It was too long for the subject field character limit.

I was going to post this as a follow-up question to https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Can-i-party-with-americans-from-europe/837152 but the thread was locked.

When the guesting system is enabled will we be able to guest with friends on the other server group and play dungeons with them? Or is this NA/EU barrier permanent?

We don’t know.
Probably crossing the barrier between the databases is what keeps guesting from being implemented.

It would be very cool if it could become possible in the future !
Whenever I play at times when everybody is sleeping, I would love to be able to pug with Americans who are numerous at those same times … and vice-versa I guess they’d love to play with Europeans when their servers are deserted …

I really hope that they allow us to do dungeons with friends from US/EU, I also can’t wait for guesting to be avalible and then I hope they allow us to go between EU/US as we like.

So no one’s noticed in official comments if they specified either way?

If anyone gets the chance to ask an appropriate ANetter during a reddit AMA or something, I’d appreciate it. Timezones won’t give me a chance to do so myself.

I only know they are aware of this and said that the only way to switch server … I guess it means it’s intended and that :

or did you separate us so when server transfer will have a cost in gems you will gain profit?

KratosAngel.7289:

I only know they are aware of this and said that the only way to switch server … I guess it means it’s intended and that :

or did you separate us so when server transfer will have a cost in gems you will gain profit?

I seriously doubt that’s their intention. There can’t be enough players who would be willing to pay regular transfer fees to play with more than one set of friends over the pond.

I have been wondering if it might relate to staggered peak concurrency: If an EU player is online 0400-0800 UMT, they might arrange with a US player to get guested over to the US servers where the activity will be higher. Once people catch on, there’d be much higher peaks and much lower troughs in activity.

Whatever the reason, I hope they work something out and prioritize friends playing with friends on the list of considerations.