Guild Wars 2

Now I am sure this has been talked about so many times but are Arena Net considering or have they ever considered giving Australia a set of servers? It isn’t a huge problem at the moment and with Sea of Sorrows being the “Unofficial Oceanic” server, most people seem content but sometimes that 200 ping can be a bit of a bother.

Clearly there are enough Oceanic players to populate new servers but I just wanted other peoples thoughts on this or some extra information if I have mist a mod post or something a while ago.

This isn’t likely to happen, and Its not really ArenaNet’s fault. Australia’s overall communications network (Telstra) is legendary levels of bad. Even if Anet set up Oceanic servers, and every single person that you played with was from Oceania, its unlikely that your gameplay experience would change very much. Your ping time would be better but overall stability still the same considering all the broken copper and ADSL1 linkups there. The only players who would notice any significant change are those that are on cable and fiber at the last mile, and that is only a small population of Australians (some parts of Melbourne, Sydney ,etc.).

200 ping? Wow, I wish. Usually I’m averaging 500+. But then again, I have to play over wireless because there is no ADSL where I live, and it costs $10/Gb. So you pay $130 for HoT, then it costs another $100 to download it…

Australia is internet dark ages.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

200 ping? Wow, I wish. Usually I’m averaging 500+. But then again, I have to play over wireless because there is no ADSL where I live, and it costs $10/Gb. So you pay $130 for HoT, then it costs another $100 to download it…

Australia is internet dark ages.

My heart goes out to you and your loved ones <3

I’m also wireless in Australia, but I’m Vodafone.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

200 ping? Wow, I wish. Usually I’m averaging 500+. But then again, I have to play over wireless because there is no ADSL where I live, and it costs $10/Gb. So you pay $130 for HoT, then it costs another $100 to download it…

Australia is internet dark ages.

It helps alot if you patch the game at a public hotspot.