Guild Wars 2

I live in the US, and I most of my gaming/online friends live in Sweden.

The web seems to have a wide array of conflicting information.
“You can play in an overflow”
“Cross region guesting is allowed”
“Cross region guesting is not allowed”
“You can server transfer”
“You can do dungeons together”
“You can’t play together at all despite what was announced pre-launch”

Forum searches seem to find posts in forums that don’t exist, so I can’t read more than what the search shows me. There is one thread talking about a guild that has existed cross region until recently, but doesn’t seem to give the straight “This is how it works.”

I would like a straightforward answer with all of the information.

If a server transfer is the only way, I’m willing to deal with a bit of lag (I’d like input on this if anybody reading this is playing cross region), but 1800 gems?! That’s ~25 USD. That’s half the cost of the game, which I think is pretty silly. It doesn’t seem to scale if you look at all the other things that you can get with that amount of gems.

Thanks in advance for what I hope will be a series of thorough and informative non-conflicting answers.

You can play with them, as long as you create a character in the European servers (assuming they’re using European servers).

When you get your software, just make sure that whatever server park they’re in, you create a character on the same one, or better still, on the same server, which will let you WvW together as well.

Basically, anyone can create a character on a European or a US server, no matter where they are in the world. However, you can’t guest to a different server park, so you wouldn’t be able to play with them if you didn’t create your character correctly.

Also keep in mind in Guild Wars 2, all your characters are on the same server. So you want to make sure you get the information from them, before you create your first character.

you would need to server transfer to the Eu servers before you could play with them other ways you cant do anything with them at all!
Oh and you would need to be on the same server to get the most out a guild together and to WvWvW together.
You cant guest from American server to Europe only Europe to Europe and American to American!

Vayne.8563:

You can play with them, as long as you create a character in the European servers (assuming they’re using European servers).

When you get your software, just make sure that whatever server park they’re in, you create a character on the same one, or better still, on the same server, which will let you WvW together as well.

Basically, anyone can create a character on a European or a US server, no matter where they are in the world. However, you can’t guest to a different server park, so you wouldn’t be able to play with them if you didn’t create your character correctly.

Also keep in mind in Guild Wars 2, all your characters are on the same server. So you want to make sure you get the information from them, before you create your first character.

This post is more confusing then helpful lol

Okay, there are two server parks. Anyone can create a character in either, doesn’t matter where you live.

What does matter is that if you have friends on one server park you need to create your characters in the same server park. The easiest way to do this is to find out what server your friends are playing on, and create a character on the same server.

Just keep in mind, that if you’re in the US and you create a character on a European server, you’ll, be limited to guesting only on European servers.

Kane Fire Blade.7482:

Vayne.8563:

You can play with them, as long as you create a character in the European servers (assuming they’re using European servers).

When you get your software, just make sure that whatever server park they’re in, you create a character on the same one, or better still, on the same server, which will let you WvW together as well.

Basically, anyone can create a character on a European or a US server, no matter where they are in the world. However, you can’t guest to a different server park, so you wouldn’t be able to play with them if you didn’t create your character correctly.

Also keep in mind in Guild Wars 2, all your characters are on the same server. So you want to make sure you get the information from them, before you create your first character.

This post is more confusing then helpful lol

NA can only play with NA. EU can only play with EU. You can message and group with them but not actually play with them.

Chorel.1720:

Kane Fire Blade.7482:

Vayne.8563:

You can play with them, as long as you create a character in the European servers (assuming they’re using European servers).

When you get your software, just make sure that whatever server park they’re in, you create a character on the same one, or better still, on the same server, which will let you WvW together as well.

Basically, anyone can create a character on a European or a US server, no matter where they are in the world. However, you can’t guest to a different server park, so you wouldn’t be able to play with them if you didn’t create your character correctly.

Also keep in mind in Guild Wars 2, all your characters are on the same server. So you want to make sure you get the information from them, before you create your first character.

This post is more confusing then helpful lol

NA can only play with NA. EU can only play with EU. You can message and group with them but not actually play with them.

But you can be in North American and create your character on a European server. I actually have two accounts, one with characters on US servers and one with characters on European servers, so I can play with both groups of friends.

Vayne.8563:

But you can be in North American and create your character on a European server. I actually have two accounts, one with characters on US servers and one with characters on European servers, so I can play with both groups of friends.

Since I’ve already been playing on a US server, and the consensus seems to be that I would need to migrate to a EU server, I may very well take this route.

Since I would have to pay ~25$ to server transfer, I feel that I might as well just get a whole new account and set it up EU. <Insert money grab conspiracy theory here>

I think I could get over the lack of being able to pimp out my newbs with phat lewts, bags and gold and what not.

Thanks all for the responses, I really appreciate it.

Vayne, where are you in the US (east coast, west coast etc) and how is the lag?