Guild Wars 2

Hello, ladies and gentlecharr!

It’s no secret that there’s probably a decent number of players somehow inconvenienced by the segregation of NA and EU regions. I’m among them. For me, personally, the issue came to a head recently as most of my guild, who are based in the US, left the server for greener, more American pastures. I used a free account to test my latency to see if I could follow, and the results were not good.

The thing is, I would not terribly mind the latency for short periods of time – I’d endure it happily for a dungeon run or a map clear with my friends.

The issue with the current system, as I see it, is its all-or-nothing nature.
If I wish to play with my friends, I have to make the opposite region my home region and endure the cross-region lag even when I’m not playing with those cross-region friends.

As I recall, the separation of the data centers was cited as the reason for the segregation – it would be too much overhead to maintain character data for every character on both ends.

Assuming this is the crux of the issue, here then is my suggestion:
What about a one-time fee to keep just one character mirrored on both ends?

Such a character would be unable to participate in WvW on the region it’s a “guest” on, of course, but would otherwise act like a ‘native’ on the other side for activities where being part of a given world’s population is irrelevant.

Essentially, this character would allow one to play with their friends cross-region without, I should hope, causing too much overhead thanks to the fact it’s just one character per non-free account and that only people who want the perk would unlock it.

Obviously, my hope is that one day, a full cross-region guesting feature will be developed, but if it’s truly not feasible at all, this is an example of a compromise I could live with. Really, I just want to not be so completely cut off from my US friends, and I’m sure they’d like to be able to play with me occasionally as well.

Thanks for reading!

and since said character is saved on two dif data senters what happens when a rare drop happens in the na server that you wont then have on the eu server mate?
You know you would basicly have to level up masteries on each server cluster aswell.

The best of resolving this was suggested over 3 years ago, and it’s a simple fix than the above.

Simply de-couple the server you WvW for from the server you PvE on. You can then use the existing character transfer mechanic to move your character to any server you wish. Charge gems to move your WvW server to maintain WvW integrity and give a pop up message saying your may get lag is you move cross region.

Job done.

Shanaeri Rynale.6897:

The best of resolving this was suggested over 3 years ago, and it’s a simple fix than the above.

Simply de-couple the server you WvW for from the server you PvE on. You can then use the existing character transfer mechanic to move your character to any server you wish. Charge gems to move your WvW server to maintain WvW integrity and give a pop up message saying your may get lag is you move cross region.

Job done.

So your asking anet to do jobb for free when moving chars from na data center to eu data center?
Noone will do stuff for free mate.
You dont have to change pve server on the same data center ever.

Linken.6345:

Shanaeri Rynale.6897:

The best of resolving this was suggested over 3 years ago, and it’s a simple fix than the above.

Simply de-couple the server you WvW for from the server you PvE on. You can then use the existing character transfer mechanic to move your character to any server you wish. Charge gems to move your WvW server to maintain WvW integrity and give a pop up message saying your may get lag is you move cross region.

Job done.

So your asking anet to do jobb for free when moving chars from na data center to eu data center?
Noone will do stuff for free mate.
You dont have to change pve server on the same data center ever.

Character transfer is automatic, no manual intervention is required. I guess you might quote bandwidth use, but tbh the amount of data is small per character and the sizing of their network would be offset by the reduction of concurrent users since launch.

They still have a 2 per 24 hour limit to guest to another server in your data center (and why that is, I have no idea). If they put in and keep a restriction on guesting, my guess is they’ll never allow free transfers to the other data center.

Linken.6345:

and since said character is saved on two dif data senters what happens when a rare drop happens in the na server that you wont then have on the eu server mate?
You know you would basicly have to level up masteries on each server cluster aswell.

You will never play the character on both data centers at the same time. The privilege you would be paying for would be mirroring – when you switch the region, the data centers would communicate briefly to align the data, thus saving progress from both sides.

Shanaeri Rynale.6897:

The best of resolving this was suggested over 3 years ago, and it’s a simple fix than the above.

Simply de-couple the server you WvW for from the server you PvE on. You can then use the existing character transfer mechanic to move your character to any server you wish. Charge gems to move your WvW server to maintain WvW integrity and give a pop up message saying your may get lag is you move cross region.

Job done.

While free options and less restrictive options are ideal, of course, my suggestion revolves more around minimizing perceived issues of implementing such options. It’s a suggestion that’s based around compromises – it attempts to present an option that reduces trouble such as cluttering up communication between the two data centers and puts it behind a paywall, thus making it, maybe, hopefully, more feasible and worthwhile for the company to implement.

I don’t know if it would be posible or not but I would like if we at least had a character slot item that let us create a new character in the other server with the same account.