Guild Wars 2

So Colin Johansen has said there will be no guesting across regions, GW2 is not Guild Wars.

We have noticed that. I often wonder why they called the game Guild Wars 2, which is a misnomer by far.

In any case, we have a situation where most of our original guild and alliance from Guild Wars formed a guild in GW2. These members cover multiple countries and time zones, and also American and European Servers. They used to be able to change servers to join us and then go back to their home worlds; America and Europe sleep at different times. It was awkward having to change for 7 days, but lots did.

Now those on American servers are stuck there, and cannot join us on our European server for events and dungeons and general playing together.

What am I supposed to do with these members? Kick them? We’ve been having a discussion in our Facebook group. I think the most poignant comment was:

" I was just hoping they would fix it so I could play with you guys and I like to check in and see what fun things you guys are up to. Representing from US does not benefit anyone so if you want me to leave the guild I will, it’s just I have always felt HoM was my home."

Does that make anyone feel good? Shutting out long-standing guild members who have become friends playing the original game?

Sadly I think the only option here is to have all American players join the EU server or vice versa…

I really can’t see Anet doing anything to fix this. It seems they have gone this route for such reasons as storage spaces etc or some such thing. I’m not too up to play on all that technical side of things but there seems to be some reason they are keeping the 2 sides seperate.

I hope it all works out for you.

I must agree, fellow guildy. Upon our migration from Guild Wars to Guild Wars 2 there has been a wedge driven between us. For a small but geographically diverse guild such as ours this is a severe blow. To divide our guild by imposing the restraints of guesting is both unacceptable and unreasonable. This cannot be unique to our guild, the problem must stand for many other guilds too and I am surprised it has not been addressed.

When you join your son’s guild in the US region, and your friends’ guild in the European region, it kinda makes it hard to choose which region to stay in or move to.

If there had been no option to join multiple guilds, the question wouldn’t arise, I guess. But you can join multiple guilds provided you don’t actually want to represent them.

I don’t think the problem is they can’t do it. I think it is they can’t be kitten to do it.

Most likely the thing that is the problem is WvW. While in the same region it is accessible you just don’t have access to the points. Now when you were to guest in another region you would have to be copied to the other database, which would cut people off from WvW. I am assuming they don’t want to bug fix the problems that would arise from that.