Guild Wars 2

What’s up with the “You can not guest an American server” for European players (or the other way around) I don’t get it, why?! And seriously a fee for changing ur server? I understand that you want your “unbalanced” WvW to be balance, only allow transfers every 7 days but take the bloody fee away.

Edwin.8362:

What’s up with the “You can not guest an American server” for European players (or the other way around) I don’t get it, why?! And seriously a fee for changing ur server? I understand that you want your “unbalanced” WvW to be balance, only allow transfers every 7 days but take the bloody fee away.

Here is the official response:

’Let me explain to you why you cannot guest on worlds in another region.

There are two databases: European player data is stored in our European datacenter, American player data is stored in our American datacenter. This is to ensure that people in these regions can still properly play in case there is an issue with the connection between the datacenters.

When you do a world transfer from the US to the EU (and vice versa) your player data is transferred from one datacenter to the other. This is not the case with guesting, as you are still “registered” on your home world.

I understand that some of you are disappointed that you cannot guest on worlds in another region, but considering the complexity of internet routing, our main priority is to ensure that players have as much of an uninterrupted game experience as possible, which is the reason why we have two datacenters.’

source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Guesting-is-Coming/page/3#post1221430

Google transatlantic trunk cable. That’s the cable system that pumps the entire internet. Cross-continent MMO play is almost impossible to do lag-free. That’s a pity but also a technological fact.