Guild Wars 2

I’m sure this has already been talked about before, but I’m bringing it up again to further reinforce the demand for this.

Any word as to when/if ArenaNet plans to establish an Oceanic/Asia data center for players from Austrailia, Japan, Korea, etc? We love you long time! If it’s a matter of funding (which I doubt), I’ll go as far as getting a kickstarter going to get you some cash for this thing.

It is probably a matter of population.
It is likely that the amount of people that would benefit from such a data-center is too low to justify spending the money and resources on it.

Anet has never said they would establish an Oceanic data center.

The Oceanic playerbase isn’t large enough to justify new servers. Think about how WvW works. You need more than 3 servers for it to work and if you spread the oceanic player base across that much it just wouldn’t work…

Also you end up with what happened in GW1 happening. Everyone eventually just shifted over to playing on the US servers because the EU servers were always so empty and the playerbase needed to be close enough together for people to get to play with others.

There’s the Chinese version of Guild Wars 2, but it’s licensed to a separate producer. If you pay on their servers, you’ll be cut off from the rest of us.

I’m coming more from a performance and latency standpoint. I wasn’t referring to creating a third group of servers that have a separate WvW like NA and EU do. But if they can’t do it then hey they can’t do it. Just thought I’d ask.

Connecting us with Asia wouldn’t really help in any significant way due to how the sea cables are set up

http://www.submarinecablemap.com/

if you’re on the east coast everything’s being routed out through sydney (and you wouldn’t want to go cross country since our land based internet is crud) which really just splits the country in two. West coast would benefit from singapore but not really japan, east coast would not benefit from singapore (it’d be slow than going to the usa). If you stuck it in Sydney, it wouldn’t really benefit Japanese over the current US (as they have multiple direct connections to the US but only a few indirect connections to Australia).