Guild Wars 2

Earlier today I wanted to do fractiles, but there was no one doing my level on my server. It was late in Europe, so there weren’t many people on. So I figured, “No problem, I’ll just use gw2lfg.com and I can just right click join in overflow to be with the party.” Well apparently, that isn’t the case because a player on a European server can’t join a player on an American server. The join overflow option takes you to a different overflow. I can’t really see the reasoning behind this though, why are European servers separated from U.S. ones? The physical servers are in the same place, so it’s not a lag/latency issue (I actually live in the U.S. despite being on a EU server), so I don’t really see any reason to prevent players on U.S. and players on EU servers from playing with each other. Wouldn’t it be better if people could just play together? It is an MMO after all.

edit: Oh, well I guess what I heard was wrong then.

The servers are not in the same place, the EU ones are in Germany, hence it is a performance issue.

I would guess language differences might be part of the reason. I was not aware that most Europeans were as fluent in English as you obviously are.