Guild Wars 2

I have been playing guild wars 2 for 18 months now, i enjoy wvw the most. I have invited several of my freinds to the game but most of them didn’t stay long because of severe LAG… I myself have adopted to game lag, been using double dodge all the time because its impossible for me to accurately dodge on time. On Resource Manager, gw2 latency shows 300-400mms while standing alone on spawn. When running/fighting it shoots up to 500-700mms. There are weeks after patch that lag makes the game unplayable for me, and i needed to wait for the next patch and hope that the game will be playable by then, in a year i think 2 month’s is unplayable

So im just wondering if ANET is considering having SEA server, i know we have a large population of SEA players on gw2, but based on my experience, i have invited 10 people but only 1 stayed because of severe lag.

Short answer, not that we know of.

Longer answer if they haven’t done it yet it’s unlikely they will now.

They did open chinese server recently so its not completely impossible, also SEA have 600+ million people and online gaming has been growing since 2003

It is completely impossible. They opened the Chinese server, because legally they couldn’t have copies in China without doing so, and China has 9 billion people.

Australia and New Zealand and SEA in general has always been able to buy Guild Wars 2 legally and use it here.

You think that 600 million people is a huge market, but it’s really not, since most of us who are going to play already bought the game.

It’s been out for 2.5 years.

China wasn’t just a server park it was a complete rewrite of the game to customize it for Chinese law and culture. It was a new market for Anet.

This is an existing market. There’s no reason for them to spend the money. And I’m in Australia, btw.

Ok nvm… Btw china has 1.4 billion people, while the world has around 6b few years ago… just saying

No idea where the 9 billion number came up, I knew it was high, but I just picked one at random. It wasn’t worth googling.

My point is it was a completely new market for Anet, and we’re not.

If they did I wouldn’t move there and I doubt any of my guildies would either. It’s way too late for some us. Plus they’d need three servers to accommodate WvW. It might make for smaller or less zergs but would divide the customer base a little too much.

Actually I think I know where I got the nine billion number from. It’s that Monty Python song I like Chinese where they said there’s 900,000,000 of them. Just stuck in my head, I suppose. Bad interpolation.

What Zenleto said is the other part that I forgot. This has been discussed multiple times since launch on the forums, which is why I responding with certainty.

I have chinese friends playing gw2 way before chinese server started so i think they cant be considered new market while SEA isn’t… Also I only learned about gw2 18 months ago, so i wasn’t sure if this was already discussed.

I think mod can close this now since it has already been discuss 2 years ago

Mounts, capes, and the trinity get talked about every couple of days so we might as well keep this open! Just because we’ve talked about it before doesn’t mean its not worth discussing now. Even if the answer is No.

I hope not, because I’ll miss you.

I would assume that they are considering all possibilities, but there simply isn’t enough demand for a SEA server for it to be worth investing in it.

As of right now, NA and Chinese clients are planned. When everything is set and the info is given they will make more clients. I think I heard Colin say this in an interview.

Wouldn’t there then be a WvW issue. You would need a minimum of 3 Sea Servers to cover Red, Blue and Green in WvW and if you only had three you would constantly fight the same 2 servers all the time.
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Would the the Sea servers be just added to the NA rotation? And then if so, wouldn’t there still be a lag issue?

The Sea. client would get a big list of it’s own servers, I am assuming translations of ours perhaps? And then it would/should work out just like NA/EU/Chinese (I don’t know what the abbreviation for Chinese is ;P)

Vayne.8563:

China has 9 billion people.

Hahaha good one mate, more like 1.35 billion.