Guild Wars 2

Ok so call me by my account name, but I just found out about the whole NA/EU lock – players from NA servers can’t visit EU maps, and vice versa. I found this out while trying to help a friend that was doing arah that had just moved temporarily to an EU server. Ok, here is the rant:

First of all, fix the error message. How many people are going to figure out what ‘network error’ means on their own? Furthermore, this implies a client side error rather than a weird cross-server issue.

Next, why can’t we guest to servers outside our region? The guesting service used to have a purpose, but now it has none.

Finally, I understand the issues of having a character on multiple region servers. Data has to be moved, etc, etc. Don’t give me that lecture.

Here is my proposal: Accounts will be able to guest cross-region provided that they have a friend or guildie on the destination server. This guesting shall have a maximum period of one week, and may be only done a few times a month, in order to reduce I/O and network overhead. Normal guesting rules apply: You can’t WvWvW on the guesting server, etc.

I would even be satisfied with a fix to dungeons that let you get around this. Whatever works best.

Truely,
Scáth (it’s pronounced sk-AY-th, by the way)