Guild Wars 2

I fully understand that in GW1 you didn’t feel the game was big enough to invest in better servers for players but in GW2 this is pathetic. Yes I’m in Europe now and I’m playing on an American server but I get the exact same ping back home in Australia.

I was hoping they would get better but it just seems you don’t want to cater to Australian players in the slightest. Some things to note with this kind of ping:

• I can’t dodge 3/4s skills
• I can barely use instant skills (Shouts/Blind) to deny 3/4s skills
• Quite often the dodge I use doesn’t count (client and server too far out of sync)
• Quickness makes it so I can’t dodge 1s skills
• If I get slightly more lag it changes to not being able to deal with 1s skills

Now I know some of you may say “well play on the European servers when in Europe” but:

• YOU won’t let me change servers without paying
• While in Australia I will lag on both American and European servers

I want to play competitively but how can I if I’m shut down due to your useless servers. Not to mention the lame freeze lag everybody just gets for no reason which makes the game 100% unplayable for a few hours.
Australia has a decent player base give us a server so we can actually play too. You’re way behind Blizzard and even Jagex on this.

You played GW1 before? When yes, had you allrdy lags in it?

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

You played GW1 before? When yes, had you allrdy lags in it?

Not sure what you’re trying to say here sorry =S

Jax.5261:

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

You played GW1 before? When yes, had you allrdy lags in it?

Not sure what you’re trying to say here sorry =S

Mabye you had problems with A-Net servers before. Otherwise it’s either your internet connection or australia itself (if other australian players have connection-issues too).

Well it’s just latency between myself and the server (which has significantly increased over the last months).
All Australian players will experience a decent amount of lag and I do have one of the best internet services you can get in AUS. I have tested on 3 friends’ computers and on this one in Europe and all experience the same lag.
Yes, this computer isn’t very good and can only just play GW2 but the internet is amazing and should give me a low ping. I tried on the European servers a few minutes ago and ended up with just over 400 ping which is better but still not good.

Guild Wars 1 just had lag due to the connection between me and the servers. But even though it wasn’t ideal it still held below 400 for me usually. Sometimes on American servers I’d even get 200 and currently I get 10-50ms ping on GW1 (because I’m in Europe next to a server) but I still lag in GW2.
This leads me to the conclusion that something else is playing a factor in the lag (not my pc either at home due to it being top of the line).

It’s just so frustrating that I have to find out some other way to beat specific builds because I simply can’t dodge things other people can.

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

Mabye you had problems with A-Net servers before. Otherwise it’s either your internet connection or australia itself (if other australian players have connection-issues too).

If I remember correctly, it was impossible for a Canadian to have less than 150 ping when playing gvg. Big boys like Jatt even changed providers in order to go from 200-250 to 150-200.

Compare this to HoN where I get sub 150 ping in EU and safely under 100 ping in US.

Anet servers are powered by hamsters on wheels, don’t you know? ANETcan’t afford faster hamsters when there’s no monthly fee and the stuff in the digital store isn’t a pay2win cash grab like other MMOs.

Bandwidth costs money. If ANET upgraded their servers, they’d go bankrupt and have to shut the whole game down.

From what I`ve read & heard, SamboNZ on youtube & livestreams mentioned it too, most of Australian internet is having huge problems at the minute with some rumours of attacks on the lines etc.

Having said that, Kharr has it spot on. The current hamsters are old & dying from not being fed properly, probably due to them not getting enough money to keep decent internet bandwidth pipelines.

Of course, if they actually had proper armour/weapon etc skins rather then the completely pointless town clothes, perhaps the hamster could have some nitrous ox-seed quality food & things would improve….

<doesn`t hold breath>

australia vs Europe or US will always have unplayable lag for an action game. (Europe vs US as well.)

as someone who plays fighting games, where matches are peer to peer, the harsh reality of the internet is really hammered into you – intercontinental gaming is simply impossible with action games. there are no magical servers that can fix this.

as for an Australian server, are you thinking things through? cross server matches are not supported (and meaningless since you’ll get intercontinental lag anyways) so you’ll only be playing against other Aussies. considering the pvp population at the moment, i doubt thus would be particularly worthwhile.