Guild Wars 2

Really, the servers should have been Global and not regional right from the start.
It was obvious that the big alliances were going to give a heavy focus on off-peak dominance to get the edge in games, now if the servers were all Global ones this wouldnt have been so much of an issue because it would have always been prime time somewhere.

Is it too late to revert to this? If so, what are peoples feelings on making WvW rankings and matchups Global? This would pit the strong 24/7 servers of both regions against each other and maybe stop this 1 server domination which is happening on both sides of the water.

give a perma death wvwvw death match! everyone on the server gets 1 life to enter with and play untill last server standing!

Not to late – it just needs something like

[i]Arena Net Announcement – We have been delighted with the games launch and the popularity of our W3 system, however it has come to light that our server structure is not as optimised as it could be to give our players the best experience possible.

With this in mind all Players Homeworlds will be reset on the 7th October (Players and guilds will maintain all progression to date).

Servers will all become international enabling players from all over the world to play together, and engage in a permanent ongoing W3 environment. When servers reach full capacity they will be locked so as to not ruin players game play.

It is our hope that with numerous servers with a 24/7 playerbase that the game will be able to realise it’s full potential.[/i]

By doing that and reducing the number of servers by 5 or 6 (remove the highest pop ones so if people just go tot he default “lets join the same server again” then at least the highest part of the population will be spread out.

7 days should be enough time for alliances / Guilds to come up with a plan – and everyone else will be happy to have full servers….. with the game on sale still, and full servers locked all servers should have healthy populations.

Sadly, it’s how it should have been at launch.

Eg

global servers wouldnt have fixed anything, thb. quite the contrary, it would be even worse

most people would naturally gravitate to servers closer to them (europeans to EU servers, americans to US servers) due to ping issues.

and the same people would still stack certain servers as they do now to win with the least amount of effort possible.

so you would have pretty much the same problems you have now, plus some stupid matchups like low-population US server vs low population EU server, where both sides pretty much play alone during their peaks, and people rarely gets to see an enemy.

servers should have been region locked, a hard cap on populations should have been imposed, and free transfers should have been shut down 2 weeks ago.

period

that would have fixed “most” of the problems

and yes, its too late now. ANet now has a game that is but a shade of what it could have been, because first they didnt plan ahead, and second they refused to act on a timely manner.

GW2 has gone from savior of the genre, to just another filler till the next big thing comes.

JustKarma.2985:

give a perma death wvwvw death match! everyone on the server gets 1 life to enter with and play untill last server standing!

haha, I actually like this idea!

Back to OP, it’s hard to imagine that they will take such a big step now as to do that.

Some people really complain so much. Is it because HOD had a big come back? Now people are screaming “unbalanced?”

Malarky.9546:

Some people really complain so much. Is it because HOD had a big come back? Now people are screaming “unbalanced?”

Yes it is. Argument is: because Oceanics exist, therefore unfair.

Konrad Curze.5130:

global servers wouldnt have fixed anything, thb. quite the contrary, it would be even worse

most people would naturally gravitate to servers closer to them (europeans to EU servers, americans to US servers) due to ping issues.

Not if all the servers were located in the same place e.g. say East Coast US and designated Global for all the players. As a EU player on NA servers I can tell you the game is fine.

Konrad Curze.5130:

and the same people would still stack certain servers as they do now to win with the least amount of effort possible.

If full servers are locked they simply cannot – you have your server – fight for it or PvE, no riding others coat tails.

Konrad Curze.5130:

so you would have pretty much the same problems you have now, plus some stupid matchups like low-population US server vs low population EU server, where both sides pretty much play alone during their peaks, and people rarely gets to see an enemy.

There would be more full servers, and more with 24/7 presence. Locking full servers when they pop caps would mean new NA/EU players/guilds would goto the lower population servers – it will right itself over time.

Konrad Curze.5130:

servers should have been region locked, a hard cap on populations should have been imposed, and free transfers should have been shut down 2 weeks ago.

period

that would have fixed “most” of the problems

No it would not, you would still have winning servers, you would have the jobless / welfare server allegations, you would still have low population servers that cannot compete as people tfr and bandwagon.

Konrad Curze.5130:

and yes, its too late now. ANet now has a game that is but a shade of what it could have been, because first they didnt plan ahead, and second they refused to act on a timely manner.

GW2 has gone from savior of the genre, to just another filler till the next big thing comes.

Sadly, this in part I agree – If they do not do something the game will lose a lot of it’s player base within a month or two.

It won’t work.
Not because of a technical aspect but for social reasons.

You guys and gals from the US aren’t ready to have Non English speaking players amongst you. We’re used to it on International EU servers but you aren’t and as we do have “common” playing hours, esepcially during week-ends it’ll become another issue, above the queues it would generate.

Not sure Nidwin – a lot of player bases would find common homes French/Quebec – Spanish/Italian/Portuguese /South American etc….

Due to time zones the overlap would be those playing morning/afternoon NA meeting EU players playing at night – I think it would have worked out ok…. at a lot of US players mingle with the global gaming community ok – I am sure the rest will manage.

I agree with global servers.

I’m a Aedgyth but the idea is still great.

Portuguese only with Brasil
Spanish with the rest of South and Central America
5 French servers in the EU and Quebec GW2 can’t fill them up
Germans? (they only speak German or don’t speak at all)
Russians? I can’t read that europeen chineese of them (joke boys)
Italians?
Scandinaviens speak English most of the time so no issue here
Greeks?
…

There’s a avery good reason we have French, German and Spanish servers you know. ;-)

nidwin.6731:

It won’t work.
Not because of a technical aspect but for social reasons.

You guys and gals from the US aren’t ready to have Non English speaking players amongst you. We’re used to it on International EU servers but you aren’t and as we do have “common” playing hours, esepcially during week-ends it’ll become another issue, above the queues it would generate.

I played FFXI for 4 years, all the servers were international and highly favored JPs (just by the design of the game itself). There was still very little problems with the game regarding the social aspect, in fact, it was probably the most social MMO ever. It even had an autotranslate function to help you communicate. It was limited, yes, but you could 90% of the time get your point across speaking purely in autotranslate.

If you select language at game start – wonder is translate system would work, everything on your chat box showing as a auto translate into your chosen language – lets be honest most W3 is along the lines of

WwwwwwwwwQqqq111222 help

which is kinda universal language :-)

I think Nidwin has a point. One only needs to look at a game like League of Legends to see the constant whining going on there about foreign speaking players.