Guild Wars 2

Ok, with all the timezone whining going around in almost every GW2 community I visited for the past 24 hours, why not match NA and EU servers instead of keeping them separate?

It creates a wider timezone audience. Asia-Pacific/ASEAN/Oceanic (whatever you want to call them – though I prefer Asia-Pacific – non-racial mind you) will find their matches with EU gamers and vice versa. It will make everyone adapt, and make WvW even more challenging and dynamic.

Currently, we all know that NA is mostly either NA or Asia-Pacific timezone. EU is EU or Canadian timezone (accdg to another thread that is). WvW domination usually happen because we’re all on two opposite timezones.

But what will happen if one day we get matched against an EU server for example? So for a week (currently it’s a week), we have SoS, IoJ, and an EU server matching. SoS is mostly Asia-Pacific timezone, IoJ is mostly balance, and EU an EU timezone.

Still I wonder how much of a balance IoJ is when EU wakes up. I don’t know EU’s WvW timeslot but I won’t be surprised if IoJ gets dominated when EU wakes up. So suddenly, IoJ is vulnerable. This will give say SoS a fighting chance to defeat IoJ.

Not like now, IoJ is dominating SoS all the time (even before the change to weekly, we were higher than SoS).

Throw your ideas. Don’t debate, discuss it. Personally, technical issues aside, I’d choose that EU and NA gets matched and ranked as one. In fact, I believe ANet should categorically state that the “branding” of “EU and NA” servers is nothing but “database and peering” base. Because that’s what it is, it isn’t about “EU server is for EU only” or “NA server is for NA only”, which some EU and NA players are whining about – to the point that they call everyone else “foreigners”. (So yeah, ANet please clear this one out, it will help the community too if you release an official statement about the branding.)

Start the discussion. Maybe you have other ideas, but please let’s not debate about it and let’s be open-minded (no “this is the only solution” or “penalized the non-EU / non-NA because the server is EU / NA in the first place!”)

My suggestion: match up NA and EU servers, rank them as one, it gives a challenge, timezone is more spread. Dominating timezones will more likely than not, have problems this time.

I told that before and i say it now, there whould be no EU/US/Asia servers only international servers when game started, whole world mixed up and 24/7 battles without night capping and weird timezomes advantages.

Latency.

No matter where you locate the servers someone would end up with poorer performance than they are used to. People who are used to playing with sub 100ms pings would claim the game is “unplayable” if they had to play with 200+ms pings.

Now they say its unplayable because WvW is totally unbalanced so what a diffrence.

There’s a pretty big difference between “I don’t want to play because I’m losing” and “The game is completely unresponsive so I can’t (won’t) play”.

Of course the game is quite playable at ~200ms pings but its a perspective issue. If you are used to playing with that latency you won’t have a problem and if you aren’t used to it then you’ll probably find it “unplayable”.

Ashanae.9362:

I told that before and i say it now, there whould be no EU/US/Asia servers only international servers when game started, whole world mixed up and 24/7 battles without night capping and weird timezomes advantages.

This^^^^^

It’s only because people have the idea ‘this is our server, so make sure it caters to us’ that we now have these ridiculous debates around night capping.

If people joined international servers and QQ about night capping you could laugh at them for being ignorant and joining a server that was 1 continent only.

As it is we have to keep hearing about Oceanic players and their capping abilities. Who knew that oceanic people held so much power?

Don’t worry in EU you hear ALL THE TIME about French Canadians do night capping.

@Tzash i think all depends, i’m for example an EU player but due to my weird hours ect my primetime is when all EU servers are ghost towns ( like 5 ppl in WvW and no one in PvE ) so i go to US servers instead and yes i got 20-30ms more but game runs more smoothly for me then in EU, its weird i know.

Ashanae.9362:

@Tzash i think all depends, i’m for example an EU player but due to my weird hours ect my primetime is when all EU servers are ghost towns ( like 5 ppl in WvW and no one in PvE ) so i go to US servers instead and yes i got 20-30ms more but game runs more smoothly for me then in EU, its weird i know.

Yeah, its all about perspective. I play from Oz so I’m used to ~200-600ms pings in any MMO I play and they are all still playable to me. But I’ve seen plenty of posts from US based players over the years raging about lag whenever theirs went over 100ms.

If there is only a 20-30ms difference between NA and EU then that sounds ok, but I doubt that would be consistent for all countries, given international routing can be very odd in places.