Guild Wars 2

I live in Hong Kong and currently play on SoR. Will NA/EU players be able to transfer to the China server and is there any chance it will be free?

No one knows at this time. I’m sure ArenaNet will announce any plans they have when they become finalized.

China’s servers are completely separate from the NA/EU servers. If you want to play there, you’ll have to buy the Chinese version of the game. This is partly due to cultural restrictions that the government places. The game has to be modified to meet those standards.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

China’s servers are completely separate from the NA/EU servers. If you want to play there, you’ll have to buy the Chinese version of the game. This is partly due to cultural restrictions that the government places. The game has to be modified to meet those standards.

While that may be true, I don’t see any reason they can’t at least offer to swap our license or give us some credit towards the Chinese version. My issue is not so much with keeping my characters and purchases as having better latency and being apart of the majority’s timezone. Other international MMOs that also have paid region transfers have offered a grace period for transfers even when other regions are managed by a different company and transfers are not typically enabled.

MeetShawn.6025:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

China’s servers are completely separate from the NA/EU servers. If you want to play there, you’ll have to buy the Chinese version of the game. This is partly due to cultural restrictions that the government places. The game has to be modified to meet those standards.

While that may be true, I don’t see any reason they can’t at least offer to swap our license or give us some credit towards the Chinese version. My issue is not so much with keeping my characters and purchases as having better latency and being apart of the majority’s timezone. Other international MMOs that also have paid region transfers have offered a grace period for transfers even when other regions are managed by a different company and transfers are not typically enabled.

I know when City of Heroes launched their Euro servers (which were separate, for the first couple years) they offered for a short time an account transfer service.

Don’t know if there would be any different issues here with China, but it IS something NCSoft has done before.

Kong Zhong is the publisher for GW2 in China, not NC Soft. As such, I don’t think there will be any sort of connection between China’s servers, and NA/EU ones.