Cross-Region play needs to happen

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Posted by: Deihnyx.6318

Deihnyx.6318

Hello,

So, yesterday something interesting happened.
I moved to NA a few years ago (both in game and physically) and have been enjoying GW2 with NA friends with minimal lag (40ish ms).

However, yesterday, I was not able to connect to the server while all my friends from NA were able to.
The only reason I can find is that part of my account remains in the European servers.

So here’s my question, knowing that, and knowing that I’m not experiencing any lag… why is it still not possible to allow cross region guesting?

The way it is done right now, guesting is absolutely useless because mega-servers got rid of the issue once and for all. I had a friend today – whom I bought PoF to and was hoping to get him to like the game again – complaining to me because he couldn’t play with his brother… who is in Europe. He thought that it was what guesting was about…

I mean, I can totally understand the confusion, and it’s hard to provide an answer as to why this is still a limitation. You can join the same guilds, pm each other, send mails (with items) to each other… but actually playing? Nope.

Come on Anet, make it happen. If it can’t be instant guesting that’s fine, but then allow us to send one of our character to another region for X days, something like that, make guesting a per character based thing where you pay a certain amount of gems to anchor a character in another region for this purpose. Anything would be better than completely removing the possibility from people to play together…

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Posted by: Ellieanna.5027

Ellieanna.5027

Because NA and EU servers are very separate. And it’s not an Anet things. it’s a legal thing.

Blizzard is forced into the same issue. They have EU and NA servers for WoW, and they are also in the same place as GW2. It’s not like they aren’t allowing it because they want to be mean. Doesn’t that seem counter-intuitive for a for-profit business?

I’m a Moose, a ginger moose even.

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Posted by: Deihnyx.6318

Deihnyx.6318

Because NA and EU servers are very separate. And it’s not an Anet things. it’s a legal thing.

Blizzard is forced into the same issue. They have EU and NA servers for WoW, and they are also in the same place as GW2. It’s not like they aren’t allowing it because they want to be mean. Doesn’t that seem counter-intuitive for a for-profit business?

What legal issue are we talking about?
- You can still transfer from one region to another, you just have to pay gem, there is no “legal” agreement for doing so.
- You can still pay gems with euros or dollars, or use a euro credit card on a US account.
- GW1 allows it on the fly.

So if it’s a legal issue, I’m really curious as to what it could be that would only prevent it for GW2 and not GW, and only for instant, free transfers.

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Posted by: Eastrider.7391

Eastrider.7391

Back when the game launched it was PERFECTLY possible! Transfers were free. You were in NA or in EU in the matter of seconds.

Now, I’m stuck in EU, which is good… but I can’t play with the few friends I used to play with in NA.

Given that transfers only make sense for WvW now, which was the reason why there was a weekly cap first, and a gem cost later; why can’t we choose an EU home server AND an NA home server when we register? Or, if to limit WvW, simply to choose a “main” one for WvW in your home server, and then a secondary one in the other (if you want) to be able to use guesting; which has been quite useless since megaservers anyway…

The most complex thing I can think of would be, maybe, keeping track of a character and an account in both servers, like local progress storage. But I’m not sure if that’s an actual issue or not, something only Anet can tell.

And remember; GW1 allows it on the fly, as Deihnyx said.

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Posted by: Bubbagump.4158

Bubbagump.4158

they need to work on the american ping issue they are apparently having before a cross between the us and eu servers happen , that’s the biggest issue about mixing the two , our US pings will not run the same with EU pings , us will see pings of like 143 and up to eu and vise versa that’s the reason. right now Me and apparently several others are seeing bad ping spikes in the us server.

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Posted by: Deihnyx.6318

Deihnyx.6318

they need to work on the american ping issue they are apparently having before a cross between the us and eu servers happen , that’s the biggest issue about mixing the two , our US pings will not run the same with EU pings , us will see pings of like 143 and up to eu and vise versa that’s the reason. right now Me and apparently several others are seeing bad ping spikes in the us server.

I was playing to NA servers while living in Europe. It works fine, it’s better than OCS playing in NA server (~250ms ping).

The ping is an issue, but a separate one, if you go play in a region that isn’t yours, obviously you won’t have the best ping, but that’s on the player. And anyway it’s possible already today.