Guild Wars 2

After a lot of reading, of everything people have said and related posts. I see 1 thing emerging.

That is that no matter where you live in the world (excluding America/Europe) you are forced to play with high latency, and It seems we all feel each “others pain”.
I see a lot of “your country doesn’t have the player base to support…” this makes me laugh every time. (and its not just Africa they are saying this to).. I feel if they did give out more servers the Americans and European people would get lonely xD, Half of their population on their servers would just up and leave (and yet this is an overlooked issue?). But its easy to tell someone that their country can not support a player base with out ever doing any census.

Now please don’t get me wrong I’m not saying lets give every place in the whole world its own server (that wouldn’t make sense) lets just distribute the servers a little smarter. There are so many places playing with high latency. add 1 server to the mix, re-distribute, all of a sudden every1 has 150 and below <-In an idealized world

Thank you all for your feedback (realistically speaking we wont see anything happen with gw2, but I’m hoping for future games to learn from the struggles of past games, this topic being the most heated it seems).

Phillip.9318:

Sorry, that will never happen. So few countries in Africa have reliable internet on a constant basis and those that have don’t all have a large gaming community. Even in South Africa where I live, many people have access to the internet and it is quite common to meet a gamer, but very few of the gamers you meet play gw2. So maybe you have many friends that play gw2 but as the other posters have pointed out the market for gw2 is too small here to be able to support a server.

I Dont follow? There are plenty of gamers in Africa, enough to fill a Wold of warcraft server, Dota servers and much more. You have to wonder if the lack of African players in gw2 is due to the latency to the far away server, and not the lack of ‘potential players’?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

One of the big questions, besides the cost to ANet to do this, is your population enough to support it? You do realize you’ll be cut off from both the NA and EU populations. You’ll be off on a server grouping by yourself and you’ll need enough people to fill 3 servers so you can have the 3 sided WvW servers. Unless there are enough people to make 6 servers, then it will be those 3 servers only and the people on them.

Mh, I see what you are saying, but what you seem to be overlooking is that when it comes to things like WvW from africa, that is not a playable option anyway. With a 300 ping by the time I’ve see you walk around the corner, im aready dead.
And it can get very tiring trying to hit a mob with your sword in PvE just to be told the visual you saw, of your sword slicing its head off, didnt even register on the server side

Thanks for your feedback though, this is a concern worth thinking about, but maybe another option could be made for things like WvW, just need 1 good idea

As an African gamer, We often run into the problem with MMO servers only ever being oversea’s, far away from ourselves.

300ms latency is a standered life for us, on a good day. But I feel its time that we ask for a more local server, something much closer than 300ms with the best possible Internet access.

After looking around at support pages I noticed a way to check my connection to the server and according to the support page, when im playing on a good day, my connection is rated fairly poor quality xD.

This request is clearly a large feat to achieve, but one that is absolutely possible.
I’d like to hear from more Africans, and get your opinion on the matter, or the opinion of anyone regarding to the experience of 300ms and up.