Guild Wars 2

This feature was indeed one of Guild Wars 1 strongest selling points, and I have so many friends that switched from WoW to GW1 just for that very reason. As they didn’t like that they had to have seperate game copies for the different regions, while in GW1 you could even use the same character worldwide and play with ALL your friends and family worldwide.

The reason for “oh the data server might crash, so we made 2 so at least 1 region would be up while the other is down” is pretty silly to me. Especially since in all the years I played GW1; I only experienced the dataserver crashing one time…

Some times developers are foolish to turn their backs on the things that made them so successful… what’s next? Guild Wars 3 subscription based???

I’m just saying, it’s not such a far fetch to me, and yes, that is how angry I am about this.

Vayne.8563:

I remember a huge player uprising a couple of years ago on guru, when Anet first said the regions wouldn’t have crossover and the players really got up in arms. Anet said, at that time, they couldn’t promise, but they’d see if they could do it. In the end, after testing, they decided they couldn’t. It’s unfortunate, but they did say originally they couldn’t, and the most they said after was that they’d try.

Unfortunately if you haven’t been following the game as long as I have, you might have missed the first outcry about it.

Yeah, I haven’t been following much, just the bits of news here and there thus why I missed the outcry about it.

There is a way though, they could have gone for a similar setup as on GW1 and thus have a shared datacenter for all regions. Which as they have already stated that is the whole reason you can’t guest cross-region, as they instead opted to go for split datacenters out of a fear of the datacenter going offline/crashing.

Well I see now from the more recent stuff that they made it more clear that Guild Wars 2 would end up being pretty region restricted actually, which is too bad. As this was one of Guild Wars’ biggest features for me. Since I have many friends in both Europe and USA.

As for what lead me to believe such, well it’s the more older stuff:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-world-of-choice-the-regions-of-guild-wars-2/
https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/182439559144022016

Those two and more, just comments mostly from devs earlier on that Guild Wars 2 players could play together across region, but they were probably thinking more about the fact you could transfer to any server region and not so much about the guesting.

What was said aside. It is too bad they decided to go for split datacenters. In all the years that GW1 was out the shared datacenter was never an issue, I don’t see why it suddenly has to be made into a big deal for GW2.

Perhaps one day they will get their sanity back and merge the datacenters? Who knows… Until then, no playing with my US buddies and probably the last GW game I buy then……

Hey guys,

I am a bit shocked about this, but basically I am on an EU server and I can guest fine onto any other EU server, but when I then want to play with my American friends and try to guest to their servers, it says you are only allowed to guest within your region?!?

This is pretty shocking and I am extremely disappointed by this as we were lead to believe there would be NO regional boundaries at all, and there are plenty of OFFICIAL announcements by GW2 devs that this would indeed be the case, thus that you could guest to any region from any region.

I do see I can transfer to a US server, but as I understand it you are limited in the number of free transfers and I am not going to pay for something which should not even be required anyway (thus that I should just be able to guest onto a US server?!).

Anyone know if GW2 devs plan on fixing this issue and when? It is a pretty massive deal to me and I might stop playing the game completely as a result, that’s how much it bothers me.