Guild Wars 2

To XiaMae:

The question is why in the world wouldn’t they pick a time that even more majority of people can see? League of Legends world Tournament (whose stream took up 5% of the total bandwidth of the US while it was on btw) was run on Saturday for NA. Do you know why? Cause they’re considerate and don’t put it on Monday for all of Australia and Asia. Even putting it at the exact same time but on Sat/Sun instead of Sun/Mon would’ve been alot better, since most people don’t need to run off to work on Sundays.

Dude no one said the proportion of people on the EU servers would be 740:530. That would be silly, why would NA people want to play on EU servers?

I would assume proportions of EU servers would be 9 Eu: 1 Anything else. However, on the American servers, I would be surprised if it wasn’t at least 7:3 American to Australia/Asia. Which still makes Aus/Asia a decently big chunk of Anet’s playerbase.

Sorry I live in Australia, not everyone thinks of only their own problems. My point was just to illustrate that giving us the population numbers of how many people live in these continents is completely pointless. Australia/Asia could easily have as many actual ‘players’ as those continents. Half my guild is Australian or Asian in fact. By your statistics I should have like 1 Aussie for every 20 NA people. And that’s just not the case.

Sorry Claudius. What’s the population of Asia again? Or even just China? It will be 3am for them.

@ Polantaris. No one said we wanted you to cater to us INSTEAD of you. We just want it to cater to both us and you.

Bumped since my sylvari gets uglier the more I look at her.

Go Sandy go! If NE US net goes down, then you’ll all get to feel like the rest of us who are in Asia/Australia and got screwed over by Anet not doing any foreplanning and deciding it to run it on a Sun/Mon day instead of a Sat/Sun day.

This timing is exceedingly unfair and badly thought out. Why couldn’t they have run it on a Saturday for NA which would be Sunday for Aus/Asia? That is actually more fair then expecting people to be on at 3-6am on a Monday morning.

I agree this is completely unfair. It’s not like Australia is a small playerbase. If large gaming companies such as Riot can be considerate enough to run things on Fri/Sat instead of Sat/Sun so that it doesn’t dig into Australia’s Mondays, why can’t Anet?

Putting it on the morning of a work day is completely unfair. Sure your event runs from 6am-2pm our time (AEST). People go to work and school on Mondays until 5pm. Huzzah not being able to attend the event at all is so much better than having seen it on videos and being able to do it. rolls eyes

Plus, Anet is working on the assumption people are actually going to go look up videos of the event. Why would we when a) If we haven’t done it it just spoils it for us and b) If we can’t do it, it just reminds us of what we can’t get?