Merged: Australian Servers?

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> @"joneirikb.7506" said:

> > @"Nynja.1674" said:

> > > @"joneirikb.7506" said:

> > > Other aspects of splitting to australia servers is that you'd be split off from NA, so there would be much less players playing in maps, pvp etc. It would also require minimum 3 servers for WvW, and I have no idea if there is enough Australia/Oceanic players to fill up 3 servers and make it an interesting matchup in wvw, I can only imagine players would stack that like mad and it would become an even bigger clusterkitten than we already got in NA/EU. Not to mention, with 1 tier, there is no-where to run/tank to.

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> > Aye, I'll admit that I hadn't thought of breaking away from Americans. I usually look for Australian Guilds to play with so we all run together. It may seem like a risk, and it can be daunting to take that risk, but there are a lot of Australians playing GW2 concurrently (or at least, there are enough of us begging for our own server/s) and the irony here, is that the Oceanic playerbase would increase if servers were ours to play on. Some developers recognize this and have given Oceania servers to play on. WoW's Oceanic servers, for example, have high to max population during peak hours and even when I'm playing at 3am, there are [at most] 3 servers with high population and 5 or so with low population.

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> > We do actually exist, and we do actually play MMORPGs XD Sarcasm aside, Australia often gets overlooked because developers refuse to believe that there are enough of us to justify the risks of adding datacenters in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne. There are plenty of us though, believe that.

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> Having played WvW, I know there are lots of Asuralians..... I mean Australians.... and how you guys affect wvw ppt :)

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> And I'm pretty sure that if ANet thought it would be economically viable they would consider it and pitch the idea for NCsoft etc. But in most cases, companies makes that kind of decision at launch, and stick to it for the games life, wow isn't exactly a good example being the single biggest and most popular MMO game in history and going strong for 15 years.

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> I mean personally I'd love to see you guys get some servers locally, both because playing with high ping sucks, but also because it might actually even out the coverage for more NA servers in WvW.

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> But depending on the numbers and behaviour (which we don't have the numbers for, but ANet might) of 'stralians, I suspect that ones that would end up suffering the most are the 'stralians. Some people are already complaining that some maps feel empty in EU/NA, PVP would have a much smaller pool making it very difficult to find good matches, and WvW has every potential to become an even more polarized cluster-kitten than it already is on NA.

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> WvW for example, say that the two largest "oceanic" servers in NA decided that we're going to stack on the same AU-server to play together, you might end up with 1 very stacked server, and 1 medium, and 1 almost empty server. That would be a receipt for a horrible match-up.

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> Simply put, ANet sits on the numbers, we don't really know how many 'stralians there are, or if it would be enough to create a own thriving data-center. Even if an AU-DC would cause the population to double, we don't know if that would be enough or not. And I'm pretty sure that if ANet looked at the numbers and thought it was big enough, they probably would have done it.

 

You're absolutely correct. With no real way for any of us to view actual, concurrent, population numbers within specific countries, it's not viable to ask Arenanet to consider adding more datacenters in countries that lack them. It's a shame and I am only beginning to accept this as the unfortunate circumstance of living here, that we will never be considered "worth it" ):

 

Adding to your point about map population, I've noticed that too. As I leave the starter areas, map pop becomes abysmally low which sucks for world boss encounters. I love solo play as much as I love group play, but with no-one to help fight world bosses, I can't access half of the armor and weapons content I want. As for whether or not we can fill three servers, I believe it's possible if Arenanet push or market the addition of Oceanic servers.

 

Idk about y'all, but I tend to google MMORPG's server populations/server locations before investing in the long term grind. Since I had purchased GW2 when it first released, I never really cared to abandon it cuz I love it; only to continue supporting Arenanet and engaging with the communities, also recognizing that server locations were obviously exclusive to Europe and America and that it would not be likely to add more datacenters in Australia shortly after release. It's been seven years though. I would have thought that seven years of commitment would have earned us our own server/s, even if the general consensus is to, as you've stated, add these servers at launch. That would be a part of the risk, as most developers believe we don't exist, or are so backward (we kind of are, in all fairness) that we wouldn't even have the money to afford to play these game (jokes on you guys, a majority of us play subscription-based MMORPGs).

 

I usually use WoW as an example because Blizzard have done [almost] everything right, (exclude Legion, that was a disaster) and so WoW is worthy of its legendary status. It should be the basis and influence for every new MMORPG, cuz 15 years is considered an impossible lifespan for any game let alone an MMORPG (Ultima Online started the mass craze and didn't even last that long). I want GW2 to live a longer life than GW1 (and to bring back the Monk class pls, GW1's Monk class was awesome), and to live a long life in general.

 

Arenanet, pls consider us!