Warning to Oceanic and SEA players that thinking of buying this game.

[gabgram]

Oceanic and SEA players do not waste your money, don't buy Guild Wars 2. I'm an Oceanic player and have been playing this game for over 4 years now. On a good day, you will experience constant 300 pings and above gameplay delay and constant lag. On a bad day your ping will go as high as 4000 pings. And this happen frequently throughout my 4 years plus, especially every time a new patch update happen or during festival event. The high pings will continued on even up to for 2 weeks. be it PVE, PVP or WvW, the lags is everywhere. Worse is Path of Fire maps (the latest expansion) are currently unplayable with high pings spike almost all the time even for others players outside of Oceanic and SEA regions even from US.

No matter how many tickets or thread you make in the official forum, they would just merge the thread, do nothing and call it a day. Arena Net don't care anymore. You can check out the forum itself and see for yourself. I leave a link to the technical support forum and the main thread:
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/forum/8-account-technical-support/
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/106470-connection-issues-and-technical-support-sigh/
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/76483-severe-lag-spikes-disconnect-error-code-7113202101-merged/
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/106687-connection-issues-started-today-sea-player-in-na-server/
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/106446-server-very-unstable-and-laggy/
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/24374-constant-disconnects-during-story-instances/?do=getNewComment
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/55273-oceanicaustralian-servers-or-realms/
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/97903-ocxsea-crashes-and-login-errors/
also noticed the number of thread complaining on this issue and have no response at all.

Also you can try out the game for yourself. There a free trial on the official site that let you experience the core game and see for yourself how bad the ping and lag issue.

You have been warned.

[DarkSlayer197]

Postat inițial de hjjr78:

Go ingame and look at the Server list (character select screen).... You'll see for America, every server is either full, very full or high. THAT'S the problem! ArenaNet servers can only handle so many players and they have over-fed the servers and as a result, high ping, even with solid internet speed. I've been playing for some years now and if I go back just one year ago, the game was playable for me and I had less internet speed then. Now I have even more high speed internet and can't play the game at all anymore.

You all might wanna give Final Fantasy 14 online a try. It has PvP, not on the scale of GW2 but at least you won't have to deal with cheating "ArenaNet Babies" and when it's fair, it's always more fun.

ArenaNet is a horrible company all the way around!

To clarify, the population of a server is determined by how many active players of that world are playing WvW.

I can't say much else about the lag issues because I don't suffer said issue. I wouldn't accuse players with better ping as cheaters either, because that seems unlikely true and unproductive.

(PS: I WvW a lot myself and do some casual PvP. I can't say I have ever ran into a cheater. Just people who use OP builds and/or far better than me. Sucks, but it happens.)

[Ashrala]

Necro'd thread. Not once, but twice. Was made by OP and edited by OP before game even released on Steam. While the content may be relevant, outdated thread is outdated thread.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

"Anet is a horrible company because there are too many people playing their game!"

Well... points for originality, at least.

[Q]

I have plenty of friends from Australia and NZ, Singapore, Malaysia etc and yes they don't have a great ping but it's not that terrible, it gets bad during some world bosses and theres some ocassional disconnection, still they are happy with the game and we do things all the time. Btw seems like moderation has been a little inactive, usually they would lock old threads asap and say "This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion."

[Tasha Vulpine]

Postat inițial de Totally Innocent Chatbot:

"Anet is a horrible company because there are too many people playing their game!"

Well... points for originality, at least.

There aren't even that many people playing, it's just servers are trash. Nice strawman though.

[tathen]

why do people keep Necroing this thread

[ebaG-gamma]

because it is not a current issue, but an ongoing one.

"Don't waste your money." Hmm, interesting take.
If only there was a demo that people could try before they buy. Alas, demos aren't made anymore; greedy publishers with their unfinished games. smh

IT'S FREE TO PLAY, the entire full release of 2012 is FREE TO PLAY. People can check their connection quality for themselves.

Yeah, try before you buy, by all means. But don't put off playing entirely just because some rando told you so.

This belong at the top of OP's post, not at the bottom, after a long rant.

It's not that I don't sympathize with your situation Oceanic and SEA players, but the structure of OP's post is not ideal.

[Yelun]

Postat inițial de He-Man:

I have plenty of friends from Australia and NZ, Singapore, Malaysia etc and yes they don't have a great ping but it's not that terrible, it gets bad during some world bosses and theres some ocassional disconnection, still they are happy with the game and we do things all the time. Btw seems like moderation has been a little inactive, usually they would lock old threads asap and say "This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion."

Playing from Malaysia, we are not happy with the lag, it is just that we have to bear with it.

[Booter.Botter]

Playing from Philippines without vpn or Exitlag it goes 210-250ms which is fine (also depends on your ISP routing to the server, coming off from your location). It's an mmorpg and unless you wanna play competitively on WvW or PvP, it is still bearable. You can still get and rack some kills.
PvE wise, IT IS NOT an issue at least for me and people I know.

With Exitlag, it goes 195-202ms so it improved drastically. There are reports that you might get ban because of Exitlag but arenanet support rox and will unban you if ever. 3 of my guildmates have confirmed that information so it's fine. Try to look for another mmorpg that is not p2w or subscription based and if you find one that is as good as Guild Wars 2, LET US KNOW.

[Kayto]

I've played this game since closed beta, if you get 4000 ping, its probably your end. I get 250ms-270ms ping playing from South East Asia connecting to NA server. With VPN service like Mudfish (I recommend this, it has automated game connection and pay-per-use scheme that is cheap for gaming), you can get 220ms-230ms ping.
You might get 210-230ms ping connecting to EU server.

I'm sorry, but I gotta stop there about their CS. Customer Support of Arenanet is probably the best I've ever experienced for a video game. They are quick at resolving your purchase issues, deleted items, etc. They even helped me on Christmas break and resolved my credit card issue. They are the absolute best at this, and they'll take good care of you.
For lags, this game is horribly unoptimized for its CPU usage (2012 game after all). Limit character models (but not to LOWEST to ensure mechanics appear in raids).

For PvP and WvW, then yes, you will get clapped by insta-interrupts from mesmers and necros, and thieves simply deletes you before you can even dodge them. But there are bunker builds, cele builds, usual ranger kites that allows some counterplay and have fun. For high end PvE, all content are doable with respectable DPS numbers and mechanics, except maybe don't do Dhuum greens mechanics. I regularly do CM Fractals with zero issue.

[( ◉Д◉) 彡]

West Malaysian here, been playing with 190-220 ms on EU servers for 5-6 years.
Totally playable.

Check Mudfish VPN to optimize your routing to server,

[KrispyAss]

I use to play back during launch or a bit later than it. I stopped playing years ago and just tried to play it again and realized it theres no OCE servers.