What regions ?

[123]

EU and US only ? No SEA / Asia / Oceania ?

[Abloogy Woogy Woo]

Asia is administered by a different company. I think Oceania players generally play on NA servers.

[Jag]

This is what I wanted to find out, cbf playign with ping, its not 2004 anymore. OCE or why bother

[[TW]Chiu]

this must be a joke, region lock?

[123]

Originally posted by TWChiu:

this must be a joke, region lock?

Not about that kind of region limitation. It's not region locked. But region I'm asking here is for more options for finding the closest server to where we live to get better ping.

Only EU and US. So pvp is gonna suck for ppl outside of those regions.

[Riffzilla]

100% No OCE = no pay

[gameshogun]

Originally posted by Abloogy Woogy Woo:

Asia is administered by a different company. I think Oceania players generally play on NA servers.

There is no "Asia" server in Guild Wars 2.

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To the OP:

There are two regions managed by the game developer ArenaNet:
1: North American (NA) region
2: European (EU) region

Each region, NA and EU, have various worlds. However, note the following:
a. Cross-region features: Guilds, Mail, Trading Post
b. All other PvE features are cross-world within the same region
c. WvW - the only feature that is world-based

ASEAN players, like me and our guilds, Oceanic players, Korean players, Japanese players, Taiwanese players, Hong Kong players, (TW and HK, if they bought the ArenaNet version) and everyone else--except mainland CHINA--can only play in NA or EU.

There is a CHINA region. It is restricted to accounts created in China and expansions bought in China. It is not handled by ArenaNet. They are not connected to NA and EU regions. If I'm not mistaken, IPs outside of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, can not connect to the CHINA region even if they bought a CHINA version of Guild Wars 2; and those with a mainland China IP address can only connect to ArenaNet servers if they use a VPN -- again if I am not mistaken.

Majority of players from Asia-Pacific (East Asia, ASEAN, Oceanic) are in the NA region. The rest of Asia (Central, South, Western) are playing in the EU region mostly.

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The servers of Guild Wars 2 was transferred to Amazon cloud since 2019, if I remember the date correctly. Since then, the ping you see in the game rarely reflects the actual game experience.

Here is an example:
- I play from the Philippines.
- I use a late 2020 Acer laptop model.
- I connect to the Internet using a 4G Mobile Internet. According to Internet speed rankings, the Philippines rank low than most of our neighbours.
- Without VPN, my ping is 200-250 ms. I don't feel any delays.
- With VPN located in the Philippines, my ping is at 250-350 ms. Rarely experience delays.
- With VPN located near the physical servers of GW2 in the US, my ping is at 400 ms. This is when I experience obvious delays.

The Amazon cloud "upgrade" works best without a VPN, or a VPN located in your own country. Again, based on my own experience using a 4G mobile Internet from the Philippines.