What bothers me the most it's that we don't have a server

I think the OP has a valid point when relating it to the release of GW2. Warhammer was released with oceanic servers and I know a dozen people (myself included) that bought the game just for that fact... too bad the game turned out to be a let-down... but my point is that having localised servers does help with attracting customers within that region.

wow I wish I had 300 ping, here in NZ mine hovers around 500.

Ever tried infusing or protting with 500 ping? Not cool at all. I would most definately buy GW2 if it had oceanic servers.

why do you even bother speculating about a game that's no where near completed yet?

as for the current situation with gw servers... qq less and build a bridge. us aussies bitched about it forever and a day and that got us no where. lag and pings are so much worse currently, then they ever have been, but suck it up or go find another game to play becuase i dont see them adding expensive servers in other countries for the good of the player base. have some common sense and logic.

without having South America to exploit America would have die long ago :P

Hey while we are suggesting new servers, I'd love something in Australia/New Zealand so I didn't have to play on 600 ping. It pretty much kicks me out from being a decent mesmer or monk : (.

Orly? What part of the country are you in to get that sort of horrible latency? Mine averages 280-300, dropping to 250 on a good day. I go and ranger in RA on a 250 day. I can sometimes even dshot 3/4 on reflex on those days if I've had enough Coke or something.

Oceanic servers would be brilliant, don't get me wrong, but it's somewhat doubtful that they'll be considered feasible enough to be implemented. Plus you then have the issue of PvP, where you'll frequently be playing on international servers again, making your ping pretty dynamic. This happens even now between American/Euro servers - though to our out of the way corner of the world this is currently a non-issue.

EDIT: Another Aussie/Kiwi who gets such a high ping? You people need a better ISP.

I was considering that too haha!
But I realised that gw was still the superior game even with inferior pings.
However I really hope that the fact that Anet produced a superior product provides sufficient justification for me, having experienced the occasionally frustrating latency of the game, to be purchasing their sequel.

Seriously It's annoying enough now when you press a button and have to wait half a second before the casting animation starts, and you stop moving when u see bull's strike activate, only to fall on your arse and mystically transport to where u were a second ago.

Just Imagine This Latency With a Z axis and 'Jumping'/climbing etc....
You skill fully navigate a set of platforms with the old school grace seen in games like Mario 64, reach the chest in anticipation of your reward, only to be magically rubberbanded to your death in the bottomless abyss....

That would suck, and I ain't paying for it!

Im in Auckland, but not in the city centre all the decent ISPs require you to be closer to the city centre. Most people I know are stuck with 300-500 ping like me though.

edit: my dl speeds are fine, usually in the 100-200 kb/s area.

I live in America but get about that same ping. Not saying that's good but yeah, I really wish I could have 100ms all the time (can't I dream!?) so I could interrupt. I usually miss every interrupt.

Anything I can do to improve my ping time?

(funny how we're complaining over MS too lol, but it does make a difference...)

Next time try not to mix your exaggerated comparisons with your slightly less exaggerated, but just as wrong opinions. It's hard to tell where you are embellishing and where you are just being dumb. You came across as someone who had no idea what South America and their various people are like. Along with all the stereotypes that you must believe, they have huge cities with universities and people who can read and they even have access to the internet. Amazing? I know it's crazy.

Now as far as cost goes, setting up servers would be an investment. NC Soft already did the hard part and that was to create a fun and fairly stable platform to game on. Setting up servers there should be relatively cheap compared to the initial investment. South america could yield a lot of profits if they were to invest and market GW and the expansions there. If im not mistaken, Diablo2 had/has servers down there. That must have been profitable for blizzard to do and it cost a lot more to do it back then.

What bother me the most it's that we don't know how to grammar...
Anyway all joking aside, your saying all these ping numbers ...i can only dream of such low numbers, my internet is awful where i live (england), not the country as a whole but my area and other things that guarantee connection speed

Dude, I get >300ms most of the time. I dont know where Anet are keeping their servers, but those seem to suck. I live in Germany and have played (UT) on servers stationed in California, alabama and similar, and ping never was higher than 180-200ms. And thats pretty much on the other side of the damn world... So where are those sucky Anet servers at really???

And no, its not my connection either, how come I ping 12ms-24ms to most western europe servers? 10mbit connection here as well...

Its another thing really, blizzard does use Battle.net for pretty much every game they have. Not just one

Uh, I live in Canada and I get 200-300 ping all the time. I had <100 ping on WoW, also North American server.

Anet's servers are just bad, regardless of where you live.

Needs some servers in the middle east as well then.

Mine averages about 160 or less sometimes I might hit 200 on a bad day.

Lol, because the difference between 200 average vs 250 average is THAT huge

No, its because if you're getting high ping then there's a good chance of lag. She got lag (or at least that's what I understood) I didn't and the ping difference wasn't high, though I will go down to 100ping when servers aren't full during fests or the 7pm-10pm spree.

I prefer the GW one server model.

No bigger fail than having characters limited to just one server, and things like population caps and login queuing.

And later the embarrasing server merges due to population decine

Where are you at? I'm in Christchurch and bah my pings are terrible in PvP. My ISP isn't actually too bad, I just always thought that it was the price to pay for playing Guild Wars in a far away country.

Hamilton. My pings are pretty bad, but that's comparing it against Euro/US players. As mentioned earlier I normally average slightly less than 300. It fluctuates a bit though, from 240-380ish.