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

I love it how these aussies are complaining about high pings playing on American servers. I could sleep in late and drive to ANETs HQ tomorrow easily and I get pings in the same range as these guys.

We in africa sit with the same problems. Anet should be able to do proper market analysis using GW1 sales per region as a basis for GW2 server placement.

Well then you can consider yourself to be a basket case, cos every time I HA and say, 'Holy jeebus my ping is great today!"
they respond: 'How good is good?'
and i say: 'Its 180 ms woot! oh crap the average has gone back to 250'
and they're like..: 'wtf thats high...i usually never go over 150'

4 years ago I'd get 80 ping
3 years ago I'd get 150 ping
last couple of years 300 ping

I live in the US, I've been across several different internet connections no variance in Anet's ping. I regularly get 30-50 ping on vent and TF2 servers. Even if Anet put a server in your area, you would not notice the difference.

I don't think having a server labeled for your region actually helps you that much.

I lived in North America, but to actually try logging onto the local America regions almost always give me the worse performance in terms of pings and large lags.

On the other hand, if I simply log onto the Far East ones (be it Taiwan or Korea or Japan), I can get 1/3 the ping and much less in lags.

i guess anet shut down some servers over the years to save money. on a popular bonus week-end you can see, how the performance breaks down as much more players log-in simultaneously.

I have absolutely no idea what Anet is doing to their servers, ping for most of us seems to be in 200-range when playing normally. In Europe we still connect to the same TX-based servers as everyone else. Perhaps Anet has a slow load-balancer, or something else that takes performance.

Anyway, they should buy/hire some more servers for use during festivals, i think i can speak for most of us if i say rollerbeetling is notorious for its major lag.
Where they put the servers is not my problem, if they think cooling in Antarctica is better, fine with me. That's the problem of the backbone guys.
Hint to those complaining about slow connections : don't use wireless... it definately hurts performance, and more than a slow provider

Buying more servers = Spending money

Anet/NCSoft spending money... Lol, good joke

I don't think they need more servers. What they may need is better/faster servers and lower latency connections.

We've been through a few 'network maintenance' periods but I don't think Anet has upgraded/replaced their servers on those scheduled maintenances with newer hardware. Hardware today is much more faster than it was 4 years ago when GW launched. High average ping and common lag on events simply mean their servers are not prepared for the load (could be bad programming or simply not enough hardware).

I have not kept any tracks but I don't remember ever reading about more servers or servers being upgraded. Of course, they could add and remove servers without us ever noticing but telling us would be beneficial for them. There's no reason not to tell except when servers are removed instead of added.

Make a petition have it signed by at lease 10k ppl (with e mail name and country you live in) send it to a net.
If that doesnt work ruin spam the hell out of guru forums with we want a serv post.
If that doesnt work organise a sit in in front of nc's offices.
Plenty of way to get yourself heard, doesnt mean they wont ignor you.

To be fair, there are a fair number of South African people who play(ed) GW, and plenty from South America too.

That said, I live in the UK, and when I play in Euro I get latency issues, so I play in US most of the time.

I think that would be your computer. American districts are full of people, Taiwan districts are basically empty. If you experience a performance boost by switching to Taiwan, it's probably because your comp doesn't need to deal with all the other players on your screen.

I also highly doubt that swapping your district to Taiwan actually changes what server you connect to.

Actually, because Arenanet partnered with some half-ass horrible company in China, the server over there sucked (you'd be lucky if you don't disconnect within 20 minutes), plus the fact that most Asians don't really like GW...
This is because they prefer more grind-based games since China, Japan, and South Korea pump nothing but those (originally cloned Diablo 2, then WoW). This is not an argument about which games are better, this is just for argument's sake.
Then again, GW2 looks grind-happy and WoW-like, so maybe... :/?