Talk:Territory
Question: Im from Australia, can i change my territory to Japan or Korea?[edit]
My latency is on average ~350 on the American servers. I find that just a bit annoying with the rubber banding, and significantly more difficult interrupts.Also, is it just me or is this latency universal? and would it make a difference if i did happen to change my territory to japan/ korea?
China[edit]
is china considered a territory or no? i remember gw was offered to china thru the9, but i don't know anything else about it. --VVong|BA 23:31, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
- As I understand it, it was an extended public beta. -- Gordon Ecker 01:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Korea[edit]
Should Korea be listed under former territories? It wasn't closed, just renamed to Asia. -- Gordon Ecker 01:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Accounts[edit]
In fact all of them were stored in US server even before the territory merged. And the so called Euro server (206) is also in US.--TeaCat._. 
04:17, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
- There are three active datacenters: Virginia, USA; Frankfurt, DE; and Seoul, KR. Stephen Clarke-Willson (talk) 18:17, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Territory assignment[edit]
I want to know more about account home/territory; if and how it can be updated, and how it interacts with PvP server selection
- This page says each account has a home territory
- In the 2000s was that determined by place of purchase? Today, is region select one of the steps during account creation?
- Can your account territory be assigned to Asia?
- Are we able to manipulate account territory? Mine defaults to America which is ironically the worst server for me in terms of latency.
- This is significant in PvP because server location is not determined by selecting a district. JPzoomin (talk) 22:00, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
- These are great questions!
- I believe the home territory was chosen based on an encoding in the key.
- Yes, your account can now be assigned to Asia (Korea) since we have a Korean datacenter.
- I see that internally we track the number of home territory changes - but I don't see any way for a player to do it. Does anyone remember if there was a player-facing way to change your home territory?
- Stephen Clarke-Willson (talk) 18:20, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
- I cannot recall there being one. UW/FoW access was linked to favor which was linked to HA which was linked to territories. Justice (talk) 21:00, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
- Looking through old versions of the Territory page, there's mentions of being limited to 4 changes between European and American territories, so I assume at some point there was a way for players to transfer.
- https://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Territory&oldid=189925 from June 25, 2007 is the last revision that mentions this, with https://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Territory&oldid=318500 from August 24, 2007 being the first one to no longer have a limit mentioned.
- Rumpo (talk) 05:43, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
- I cannot recall there being one. UW/FoW access was linked to favor which was linked to HA which was linked to territories. Justice (talk) 21:00, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
You sure that wasn't through support? Justice (talk) 18:35, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
