Why are server regions still a thing? If you play pretty much any other game you can play with anyone in the world. But for wow you have EU, US, Asia etc seperate from each other. What if we want to play with americans? We cant. Surely this can be resolved with todays technolocy and blizzards budget.
Because of laws in diffrent continents. You want play on chinese version of WoW?
They should at least offer region account transfer services.
What laws does the chinese have around wow? And how does that affect EU-US?
I font know any self-respecting MMO where EU, US, ASIA and others play together. We dont have global internet without delays to make that happen.
I actually do. I like some of their graphic changes.
Yet other games do? One could argue the latency is more important in an FPS game than an mmo, yet they usually allow cross region play.
Also theres talk about russians lagging for europeans, and Iāve seen the same about US with australians. but thats not enough of a problem?
The AH and other systems canāt cope.
I can keep it short why not: lag.
No thanks. I donāt want high latency for having my server moved some other continent and i also donāt want to play with people lagging all over.
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Iād like to at least have the choice to just pick Americas and play with my US friends, just like I can in Overwatch 
Having choice is always a good thing! As long as no one else would be forced for lag/low latency because of the system ofc. How is it working in Overwatch, how is latency? Do you know where the server is where you connect to when you choose to join your friend in US?
The ping to the US for me is 90-120 depending whether Iām in the UK or in my home country, so Iād guess the servers are easy coast.
Sounds like east coast indeed. I sometimes log into swtor US servers (they are on east coast) on testing purposes and my latency to there goes somewhere between 130-190 ms on normal connections ( i am not in UK but in Finland). That is way too much to properly play the game for me. Not just having everything delayed but also making me nauseous. Uk is in good position to roam on US servers i think. 
I manage with 120 ping when Iām in western/central Europe just fine tbh, but I cant be bothered also keeping up another character on the US servers.
ā¦ of physics are still a thing.
Nope, sorry but that would be a bad idea.
Iām all for merging forums though, having separate forums for EU and NA is what really doesnāt make sense.
Ever heard of Ping ?
In any game, if you switch your region, youāre gonna be laggy as heck and will not be able to play as well as you could in your own region.
Although, maybe thatās what you mean by that, but I would like to see a Realm change that can go to another region. Iām sad for the people that need to start all over cause they moved to another continent
I might be rude and break every COC rule there is, but honestly I would rather not be put on same region with US. Their āgetting and being offendedā meta culture represented in media (meaning: I do not know if it is true or just clickbaits from media) would make it rather intimidating.
Least with split regions their ātrendsā come here with few years delay.
Forums would make 0 difference if merged. They moderate it same rule set anyway, but its in-game interactions I rather not have. Yet. have had enough weird experience in some other games. There are cultural differences I do not understand and prefer things with status quo.
However the choice between regions is a viable option and that i see why it shouldnāt be the case.
Because of lag, connecting from eu to US gives me over 100msā¦ connecting to eu severs 20msā¦