Guild Wars 2: Host your own PVP server

By Robert Purchese Published 30 August, 2011

ArenaNet condones it.

MMO sizzler Guild Wars 2 will apparently let gamers create and host their own PVP servers with their own sets of rules.

Lead game designer Eric Flannum and game designer Colin Johanson spilled the beans to website MMORPG at PAX 2011.

Player-hosted multiplayer servers are common within the PC shooter genre, but few MMOs have opened their carefully controlled worlds to fans.

How progress on player servers will transfer back to the official ArenaNet and NCsoft servers remains to be seen - if it transfers back at all. Perhaps player-hosted servers will serve only as training grounds for guilds to experiment on.

Guild Wars 2 has no release date, no beta date. It will, however, be playable on the Eurogamer Expo 2011 show floor this September at London's massive Earl's Court arena.

Tickets for Thursday, 22nd September; Friday, 23rd September; and Sunday, 25th September are still available. Saturday, 24th September is now sold out.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (6) Latest comment 9 months ago

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  • wayn3h #1 9 months ago

    And another reason this will almost def be a day one for me... These guys seem to be ticking all the right boxes for me.

  • Daeltaja #2 9 months ago

    Oh god that is amazing. Now this is how you push the genre forward!

  • WinterSnowblind #3 9 months ago

    Nice to see at least one company not just rolling out another bog standard MMO. Really excited for this, it's done away with everything I typically hate about the genre.

  • Totza #4 9 months ago

    woah.. sounds great

  • clownst0pper #5 9 months ago

    Please ignore this article it isn't how it works at all!

    Players create a server in game with rules they choose that are taken from a pre determined list. The servers are not hosted externally from the game or independently. It's like a lobby system akin to LoL...

    Eurogamer sort your journalism!

  • optimusprym8 #6 9 months ago

    To be fair it was a misunderstood statement from the devs that many people made - although most other sites carrying the story have issued an update clarifying this fact.

    Starting to faze out on info about GW2, there's so much of it without any release date, it's starting to get wearing