Quote Originally Posted by Marco_ View Post
That again wouldn't work well: any informed person would pick "global". Heck, wouldn't you suggest your friends to restart on "global" in that case instead of you starting on the "Europe" server that is worse/behind?

I think right now people that get sent to the Europe server against their will use tricks like google/apple accounts with fake addresses outside Europe and/or VPN to get to the global server where they want to be.

BTW, right now the jerks even geo-redirect their global facebook page to the Europe facebook page if you are in Europe.
I play both and can 100% say Europe server is the FAR better choice for new players. The reasons being:

1) It's far far cheaper. T10 is 3 billion points or so for raid. My guild is independent, non-strip and self-filled and we have got T10 last 4 raids and T25 last 2 wars.
2) The raid milestones are way better for less strong players (extra energy and gems).
3) F2P can actually compete if they put the effort in. There is no DFA. All epics that are fuseable on global are fuseable on EU. Fusion stones are hard to come by yes, but if you do your arena and your epic boss, you can get them. Very active players can do T10 on free energy on raid once their accounts are up to speed.
4) Chests are behind the epics you can actually fuse, and in many cases prohibitively expensive. As a GM it's nice to have your players less tempted by the allure of the chest.
5) It is actually worth doing heroic mode as the armours are competitive and it is achievable. For FREE. With 3 heroic+ armours you can beat anyone in the game if you line up right.

Quite a lot of global players in Europe who started EU accounts, solely play the game on EU now, because it is WAY more fun and less about the money. It's like playing the game back when I started several years ago - fun and not all about the money.