Opening and maintaining a new server would be a lot of effort, and will require lot of resource, so I understand why there are no plan to do it.
However, just one thing I ask: please stop to call the other server "EU server", because is not. Is RU server, and the fact that is physically located in France does not make it more European.
First you say it is not EU (EUROPE) server because it is majority Russian community. So you say it is RU server.
Even though from standpoint of rest of the world Russia is part of Europe as much as you may or may not wish it so.
Specifically trying to delineate Russia as separate from "Europe"
What constitutes as more or less "european"? Simply a matter of perspective and definition...
Server locations are named after the general geographic area they are supposed to serve for the purposes of identifying what kind of ping you would tolerate... Which would make the EU server
the EU server.
Interaction with other players is essential part of the game, even with enemies.
For this reason I don't consider a server which has a primary language different than English as an "EU server".
Here is a sort of Babel, in every game you can find people chatting in many different languages, that's why is so important to have a common language to use for the important things. Not so easy to do when the primary language of the server is not even one of the 24 official languages of EU.
Said that, I must clarify that I'm not complaining because the other server is in Russian, or because the lack of a real EU server. I simply disagree with the definition of "EU server". That's all.
Thank you for your effort on this NA server, it looks much better than the official one, so I'll continue to play here.
...at least until there will be a real EU server
But THEN you insinuate that EU means "European Union" when you talk about the official languages of the EU (European Union). So now you make clear that what you REALLY meant by EU earlier was European Union...
So it's obvious you're just being exclusionary of Russia as a member of Europe (geography)...
Yet...
Just as NA means North America referring to a general geographic area, EU here MUST mean Europe.
Server labelling in this way is generally done simply in the basis of letting you choose what kind of ping you'd like to stomach, as I said earlier....
Hence though you keep calling it "RU" server and saying it is a "fake"... well
it is the EU server... Even if the websites and links say "ru.archerage.to" and so on... the fact is they admins have tried to make it very accessible; ru.archeage.to even has English version where someone writes updates and information in English which seems to be your preferred
lingua franca for a "proper EU server", rather than Russian.
But as is said, there is an English community on the EU server
Maybe you could help it GROW if everyone who actually wanted to play EU in Eng actually organised a mass move or sign ups... You can make of the server what you want it to be... And then perhaps even the
lingua franca can change to English...
Nothing is stopping that dynamic from flipping it's head except players themselves.
Sure it's an obstacle at first, but, having seen the zerg capability of players in AA, I'm sure it's entirely possible to do the same with regards to simply moving/joining over there.
xD
However, I don't disagree with the sentiment to be had that there is vicious cycle of not there being a sizeable enough English community to make it worth playing in EU server so everyone comes play NA, and then that keeps repeating...
Among other downsides about EU/RU (whatever you want to call it) server is that it doesn't have some of the nice changes that we have here; like how Seeds that were going to be Vocation Badge Shop exclusive are avaliable to purchase with Silver in NA server.
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But wanting a different "proper EU" server is the same as asking for a NEW (FRESH START???!!!
) server to be opened, for which a discussion has already be held on
at great length elsewhere on this forum. And has emphatically been declined.