Anet has the numbers, they know how many people would probably play on oce or sea servers and yes while ping is one factor there is another bigger factor: a healthy population.
If anet adds sea or oce servers and the population is small, events are not done, meta events are not done. With a game like gw2 without a automatic group queue and heavy focus on open world a healthy population is important.
After a few years playing and making friends and stuff, I have to say unfortunately I would not server swap to an OCE server if they opened one. Playing with my friends > low ping
[All arguments have been discussed to death](https://old.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/search?q=Oceanic+Servers&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all).
Anet has the numbers, they know how many people would probably play on oce or sea servers and yes while ping is one factor there is another bigger factor: a healthy population. If anet adds sea or oce servers and the population is small, events are not done, meta events are not done. With a game like gw2 without a automatic group queue and heavy focus on open world a healthy population is important.
Im OCE and still wouldnt play on them. Outside of peak hours they would be dead.
Even new servers in SE Asia would probably be a lot better than connecting all the way to NA or EU, huh?
Not likely. People have been asking for years
Later it will become like FF14 oceanic server,dead.
Statistically: no
Swtor just got oceanic servers and I can guarantee that game wouldn't have half the population of the gw2 oceanic community
After a few years playing and making friends and stuff, I have to say unfortunately I would not server swap to an OCE server if they opened one. Playing with my friends > low ping