I know that. Good luck explaining it to OP, though.
WoW isn’t a modern game. It is ancient by video game standards.
Yes, because there are so many people playing WoW in multiple regions.
Again, this is an eighteen year old game. The legal and technical limitations now aren’t likely to be the same today as they were when this game was released. And I somehow doubt you have any more insight than I do as to what those are now, or were then.
Okay… all the more reason to stay up-to-date and follow the new legal and technical regulations that allow cross-region gameplay ?
It was technically old even when it was released due to no one expecting the game to get as big as it did and using outdated stuff to make it. This is why we can’t have nice things like armor dyes 
I try to factor this in now whenever I think about why things are the way they are with limitations in this game.
So… completely rewrite the game to accommodate a relative handful of players.
That certainly wouldn’t have disastrous consequences or turn into an unforeseen catastrophe.
The bottom line is it simply isn’t worth the expense or effort based on the minimal benefit it would provide.
WoW is a old game built to be locked into regional servers, not global servers.
Newer MMOs solve that problem.
It’s 2 different games, it’s like buying 2 copies of a game.
Wouldn’t that make it like buying one copy each of 2 different games?
for the same reasons that you cant transfer from na to eu or anything along those lines.
EU has super insane data privacy laws ect.
you know damn well that ActiBlizz wants those service fees.
Ive been asking if I could move my EU toons over here for years now and have been wanting to move some of my toons from here over there. They always say it cannot be done.
Ion talked about this in one of the Dragonflight interviews. They know that people would like to play cross region. They haven’t done it because of technical difficulties. It’s because of the way the servers were set up. They can’t simply flip a switch.
Wow is on a dot com setup. Most of the EU is not and cannot even access that.
I don’t believe you, show me on a map.
Oh, rewriting isn’t necessary. PTR connects players from all regions just fine, and has been doing it since forever afaik.
This is just a matter of connecting servers. Nothing else.
Still doesn’t stop Among Us, The Sims, GTA, Fortnite and a long etc. from letting their players connect to the region they most like.
And all those games were created with global play in mind. WoW was not.
Live servers are not the PTR server.
If that was the case, it would have been done ages ago.
A WoW subscription applies to ONE license. You can have up to 8 WoW licenses on your Bnet account. Each one will need a subscription. While you can have an EU license and an NA license on your Bnet account, you are going to have to pay a sub for each of them.
Further, WoW EU and WoW NA are two totally different games. You have to buy a separate copy in each region and buy a separate subscription in each region.
They are not related at all.
That is how the game was built and set up in 2004 and it remains that way today. There are both technical (Database) reasons and legal reasons they did it that way.
They do realize people would like the ability to move chars, but that is not something they offer. Most other Blizzard games are also Region specific, even if they have “global play”. For example in Diablo 3 you can play in any region you want for one game purchase, but you have to start over on the new Region database.
Again though, what you want is to have two different WoW licenses covered by one Subscription which is not how it works, regardless of Region.
It’s a duplicate license, they’d have to store your account data twice. They have to track your account achievements twice and data for up to 50 characters twice. If you get new mounts, toys, etc, on that account, it is a new list with new dates. 50 more characters have their own progress on every achievement and quest and zone segment to explore.
From a technical perspective, which is what you’re arguing here, yes it is.
Absolutely not. As long as there are players spending two subs, they’re not going to enable this.
I play on both . I don’t have lag issue’s
My God, these forums should be a case study by an anthropologist. Not only these forums are filled with toxicity butt licking devs, but also some serious lack of either intelligence or looking outside your crappy game developer teams.
Phasmophobia, a game which at release had 2 developers, allowed you to use your account and simply choose the region where we want to play. That’s how we play other games with out cousin, we can’t play WoW together unless we pay another sub to EU, something that is super easy to take care of.