Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

[WarbossGrim]

if the east coast would become the new europe, what does that make current west coast players? lol

West Europe!

More seriously, the point is that if that's a problem for west coast players, then the obvious solution is to move the data center somewhere in the middle, not just flip which coast gets screwed. Then at least east coast and west coast are roughly equal, and the people who live in the middle get an overall ping time reduction. Other games figured out years ago that it's probably in their best interests to try and provide as even an experience to their playerbase as possible rather than heavily slanting to one area geographically.

That's what makes the "we can't tell you anything but that it's somewhere on the north american continent" so infuriating. It just leads to EVERYONE feeling like they're going to get screwed instead of only the people who are actually getting screwed.

[Tastydoorstop]

lol check this link out..
Future Data Center Park in Virginia Beach Virginia to Link to New Transatlantic Cable

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/a...tlantic-cable/

[Savagelf]

i wish we have SE investing in build US base Studio too

[Deceptistar]

Hawaii here. If it's on the east coast it might as well be located in Europe D: it'll be farther than it was when it was in Japan T-T

[WarbossGrim]

It's already essentially on the east coast. Montreal would be on the coast if it were slightly further south.

[Gumbercules]

come on just toss it in Dallas :P

[Pence]

Australian Server(s) when?

Don't ever expect it. The game just doesn't have the player base to support it - even WoW doesn't truely have a large enough player base for an Aussie server. Their AU and NA servers are connected, if the party leader is in NA you will be on a NA server, and vice versa. I'd argue latency is more important here due to how the game works. Seeing NA players dragged into 220ms+ after having played at half of that? Would not go well.

[Aria_Sevenpeaks]

I am from germany and i just ran a test for servers located in LA... The average ping was 210+ while the ping right now to Goblin is ~101. A move to the west coast would double up my ping and would be a reason to quit the game. I just hope they'll offer free transfers to the EU data center when this happens. I would lose my house and all my money but at least i could still play with normal reactions.

At least you have a DC in Europe. Australians have had to live with 200+ pings all along. At my end, at the WESTERN end of Australia, it's almost 400ms to Siren. With Battleping, I can get it down to about ~330 on a good day. Most end-game instances are virtually unplayable with that lag. I only bother to ever unlock them once when they're required, then never play them again because it'll just cause grief to others who have to support me.

[Khalithar]

Middle of the U.S. or west coast please. XD

[Saccharin]

North America = Canada

So funny if it was Mexico!!!