A European datacenter!

[harrisben]

Living in Sydney, getting hit by AOE most of the time is normal (unless I get lucky).

It's ironic that Riot, makers of League of Legends (a free-to-play game), can open a datacentre in Australia but SquareEnix can't do the same for a subscription-based game.

[ssppiikkeeyy]

there must be more than enough EU players looking this. i myself have this issue and i live in the UK. we need Ragnorak to move closer to us,

[XinMu]

Same here, always get hit by some AOE which seems dodged by me. We need a data center in EU!

[Skarith]

I don't want a European datacenter. I want a European datacentre. If it's gonna be in Europe, it should have the English spelling of the name, not the American one.

I'm half american, leave me alone x)

[Mavlok]

I'd rather have a larger pool of players for grouping than a slightly lower ping, tbh. EU servers are always less populated in every MMO.

[Praesidium]

it's not only the AOE's, on high end gaming u start noticing every skill activation, every moving,

EVERYTHING IS SO LAGGY.


LoL even has 2 different EU datacenters, this is unnaceptable.

[ruskie]

They should open a EU datacentre and transfer the existing EU recommended worlds over to it then add more. I had issues during the story ifrit. Even though I ran out of the AoE kept getting hit even though I was as fast as possible. Random mobs rarely cause me such issue with AoE but yeah if I wait just a few ms to long I'll get hit.

[Sneakaboo]

These delays has nothing to do with having 100 or even 200 ms, yeah it doesn't help but this isn't the main problem.
Try a game like WOW/Tera and play it with 100 ms and you will notice that it is a lot more responsive than ARR.

The main problem is SE making actions server side.
Which will feel like you have a delay, add some lag and you get this.
Yoshi stated that the server checks every 0.3 seconds where you are (which isn't true).

I would welcome a EU data centre but most of all I would welcome it if more stuff would be client side.
I'm pretty sure once that is there you won't notice the 100 ms all that much.

Side note the cast bar/animation and circles aren't programmed properly, it's called latency masking.

It's all these little things that make it feel sluggish, on the beta there was a big topic about it.
Back in SWTOR there was a topic about it.
It's called character responsiveness, often over looked but it's basically about how you experience the connection between you and the characters movement.

These delays make you feel disjointed but well.

What the game shows me isn't accurate so instead of that playing the game for me is learning what is actually going on and ignoring what the game tells me what is going on.
This does kill the fun though.

[Skarith]

I'd rather have a larger pool of players for grouping than a slightly lower ping, tbh. EU servers are always less populated in every MMO.

This is simply not true. Just look at the european servers now; they're BRIMMING with people. Every single one of them are CONSTANTLY full.
I'm even playing on the same server as you man, we definitely don't need more people.

[RolixLV]

I must admit if there is no real EU servers implemented in near future, i won't be subscribing for this game. The issue is very same, i step out of the red skill areas, run like 5 yalms away, and im still hit by them, result is im dead, and the party is bashing me and calling me a noob.