Sorry SE, but endgame won't work if you don't fix something.

[Wangstrong]

Don't know whose idea it was to place 90% of the game's difficulty on AoE avoidance when the game doesn't provide an acceptable connectivity service. I mean, it's kind of uncanny. This game has probably the highest emphasis on urgent AoE dodging out of any MMORPG in the history of the genre, and it also has the worst connectivity service of any since the EQ/DAoC days. You need to either provide the infrastructure required to play your game or you need to design your game to accomodate the sub-standard infrastructure that you provide. You can't go in opposing directions on those two points. It's a self-evident disaster.

Anyway, this isn't going to just get fixed all of a sudden. They can't uproot their servers and contract new datacenters overnight. I'm not even dissatisfied that they haven't fixed the problem -- it's not something they can just do in a timely manner. It's a matter of poor planning, inconsideration towards their non-Japanese customers, and just a general lack of professionalism regarding their service. To release an MMOPG without regional servers located in their actual regions, in 2013, is simply unacceptable. There's no sense complaining about the lack of a solution, nobody would be able to just fix something like this at the drop of a bucket. Complain about the awful decisionmaking that leads to this problem (and so many others; this game is absolutely riddled with things that are unacceptable in a modern triple-A title.)