Quote Originally Posted by Delsus View Post
The thing is it will cost a lot of money to relocate a datercenter to Europe, just one datacenter is 7 worlds (each world is made up of more than one server), plus instance servers for the datacenter (again there will be more than one to increase capacity). They would all need to be shipped over, tests from around region would need to be done in order to place the datercenters in the right place, and then they would have to buy/rent a site for the datercenter (their EU offices probably won't be big enough for it).

You will be looking at tens of thousands to move one datacenter, and if they won't see any return on the investment (ie, cover the costs with more subscriptions, or prevent people leaving by moving) then it will never happen, SE are a company, here to make money, they aren't in business to increase overheads if they will never see a return on them.
You say that like Europe has no players and that nobody would invest in servers there, but almost every other MMO out there (available in the west) has servers in Europe at launch.... Why would it be such massive task for SE? Even though they have had 6 months of earnings from the game.

I know it wouldn't be perfect for everyone, but in the end it would be for the best. I have 100ms from Europe and won't see any difference, but there are countless other people that have much worse ping than me... If it was located in Europe I'm sure most people would have around 100 or less, which in return would make content easier even for the likes of me (easier to find groups that can dodge)

I don't expect it to happen, but it should.