Too Much Tedium, Not Enough Fun

[Shioban]

No EU data center is pretty ridiculous. They're wealthy enough, it's been a long time since 1.0 released...

That's because it's not needed.

Currently situated in Europe with 90-120ms where latency hasn't been an issue after playing both in Ireland and East London.
The only times the connection is an issue is when it's on my end (particularly when East London suffers a high traffic increase Evenings/Weekends).

A friend in Australia is capable of playing the game without issue, so distance isn't the concern, unfortunatley it's the hops in between and a persons ability to compensate for the delay that is causing issues.

(For example a player in Germany in an area with a low quality connection simply isn't able to compensate for the delay, an EU datacentre would only slightly improve this)

Anyone suffering connection issues are most likely suffering an issues between You > Server > You which could be anything between your personal equipment and any of the hops in between.
(An EU data centre MIGHT fix this, but there's a high change it won't)

Another issue is that servers are extremely expensive to set-up and run. Adding in an EU one would take months and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to procure, set-up and test.

[Jinko]

That's because it's not needed.

Of course its needed, whether you think its worth while doesn't come into it, I guess all those other MMOs have been doing it wrong for the last 10 years.

Anyone suffering connection issues are most likely suffering an issues between You > Server > You which could be anything between your personal equipment and any of the hops in between.

Exactly, you do realise there about 10 times more server to server jumps from the UK to Canada than UK to an EU country, not to forget that Europe has better internet infrastructure than America.

(An EU data centre MIGHT fix this, but there's a high change it won't)

Might is better than won't.

That being said a lot of the issues people have with being hit by AoEs is due to SE's poor netcode and positional checks, which is probably never going to get addressed, its just exacerbate by having servers thousands of miles away.

Another issue is that servers are extremely expensive to set-up and run. Adding in an EU one would take months and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to procure, set-up and test.

Last time I pinged the EU server it wasn't owned by SE (IWeb Technologies), so chances are they are renting them, so there is very little cost involved outside making sure they run smoothly.