MMORPGs moving to 1-10 MS server side polling

[Wobi]

Here is a fun thing to consider, only in more recent years have ISPs jerked around server traffic like they have been doing. Depending on the time of day I play I get a wildly different experience going to the same servers over in Canada. This is the cost for not raising more hell about Net Neutrality, expect things to get worse until Gigabit internet is more ubiquitous and it might balance out a bit. Currently though they have us as well as SE by the balls.

Also polling position that often is absolutely unneeded, 1-10 ms is far faster than any human can react and it just wasting bandwidth/resources.

[TheRogueX]

Also polling position that often is absolutely unneeded, 1-10 ms is far faster than any human can react and it just wasting bandwidth.

Eh, this is just server-side polling. Faster server-side polling means more accurate and better overall response time in the game. A 1-10ms polling interval means positioning will be *extremely* accurate, and that's a good thing.