EU Datacenter. Any news coming in Paris Live Letter XXI?

[Yshnal]

I think that it's fine if non EU people are happy with how they can play the game, but I don't think that it's unreasonable that EU people ask for their EU servers to be based in the EU instead of across the pond.

You can play it fine and/or are happy about it, alright, I'm glad for you. But don't try to diminish the issues that other people are expecting with something that even Square seems to acknowledge, or either they wouldn't even have considered moving them, which they have. The only question is when will it happen.

[Riardon]

I hope they will give feedback on the EU datacenter soon. It's been a long time since they mentioned it. Since they didn't mention it the last months I doubt it will launch alongside with the expansion. Probably later on.

[ruskie]

Having servers in the EU might actually help out some others from outside the USA and EU. Got a friend from south africa - let's just say dodging anything time sensitive is near impossible - he managed t5s dbs a few times on a good day - most anything else... not happening.

[Gardes]

I think that it's fine if non EU people are happy with how they can play the game, but I don't think that it's unreasonable that EU people ask for their EU servers to be based in the EU instead of across the pond.

You can play it fine and/or are happy about it, alright, I'm glad for you. But don't try to diminish the issues that other people are expecting with something that even Square seems to acknowledge, or either they wouldn't even have considered moving them, which they have. The only question is when will it happen.

I'm not trying to diminish your issues. I'm just pointing out that having your server be closer to you might not be a guaranteed 'fix' to your lag issues. I'm in asia, playing in the Montreal data center with american players (for the most part) for coil and I've had one or two members who are in america had it worse than me, connection stability wise. Then again, people in EU crying foul over moved data centers still not fixing their connection issues doesn't really affect me in anyway.

[Keoeson]

What's the typical expected latency from EU to montreal anyway? I'm playing from Indonesia atm, have 300+ latency, still dodging titan ex slides and plumes like a boss. If it's below 300 and people are still having trouble, I think there's a possibility that after the server move, they'd still have 'lag' troubles stemming from crappy quality over just pure latency speeds. Short distance, bumpy road, etc.

The jump over the ocean adds about 80ms, so e.g. I can play with around 110-120ms latency. The rest comes from cheap providers which don't provide enough overseas bandwidth, so packets have to take weird routes or are dropped frequently. Servers within Europe should help most of those people as that traffic is cheaper, so even their providers can afford it.

[Yshnal]

I'm not trying to diminish your issues. I'm just pointing out that having your server be closer to you might not be a guaranteed 'fix' to your lag issues. I'm in asia, playing in the Montreal data center with american players (for the most part) for coil and I've had one or two members who are in america had it worse than me, connection stability wise. Then again, people in EU crying foul over moved data centers still not fixing their connection issues doesn't really affect me in anyway.

I don't have issues, personally, but I know plenty of people that will benefit from it. And I'm well aware that it won't fix everyone's issues either, but it will help alleviate them That's the whole point, that something can be done to greatly improve it for many people, and it should be done. Not to mention that it can also be a good start to improve it for our american pals if they don't have to worry about the EU servers anymore (but not much hope for oceania, I'm afraid...).

[Turin]

You guys aren't the only ones that get lag playing on the West Coast in the US is equally as bad because the servers are in Montreal Canada.

It's ANYWHERE connecting to the servers. It's the level3 hop. I live in Washington, DC and can not play this game without using a tunneler. And I have had 75/75 FIOS in two separate locations experiencing the same issue on the east coast. I'm not sure SE realizes how many customers they are probably losing to this lag.

[Turin]

Once we get the EU servers relocated to the EU, there's always the possibility that the NA server could be relocated to a more suitable location for you guys.

edit: probably unlikely, but it is a possibility

Playing on an EU server would probably be better than playing on the NA server, honestly.

[Huniken]

Yeah I'm in the middle east, connecting to NA server and massive lags, getting killed many times because of it. If the EU data server opens up I'm moving there for sure, this will make it MUCH better for me. @140-200 ping for an MMORPG isn't bad as compared to an FPS game like battlefield.

[Peachy]

On the title screen when selecting a data center, at the bottom the "Chaos" data center says recommended for residents of Europe. If this isnt the EU data center then why is it recommended? did they do something to it to optimize for EU connections?