Quote Originally Posted by WarbossGrim View Post
So cut Europe and Oceania out of it, because they could just as easily put them in Europe and Japan datacenters respectively.
Except the Aust-Japan link is frequently cut (that same damn subsea cable seems to get chopped fairly regularly) at which point you're routed via the US to get to Japan, making it even slower.

Secondly, the majority of players on the JP servers DON'T speak English and would rather not socialise with them because of the language difficulty.

Thirdly, those servers where Australians and English speakers are concentrated are already full, so moving there is not easy.

Still, as the US servers are already about as far from us as can be, anywhere will be an improvement.