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[RylaiShendelzare]

Pretty big slap in the face to any East coast players.

Kick in the crotch to any EU players who have been on NA.

And sad situation for any west coasters who are friends with, or raid with either.

I hope the short flight from Japan is worth it.

[Sagittarii]

If it does end up being on the west coast, I don't think it will be that big of a deal for people out east. I'm in Los Angeles, and I was getting 110-120 ping times. It was fine, I didn't notice any latency issues.

[Shougun]

Pretty big slap in the face to any East coast players.

Kick in the crotch to any EU players who have been on NA.

And sad situation for any west coasters who are friends with, or raid with either.

I hope the short flight from Japan is worth it.

I'm going to assume they wouldn't just change sides of NA to slap some people, there must be a total benefit. As there would be no reason to upset the player-base just for laughs, seeing as Yoshi-P made a post on the benefits this new server will allow them I'm going to say some parts we won't feel right away but that they've deemed the reward for the greater population worth.

Although I would add that the original server move was rather pointless (feeling) for many west coast tests I saw, including my own, since it was the same ping quality for the same. "yaaay, an NA server" lol. So this new move may actually lead to something I can feel, besides the points Yoshi-P already listed (that are not just repsonse time). Maybe we're going to take turns enjoying 10MS pings now. Next expansion we switch :P

[Moonlite]

Yoshi-P made a post on the benefits this new server will allow them I'm going to say some parts we won't feel right away but that they've deemed the reward for the greater population worth.

Come on greater good for population? It was probably a 99% company 1% player. Just like the original location of Montreal probably provided them with some sort of corporate benefit. That is fine. People need to stop idoling up the dev team. They are employees and are here to make the company money. It is very clear.