Why not Dallas? Why one extreme to another?

[thorkellthetall]

People in the forums don't seem to understand that you still have to play with people affected by the bad ping. The situation could have improved for everyone involved. Instead of normalizing ping for the NA region they just inverted the players affected by the distance. Montreal was a terrible location and this is also a terrible location. I'd really like to know why they decided on this.

[Risvertasashi]

- Random person on Reddit.

doesn't look right.

[Hasrat]

The situation could have improved for everyone involved.

Does that include Australia? South America? Pacific islands?

[cakesphere]

Does that include Australia? South America? Pacific islands?

Dallas would have actually been an improvement for South America as it's further, well, South.

[DeeColon]

Does that include Australia? South America? Pacific islands?

"North American" Data Center, AU, SA, and Pacific Islands are not a part of Continental North America

[Risvertasashi]

Its still pretty close & accurate info about using NTT's servers.

Then again, it might be on afterall. From winMTR:

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|    ae-28.r00.lsanca07.us.bb.gin.ntt.net -    0 |   25 |   25 |   31 |   32 |   35 |   31 |
|     ae-2.r23.lsanca07.us.bb.gin.ntt.net -    0 |   25 |   25 |   33 |   37 |   40 |   35 |
|    ae-12.r22.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net -    0 |   25 |   25 |   29 |   33 |   38 |   33 |
|    ae-40.r02.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net -    0 |   25 |   25 |   35 |   37 |   40 |   35 |
|     ae-2.r00.scrmca02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net -    0 |   25 |   25 |   33 |   36 |   40 |   33 |
|xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net -    0 |   25 |   25 |   36 |   37 |   40 |   36 |
|                           204.2.229.234 -    5 |   21 |   20 |    0 |   36 |   47 |   38 |
|                            204.2.229.83 -    5 |   21 |   20 |    0 |   36 |   43 |   34 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|

Not sure why the registration says Colorado, but a router on there says sacramento, CA. I don't know, then

[Azell]

"North American" Data Center, AU, SA, and Pacific Islands are not a part of Continental North America

Sorry our money isnt good as yours, but since we don't have a DC for each continent and they allow us to play the game paying the sub just like any other, they should've thought more carefully. A central position would've made everyone happy, literally.

[NessaWyvern]

Well, considering that all of NZ internet is sent to LA first, (Which has always meant that for me, NA always had slightly less ping then JP) I am pretty pleased with the new server location. I went from 260ping without pingzapper to 180 ping without pingzapper (With pingzapper, I get 20 less ping now).

I remember when my recommended servers were EU ones when the game started, and then when they moved the EU servers I now had 460 ping to 'em and the game was unplayable, and I had to move.

California has got the highest population in the U.S.A, and the servers are in a better position for those in the pacific, and Australia (population of NZ and Aus combined is around 28mil), while also not being too far away from the other highly populated US states, I'd say it's in a good spot.

[Rock-Fist-Lee]

I am in Australia and been playing since the ARR betas, to be honest, prob shoulda put it in Dallas because from Australia there isn't that much difference between Sacramento and Dallas. Any who wondering if this would improve those AOE Titan EX I could never escape from lol ( lets all stack them together for yipey aye ayes

Either way, the game has always ses my connection is Excellent so I'm not fussed about it. Coulda compensate the three days with 300 scripture tho

[Tint]

California has got the highest population in the U.S.A, and the servers are in a better position for those in the pacific, and Australia (population of NZ and Aus combined is around 28mil), while also not being too far away from the other highly populated US states, I'd say it's in a good spot.