[Data Center USA] Ping increased. Report your changes here.

[Kosmos992k]

it might take a few days, if im right. hopefully not much longer than 2 weeks.

I feel bad now though, i get to play the game without packet loss....how dare i!? O=

I would guess anything up to a couple of weeks as well. Even basic DNS changes can take several days to fully propagate throughout the DNS server tree beyond the major root servers. Routing tables in possibly millions of routing nodes will need to update themselves, it's not something SE can push out, it is something that has to happen on its own.

With regard to ping times though, we've seen reports from players in South America and Europe talking of ping times in the 120-150ms range which is far from poor, and perfectly playable. That demonstrates that the server relocation is not game breaking - as long as the routing between the player and the server is decent.

They are most likely losing all subscriptions from South America. It got unplayable for us.

No they won't, and no it didn't. People need to stop running around screaming like the sky is falling and understand that the new location itself does not cause egregious ping times, bad routing and poor ISP service does. Better to give it s week or two and complain at your ISP about the bad routing than to quit the game over something that SE cannot ever control.

Well, I am in Edmonton, Canada.

My geographical distance from Montreal is about 2,978km, used to have about 75ms.

My geographical distance from Sacramento is about 1,774km, and now I have about 94ms.

I did a brief test with my BLM just now in the game, and I can see no difference in how I performed.

So, longer geographic distance gave a lower ping time and shorter distance gives a longer ping. I believe that this is a perfect confirmation that it is routing and not geographic location that influences your ping time.