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

[Alyx]

My wife is playing this game on a PS4 Pro with a SSD.

Her healing on AST went from GCD and close to it to laggy enough to die in about any AoE.

Why did you move the servers to a coastal location instead of a central location??

This decision was poorly made. Shut it down and fix it.

[AlexanderThorolund]

How about no.

[Hasrat]

Right away, sire. Reimbursement for failing to consult your opinion will be forthcoming.

[Aronys]

I love how the west coast players immediately try to make fun of people who are legit having issues. The entitlement is real.

[SilkaN]

normies get out

[Mhaeric]

I love how the west coast players immediately try to make fun of people who are legit having issues. The entitlement is real.

No,we're just annoyed/perplexed by all the "my old ping of 30 is now 90 which makes the game unplayable" statements when that's what us west coasters had for years without issue. NA players who are getting pings higher than 150 is most likely due to a less than average ISP and not the location. An decently average connection will net pings of 100ish even from the other coast. Not everyone has access to or can afford a decent connection , though, so I feel for people in that situation. Case in point, when 2.0 first launched, I could only afford the budget low speed package with my isp and I had 175 ping to Montreal from Vancouver. It resulted in me taking a break from the game because I was having a hard time completing end game content. When I upgraded to my provider's standard average connection a couple of years later I got a much better 90 ping.

Some regions, like South America, do appear to have significant increases to already relatively high pings due to out of the way routing, but even that's something that is not entirely out of the realm of expectation. Connecting to an international server is not likely to be speedy regardless of location. There are even some international regions without native server locations that got an increase. I believe some oceanic players are experiencing this for example.

[Sicno]

Some regions, like South America, do appear to have significant increases to already relatively high pings due to out of the way routing, but even that's something that is not entirely out of the realm of expectation.

Yeah, going from around 220 to 375+ is completely in the realm of expectation.

[SinisterJoints]

I love how the west coast players immediately try to make fun of people who are legit having issues. The entitlement is real.

I live in michigan and have 0 issues right now. my ping went up about 30 ms but i suffer 0 packet loss compared to when I was going through lvl3.

Before this move, everytime I would browse the internet while playing I would get a 90k, now I can without issue. Its a breath of fresh air but lets face it, no matter where they would have put the servers, people would still have issues and be complaining just like they are now.

[Kaonis]

I love how the west coast players immediately try to make fun of people who are legit having issues. The entitlement is real.

Even worse is comparing it to Riot's server move some time back. I'm lead to believe there was actual communication with the players about the move and the new location was done centrally as a way to benefit the most people. It was a purely "for the players" sounding decision.

From what people have looked into of SE and NTT's business relationship, this was a purely business decision, with no thought given to the players. Which I think is one of the more telling things here.

[Coratanni]

I love how the west coast players immediately try to make fun of people who are legit having issues. The entitlement is real.

You are acting as if this server move ONLY negatively affected players. Dont be that naive. Entitled indeed.