Quote Originally Posted by Aronys View Post
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.