Physical/regional servers FINALLY confirmed ??! (Y)

[Dragonheart]

Still, EU players will be forced to have 250~320ms latency, even if the netcode is "perfect". And that's not enjoyable in a modern MMO.

There is no way to lower these 250~320ms besides having a server physically located in EU (or NA at the very least).

Yeah I'd like to hear as well. I suppose all MMO editors are stupid to have EU servers. They should hire you instead. Could it be Blizzard, Trion, EA-Bioware, NCSoft, SEGA, and list goes on...

Why all these company spend money to have localized servers if there is a miracle technique that nullify latency effects on end users?

Holy words. But ppl still not understand this... :/

[Duelle]

Holy words. But ppl still not understand this... :/

Unfortunately, some people understand it but don't care. I'm beginning to think that silly "identity" thing is rearing its head again.

I put game performance over anything else, because my friends in Europe are not going to prevent a wipe at a boss fight caused by latency because the environmental mechanic procced and didn't show up on anyone's screen. Diabolos was pretty nasty with this in CoP, and WoW had its own woes with stuff like Heigan the Unclean and Thaddius.

[Jynx]

I put game performance over anything else, because my friends in Europe are not going to prevent a wipe at a boss fight caused by latency because the environmental mechanic procced and didn't show up on anyone's screen.

I imagine they would just not implement twitch based mechanics, how about when a effect hits the screen it doesn't go off right away?

Even with a 3 second delay our worst friends from the EU would still have well over 2 seconds to GTFO of the way, proper servers and designs could put this delay well near half a second as well not a measurement of time that ruins raids.

[Jinko]

I imagine they would just not implement twitch based mechanics, how about when a effect hits the screen it doesn't go off right away?

Even with a 3 second delay our worst friends from the EU would still have well over 2 seconds to GTFO of the way, proper servers and designs could put this delay well near half a second as well not a measurement of time that ruins raids.

Hmm I don't think this would be a very good idea, it would ultimately limit the dev team what they could do with future content as far as boss encounters goes.

People can say what they want about WoW but some of the fights are extremely well done, as Duelle said Hiegen the Unclean and Theduis which are fairly old now are good examples of needing pin sharp reactions and timing, something like that could never work with 300ms latency.