US-West / US-East Servers?

[Alhanelem]

Phew, thanks! xD

If that's what they want then so be it and I will stick with international servers because I have friends from the UK and others.

Don't "phew thanks" so fast.

Geographical lag most certainly was an issue- it was just harder to notice because of all the server side processing lag. East coast users (assuming the data center is on the west coast, near SE headquarters) will still experience a probably unnoticeable bit of network lag, but it will still be worlds better than connecting to Japan.

Also: All servers are still "international." You can join any server you want. The only difference is their physical location in the real world.

i mean how can you translate the game for those regions and not place a data centre there.

because they don't need to. These countries are not far enough apart for it to matter or be worth it. The severs are by region, not by language. Wherever they locate the data center, you'll probably still have a 100 ping or less. vs like a 400-500 ping to Japan.