EU-server?

[Evangela]

Is the EU market really that big? I heard a lot of games didn't sell well in EU compared to NA and everytime I go on eBay I'll see tons of EU games with very low price and way easier to find a copy of niche games. maybe European people don't play video game much?

[Asiaine]

Is the EU market really that big? I heard a lot of games didn't sell well in EU compared to NA and everytime I go on eBay I'll see tons of EU games with very low price and way easier to find a copy of niche games. maybe European people don't play video game much?

O.o
There are 'European Targeted' games, and 'European Only' games. But most people in Europe (if not all) who do play games, play the NA games.

Not the other way around tho.

[MusouMugen]

Is the EU market really that big? I heard a lot of games didn't sell well in EU compared to NA and everytime I go on eBay I'll see tons of EU games with very low price and way easier to find a copy of niche games. maybe European people don't play video game much?

Well, according to an old-ish Nielsen study, EU was bigger market than US for games in 2008. That's just EU. If we count Russia and other non-EU contries Europe has over 700 million people. So datacenters in Europe would be used for a lot of people+other countries that have EU closer than Canada. Also, I wonder how many ppl already left because of the horrendous lag, thus making the decision to not have EU datacenter because of lack of players (if it was because of that) somewhat a self fulfilling prophecy.

[amnie]

Is the EU market really that big? I heard a lot of games didn't sell well in EU compared to NA and everytime I go on eBay I'll see tons of EU games with very low price and way easier to find a copy of niche games. maybe European people don't play video game much?

I usually buy US imports because even when I buy them straight from Amazon Germany they are cheaper than the actually German version. bad argument is bad.
(iirc England is the 3rd biggest gaming market world-wide. and Europe as a whole is definitely 'worthy' for gaming companies)

that being said the gaming market as a whole doesn't really say much about it, either. take Russia for exampe. huge gaming market. little interest in Final Fantasy.

EU has 'enough' player, but a datacentre should .not. be the focus right now because the distance to the servers is .not. the reason for the huge delay. I play pretty much every MMO I play on NA servers and this is the only game with these issues.