FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE FIX THIS MASSIVE LAG PROBLEM!

[meriaseii]

The lag occurs for me mostly during primetime only. The lag gradually builds up as the time nears primetime. During the mornings, no lag at all: everything is fine. Afternoon, I start experiencing some random lag spikes. Evenings: it totally sucks. This issue wasn't present for me until 2 weeks ago when I suddenly noticed my ping to server was up to 160 to 210ms all the time; even during the morning. My previous ping was around 55ms to 67ms and I experienced no lag at all even during peak hours. Nothing was changed with my ISP and tracert shows that the higher latency begins once I hit the SE/middleman server. It seems like it's a congestion issue or something since it only happens as the number of users increases. Been waiting for the issue to be resolved every maintenance. Unfortunately, I already subbed for 3 months. Game was still working fine when I subbed. -.-; Hurray for bait and switch.

[Wonderful]

Can only agree to most of the posters here. This is starting to be a real pain.
From the beginning, there wasn't too much problem with lagging but the last week it is more or less unplayable. I have died during normal quests because I got hit of all aoe's that exists even though I think I'm out of it.
And dungeons is completely out of the question. The lag is insane and you have no idea about what is going on until all are dead.
I have played many MMO's during the last 6-7 years and I have never experienced problems like this in any other game.
My computer is a high-end gaming machine and have usually no problems what so ever with my internet connections so don't give me that crap about ISP's and stuff. This is SE's problem and they have to fix it asap.
And as other pointed out, the worst part is that they even don't admit that there is a problem with their own servers.

[unholykrusher]

most likely the lag is occuring During Prime Time hours because thats when everyone is normally getting online. I suggest just turning off any and all useless programs.

[SpringLeaf]

LAaaaaaaaaag

[Tempting]

Would love some kinda official response in the next few umm months? . Been what like 2 months since SE said they were aware of lag in beta, but that all we have ever heard.

All I ask for is something of the lines of:
"We are aware of this issue and are looking to branch out our servers for better maintainability of smooth gameplay"

The fact is....players will NOT stay playing a game that does not run well because so many things in this game have a sudden reaction time to dodge but when you get a 1-2 second delay on enemy casting it makes it pretty hard to dodge.

This isn't even a user requirement barrier or lag from memory leaks. Its all a networking issue. The Devs have done their work as far the game goes, but the SE employees in charge of networking for the game need to get with the picture and get some upgraded servers.

[Ervin]

@Raist: I know of all that, it's just not a viable answer to calm the community, or a justification for poor service, since this is a very very rare issue in MMO gaming. As I said, no matter what game I've played on US based datacenters, I've never had lag issues like these. SE are cheap since they wont open an EU datacenter, which would infact smooth things out alot.

There is a reason why regional datacenters are set up in most every MMO nowdays, give or take the F2P games like STO, NW and so on where there is only one big world server or a few smaller ones in a cluster. There is still no issue with those game, even if they are located across the atlantic. Maybe, just maybe SE should put some preasure on the company being responsible for the servers in the NA region. It was bad at times with WoW to be playing on US servers from sweden, but they fixed those issues way way back and it was only an issue for a short time.

The problems dont occur until we hit the NA region. All we can really do is nag at out ISP who can do nothing about it, or beg for EU based servers (not the scam "EU" servers we have now).

Tell me Raist, why should we pay the same price when we get a sub-optimal service?

[Faelart]

That is all

[Everdark]

bumping thread... cos the lag is god awful

[Arok]

yep started to lag at 6pm again

[Coraliine]

Yeah a fix would be wonderful. I have one of the highest rated internet connections in all of Europe and still get absolutely game breaking lag that makes avoiding everything really ridiculous. I've never had this issue in any game. It's absolutely horrid. You can really see it when you watch yourself on someone else's screen while you play.