VPN etc allowed?

[Vianne]

You cannot compare a FPS game to a MMO you just cannot. How your data is routed to SE server is not there concern at all, its up to your ISP to make sure your data is handled correctly. If you are complaining about the costs associated with gaming then maybe you need to rethink your finances and or stop gaming all together.

But you can compare MMOs that have latency issues and the ones that don't. You can compare MMOs where said latency issues don't have much of an impact on gameplay vs the ones where they do. You can compare MMOs run by companies that care about providing a smooth experience to their costumers through regional servers with the ones run by companies that don't. You can compare MMOs where their PR teams will actively attempt to gather information from their players to address an issue instead of ignoring them. You can compare communities that will try to help each other to overcome issues instead of insisting that such issues don't exist or the player is at fault no matter how much evidence there is of the contrary.

Routing is not an ISP issue, as most of it happens out the ISP's scope, and that's besides that fact that is something that goes both ways. The fact that such tunneling services make a difference without a change of ISP should hint you that much. Guess who would be in a much better position than the player is to diagnose and provide the technical details of the issues to the parties involved in such routing. Guess which MMO companies have done so in the past and which one apparently prefers to ignore the issue?