EU dedicated datacenter

[LalaRu]

Is there any plan to make a dedicated datacenter in EU region?
Afaik EU and NA are all together in NA region, am I wrong?

[Adrian74]

If you are right... Then it would be awesome if the servers would be located in Europe for some europeans. I for example live a little away from Europe, some islands close to Africa, (But clearly closer than to USA) and yet I don't feel so much latency problems as there should be... Sometimes people and even mobs teleport, but sometimes means 100 minutes of 100 hours playing.

Does it mean servers are powerful enough? Or game is developed for anticipate a little to the latency problems?... I have played some games where if you are European and you try to play USA server it's just impossible, a madness or nightmare.

Thanks for the info, and hope you get an answer from Devs so if that's right they could think about place EU servers in EU... (I think it's... Just for logic?)

[Assirra]

European servers are in Montreal/Cannada and while its not that bad, in some fights it can really screw you over cause of latency. (hai Titan)
Honestly i don't see this happening since because almost everyone simply accepted it. If there was a huge public outcry when this first was known it might have changed but now? Too late imo.

[KraggyKor]

European servers are in Montreal/Cannada and while its not that bad, in some fights it can really screw you over cause of latency. (hai Titan)

As long as Yoshi continues his openly stated belief that what people blame on lag in Titan HM (as it was the time he said this) is actually due to them having their camera too close to their character then SE don't think there's a problem to be fixed.

[Nekodar]

For it to make sense to move the EU marked worlds to an EU specific datacenter, it has to be cost-effective as well.
To make it cost-effective, you need time to plan and prepare.

I believe I saw in some JP thread a discussion about something that would require a datacenter expansion, and the time estimate mentioned then for that work to be done was 6 months, and that's just for an expansion (since it seems their datacenter is already cramped).

They could be planning to move the EU worlds eventually, but I really wouldn't expect them to announce it until earliest some weeks before an actual move.

An actual move would need to be announced in a timeframe like that, and possibly allow for free transfer from EU world to NA world for people that want to stay on NA datacenter, as well as the other way around...

Realistically, it would also coincide with a major patch... If it's going to happen any time soon, I'd expect it to be done for 2.3.

[Phe]

For it to make sense to move the EU marked worlds to an EU specific datacenter, it has to be cost-effective as well.

how can it be not cost-effective after EU players have already paid roughly 30 million dollars for the game?

[ReplicaX]

Also realize it can be something out of Yoshi's control. The Company might not be willing to spend the money.

[LalaRu]

If I have to keep on a Canadian server, I'd like the game tuned to better understand that 200/300ms ping is not an exception but the average rate for a lot of players.

All endgame encounters are tuned, on some stages, on our ability to not being caught on a number of AoE of any kind. In the past the problem it was so evident that full groups of pro players were mercilessy wiped on encounters they know very well.

[Gardes]

Should at least add 1 europe data center and 1 west usa data center imo. Then offer free transfers when those data centers open.

[Surian]

I'm not going to jump ship and abandon my friends, nor do i want them to leave me. Rather see things stay the way they are.

From my country in europe, i have a 100 ms latency with the server. Having it local isnt going to change or improve much.

Only problems i've ever had with latency is on Mondays doing Titan. All others i can just stroll out of attacks and nothing ever happens.

So really, i feel this would create more problems and rifts than it would solve.