Too Much Tedium, Not Enough Fun

[jars]

3) Don't play the game.

if your game play experience revolves solely around getting an atma then probably yeah

[Chiramu]

1) don't do atma

You don't have to get the atma weapon, you can run leviathan ex or second coils for your weapon. Of course if you're another casual player then you may be stuck doing atma because atm it's hard getting a competent group for levi ex (I don't want to lie and join a farming party when I haven't completed it :/).

I do think the game got smaller because of the limitations imposed on levi ex and thornmarch, it would be nice if they released them into actual df sooner rather than later.

[Jinko]

That's because it's not needed.

Of course its needed, whether you think its worth while doesn't come into it, I guess all those other MMOs have been doing it wrong for the last 10 years.

Anyone suffering connection issues are most likely suffering an issues between You > Server > You which could be anything between your personal equipment and any of the hops in between.

Exactly, you do realise there about 10 times more server to server jumps from the UK to Canada than UK to an EU country, not to forget that Europe has better internet infrastructure than America.

(An EU data centre MIGHT fix this, but there's a high change it won't)

Might is better than won't.

That being said a lot of the issues people have with being hit by AoEs is due to SE's poor netcode and positional checks, which is probably never going to get addressed, its just exacerbate by having servers thousands of miles away.

Another issue is that servers are extremely expensive to set-up and run. Adding in an EU one would take months and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to procure, set-up and test.

Last time I pinged the EU server it wasn't owned by SE (IWeb Technologies), so chances are they are renting them, so there is very little cost involved outside making sure they run smoothly.

[SavageWolf]

I love the hell out of this game.

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