Quote Originally Posted by Roris View Post
I'd blame them for putting all the servers in one place instead of investing on proper datacenters placed on key locations in the US/Europe. The excuse back then on release was that they didn't have the proper resources for it which was understandable to some point, now that the game has 2.5 million adventurer- I mean accounts created, they should start looking into improving and expanding their infrastructure with those resources and profits they've made.
They made a decision based on cost, which I won't defend them for. I'm going through a DC move right now at work caused by a similar decision making process and it sucks.

That's not what was being argued by the OP and others (Blizzard is having faster server side polling, why aren't we?), the change mentioned at the start won't fix what many here think is the root cause of the lag. I'm not white-knighting SE. The single EU/NA data center is a stupid idea and it should have been distributed across 3-4 DCs. Faster server side polling would be nice to have, but it wouldn't fix most of the issue.