Why not Dallas? Why one extreme to another?

[Domeric]

God bless you.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

What a bonehead decision.

[Failia]

I can see my house from there!

In all seriousness, I'm not really all that concerned. I'm literally on the other side of the continent from the servers now (Nova Scotia) and my latency is 150 currently.

[Antonio_Xul]

As of 2015, California population is approximately 39.14 million, US population is about 321.4 million. As a Californian, I would still think it should've been done in the Nebraska region to be right in the middle.

[ManuelBravo]

People in the forums don't seem to understand that you still have to play with people affected by the bad ping. The situation could have improved for everyone involved. Instead of normalizing ping for the NA region they just inverted the players affected by the distance. Montreal was a terrible location and this is also a terrible location. I'd really like to know why they decided on this.

Well lets analyze, we are talking about a difference in service dependability. I've lived and travel to Texas. It's a nice place to visit, but technology wise and dependability Cali beats it hands down. It's only logical to place it somewhere were it's dependable and services are more reliable net wise. Also they might be doing so to force players to change servers and balance it out in the long run from what I can see.

[ManuelBravo]

As of 2015, California population is approximately 39.14 million, US population is about 321.4 million. As a Californian, I would still think it should've been done in the Nebraska region to be right in the middle.

So you want to place it out in Nebraska were services aren't as reliable. hmm yeah just a question for you have you ever been to Nebraska and tried playing their with their internet service providers?

[Thayos]

Living in Oregon, my ping is now 27ms. I have no clue what it was before, but it seriously didn't matter. I played the game just fine. Lots of people are overreacting to this, but that's just evidence that SB needs to get here!

[Antonio_Xul]

So you want to place it out in Nebraska were services aren't as reliable. hmm yeah just a question for you have you ever been to Nebraska and tried playing their with their internet service providers?

I have been to Nebraska, but I wasn't there long to use their ISP. I'm not a techie, but people are only referring to physical location, Nebraska is right in the middle. U.S. & Canada would get a good distance from there.

[ManuelBravo]

No I haven't. I'm not a techie, but people are only referring to physical location, Nebraska is right in the middle. U.S. & Canada would get a good distance from there.

Yeah people seem to lack the understanding of why it was placed in CA area... and see it as geographical issue. Common mistake, there is more to it to ensure it's reliable :/ sad yet true. Could try using a VPN service for a quick fix.

[Belhi]

If I can play the game from Australia on a JP server you guys should be able to handle playing on a server located on the same continent. There was no way that no one was going to be at least slightly negatively effected by this move and frankly there are a lot of factors that would effect performance beyond physical distance. They specifically chose a location with reliable and well developed internet infrastructure according to the live letter.

As I said, if my FC can raid Savage Alex with AU ping then you guys in NA should be fine. Frankly give it a month or two and you will probably be used to the change and barely notice it anymore.