[Data Center USA] Ping increased. Report your changes here.

[Duelle]

For YEARS, EU players had no choice but to pick NA-located servers and there was absolutely no indication that they'd ever relocate the "EU" servers until not too long before it happened either.

That is irrelevant outside of trying to insert whatabout-ism into this discussion.

So you're being kind of a dick to people that (god forbid) want to stay in the friendships that they have created and nurtured for those years.

Actions performed wholly by choice. I've raided with people from NZ, AU and the EU while playing on a West Coast WoW server (with better response times than what I've seen since this move), so I know the adjustments they had to go through to play with my guild at the time. That being said, they were fully aware of what they were getting into, and were willing to bite the bullet despite the geographic disadvantage because they wanted to hang out with us.

That is entirely different, as despite being closer to the server, we have server response times doubling after the relocation. Definitely not the same as a person in AU or EU choosing to play on an NA server. So going "well, I'm much further from the server than you are and sucked it up all of this time, so you should too" is also a dick thing to say, since the context and source of the problem are very different. Save that for a person from NA complaining about pings to EU or JP servers (a scenario where the situation would be remotely comparable).

Note: To stay on topic, I've noticed some things being a bit...sluggish since the servers went back up.