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[Duelle]

everyone complaining it's not central seem to have forgotten about their Hawaiian and Alaskan brethren.

The ideal thing would really have been east coast and west coast servers.

[Hasrat]

The ideal thing would really have been east coast and west coast servers.

The ideal thing would be to have 50 different data centers on each continent.

But the real world has limitations.

[Saito_S]

The ideal thing would be to have 50 different data centers on each continent.

But the real world has limitations.

It does. But as much as I have been giving east coasters crap for making SUCH a big dramatic deal out of their distance from the data center, which now matches the distance from the DC that myself and many other west coast players have been playing with for 3+ years...

Duelle is right. Regardless of how overdramatic people are or aren't being about the shoe basically being on the other foot, having one east DC and one west DC would make everyone pretty happy. And they wouldn't be the first company running an online game to do so, had they done so. Yes, it's more expense, obviously, but it's not an unreasonable expense. Given their size, is there any doubt that simply doubling the cost of this server move (to set up two new servers, instead of one) is something that SE COULD afford? I'd be dubious of any claim they can't. They just choose not to. Which I think is a shame; I think it would have been a good investment for the game. But eh, SE obviously disagrees, and they have a proven track record of being stingy with how much money and resources they are willing to give to Yoshi and his team.