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

[eschaton]

Tbh I never seen anything like this on a non-dying game. Imho, they should have added a west data-center, and not remove the east one. If a billion dollar company won't do it, who will...

[eschaton]

Because some people are too hardcore about it

Increase ping mean their performace will go down and that mean they are not in the high end 1% player group anymore (you know, those people who yell at you because your dps is 3% lower than standard, or get angry because the dungeon end 5 seconds late than usual)

Thing is, this ping discussion is divided into 2 category:

1. The one who got huge increase from 90s to 300s, this one legit and i feel sorry for them because not just their perfomance will drop by huge margin, its pretty much almost unplayable.

2. The one who only got miniscule increase from 50s to 100s then cry about it because its "unplayable" for them. All i can say is, get used to it or go ahead quit, no one will miss you.

You got old customers, loyals.

People who have been around years before you even registered... people who played perfectly fine over there, together; the people who actually gave you this game (by supporting 1.0 no matter what).

Fast forward a few years, and then someone random like you posts this.

It is a sad world indeed.

[SinisterJoints]

I love how the west coast players immediately try to make fun of people who are legit having issues. The entitlement is real.

I live in michigan and have 0 issues right now. my ping went up about 30 ms but i suffer 0 packet loss compared to when I was going through lvl3.

Before this move, everytime I would browse the internet while playing I would get a 90k, now I can without issue. Its a breath of fresh air but lets face it, no matter where they would have put the servers, people would still have issues and be complaining just like they are now.

[TitaniaZero]

Tbh I never seen anything like this on a non-dying game. Imho, they should have added a west data-center, and not remove the east one. If a billion dollar company won't do it, who will...

Then they would have to determine which ones go to which coast in which group. Primal West Aether East? And then hit the fall out from even that. No one is ever happy.

[dlgc]

Yes, give everyone their own private server in their basement!

I am sympathetic to my fellow players from regions such as EU/SA/Oceania/etc who are getting 250ms+ due to this recent server move. If there is something that I can help, I will gladly do it.

I urge everyone to give the system a few days to settle, before jumping to conclusions.

To NA players who are getting "unsatisfactory" ms values, call your ISP can give them lots of salt.

Especially to the ones claiming 100ms is "unplayable"(extreme hardcore savage raiders notwithstanding), I don't give a flying duck about your "problem", try to "git gud" instead.

Cheers,
D.

[Alien_Gamer]

Here's the thing, going from a 50ms ping to 100ms is unnoticable, going to 150ms may become noticable for a very small percentage of the population with truly excellent reflexes and hand eye coordination. I know 50 to 100 sounds huge because of the number size, so lets put it a different way, its the difference between .05 and .1 seconds; Less than a tenth of a second difference...just think about that for a second, think about how small a time frame we're talking about. All these people saying the game is unplayable at 100ms and that they can tell the difference are complaining over their imagination. I know with certainty that if SE took everyone on these forums and put them in a double blind test to see who could identify how fast a ping was nobody would be able to.

Here's some more numbers that might put things in perspective. Movies run at 24 frames per second usually, 1 frame is around 40 ms. The reason they don't do faster is because the human brain doesn't distinguish the difference between 24 frames per second and 50 frames per second. Even if you drop a frame out here or there, the brain automatically compensates to create a smooth image, unless you drop a lot of frames at once, you'll never know it.

As far as visually recognizing and reacting to aoes and such, going from 50 to 100ms ping is the equivalent of dropping 1 or two frames out of a video.

If you're one of the few that saw your pings go to 300ms+ from 100ms or less, then I feel for you. That can't be fun trying to play that way.

[Khalithar]

The data center change in no way detracted from my personal gameplay experience and I have absolutely no stake in this situation. I don't see why there's a problem.

/sarcasm

[Sida]

If i got it right, most people from the Oceania area got it now better of. And yet their ping dropping from 200+ to 150 range is seen privilege and east coasters raising from 40 too 90+ is end of the world?

[SinisterJoints]

If i got it right, most people from the Oceania area got it now better of. And yet their ping dropping from 200+ to 150 range is seen privilege and east coasters raising from 40 too 90+ is end of the world?

that is basically it in a nutshell lol I'm laughing all the way from the east coast here. This new generation of try hards are trying soo hard that they are leaving all remnants of logic behind lol

[Riardon]

They must have some really good reasons on placing the servers there. Wonder what was the reasoning behind this decision. Economics? Convenience? Some special deal with NTT? Something else? All together? I doubt they chose that place only screw their users.