A new difficulty level: after Extreme... it is Unreal!

[ForteNightshade]

I didn't have much issue with it either.

I really think a lot of the difficulty had to do with people not understanding how cast bars worked.

There were also pretty significant ping issues if I recall. That, plus certain jobs were downright terrible back then. Dragoon, in particular, was a mess.

[Ririta]

There were also pretty significant ping issues if I recall. That, plus certain jobs were downright terrible back then. Dragoon, in particular, was a mess.

We had 300ms built in lag plus whatever we have connecting to their old cheap Montreal servers.

The built in issue was fixed in 2.1, but we still had to deal with the Montreal servers.

[LalaRu]

There were also pretty significant ping issues if I recall. That, plus certain jobs were downright terrible back then. Dragoon, in particular, was a mess.

You've pretty nailed the issue.

At the time, the only datacenters were NA and JP. As playing from EU, the little bit of added ping was enough to me to eat each and every landslide. As soon as the EU datacenter was created, and I moved there, did cleared the fight at first try.