Quote Originally Posted by lezard21 View Post
To all the smart folks cracking jokes at blizzard, SE could have easily reallocated some JPN servers to EU and USA since 80% of JPN worlds are not congested whereas every EU and USA world is.
That's not how it works. Generally games this massive are hosted within massive server farms in data centers all over the world. The actual hardware all work together in tandem to host the software and service the customers. EU servers are physically located in the EU, Japan somewhere in Southeast Asia (usually either Japan or South Korea,) Oceania in Australia. You can't just "reallocate" servers from a completely different location to serve an entirely different customer base. You'd have pretty extreme latency issues doing that.