still no Euro server really in Europe ?

[Antarek]

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[iCareeh]

The fact remains that playing with 240 latency is not an enjoyable experience, and i think the game proved to be good and popular enough to have dedicated european servers, seriously.

[Antarek]

This subject has been submited many times already. So, for those that have missed the info, here is a little explanation. Two factors are involved concerning the in game micro-freezes issue :

1) the 1st factor comes from Free and Orange that are in open conflict for years with Cogent, the North American "transit provider" (fournisseur de transit). That is why Free and Orange users can't watch a Youtube video in good conditions during peak hours in France for exemple. Orange and Free are clamping data transfer from Cogent that use their underwater network that links North America and Europe. So when data from North American locations go thought the Cogent network to rally France at peak hours, Free and Orange limit the speed of the transit...

[Antarek]

To solve this problem, many users use a VPN to modify the route taken by data to avoid the Cogent underwater network. I m personally using a VPN to connect to a german server and to use a route that won't go though the Cogent network. And i have almost no micro freez at all during peak hours in France. When i don't use the VPN, i m having the exact same micro-freez issue than many other players.

2) The 2nd factor is directly linked to the current situation of world servers and instance servers that are overloaded at peak hours. When there is way too much queries sent to those servers, the game is congested and players have micro-freezes every 5-10s. There is nothing to do to avoid this situation on our side but Square-Enix is working on it and is increasing the capacity of world and instance servers.

[Sneakaboo]

If they would have given the EU their own data centre the ***** servers would not be constantly overloaded and we would have a decent ping.
I ping the server for 80 sometimes lower, looks awesome.
But the moment I play my latency is 110 and during peak 210.

Next to that I have the pleasure of dealing with the micro freezes and big lag spikes because the server can't handle the load.

The hops it takes to get to Canada are minimal, before it leaves the EU it's on 14-18.
Than on 80 when it hits.

I honestly find it hard to sub for this game, a bit of latency is fine.
But not with the build in delay and slow server checks.