Why Is It even called EU when It's based in Canada?

[PoiPoiKuroi]

And why do most games have Oceanic servers that are still located in NA?
We Australians have been copping 300+ ping for years......and if we ever say anything we get told to suck it up or don't play.
Why the heck should Europe be any different?
And if you aren't hitting 300+ ping then you really have no issue.
Personally mine is anywhere from 300-900ms at any given time. And I can still play just fine.

I can tell you a major point regarding just that, population.
Australia: ~22M
North America: ~350M
Europe: ~740M

So not having a server located in the middle of this side of the planet is just ridiculous.
As for aussies, having a optical sea fiber laid on the bottom of the sea between japan, australia other and "nearby" contries would help. I dont know how much infrastructure there is already though.

[Lithera]

Cost has a lot to do with it. All 25 of JPs worlds are in one datacenter. That's efficient and cost effective. They get the same thing from the NA datacenter which they went out of their way to put in Montreal rather than Squeenix HQ in California (they bought Eidos) so they were as close to Europe as possible. If they had set up a European datacenter then they would have had to purchase ANOTHER facility and man it and given the current split that would be a datacenter with 7 active worlds...that would probably require almost the same manpower to run as the current 27 world NA datacenter. They obviously decided the investment just wouldn't be worth it simply for the time zone convenience. (Ping issues from Europe to NA should be minimal on a decent ISP unless running content alongside an NA player)

[ShuyinTakahara]

Cost has a lot to do with it. All 25 of JPs worlds are in one datacenter. That's efficient and cost effective. They get the same thing from the NA datacenter which they went out of their way to put in Montreal rather than Squeenix HQ in California (they bought Eidos) so they were as close to Europe as possible. If they had set up a European datacenter then they would have had to purchase ANOTHER facility and man it and given the current split that would be a datacenter with 7 active worlds...that would probably require almost the same manpower to run as the current 27 world NA datacenter. They obviously decided the investment just wouldn't be worth it simply for the time zone convenience. (Ping issues from Europe to NA should be minimal on a decent ISP unless running content alongside an NA player)

I have a 100meg fibre optic connection but the games ping, Lagg and frame rates are complete dog poop at the moment. In turn has made the game unplayable for me.

[Micha_lol]

the ping is fine ... what sucks is that the client and server arent really in sync ... thats why you get hit with all those stupid aoe shits even if u outside those cicles. its a pain in the ass on alot of bosses

[Seikon]

They said it many many times before that the EU servers are not based in EU. They are recommended for EU players so that they can play together and have the same time zone for events. That is all. And it is mixed because of the obvious character creation limitations atm. There are JP servers now that are designated EN servers.

[Helli]

the ping is fine ... what sucks is that the client and server arent really in sync ... thats why you get hit with all those stupid aoe shits even if u outside those cicles. its a pain in the ass on alot of bosses

Actually if you look in the Accepted bugs forum you will see that the AOE issues are accepted as a bug.

[Peppita]

I live in Canada with a decent connection, and I still can end up getting 150 ms, I live on the other side of the country mind you.

[Micha_lol]

Actually if you look in the Accepted bugs forum you will see that the AOE issues are accepted as a bug.

yeah thats good ... should be top priority for them