Consolidated Post: APAC/Oceanic Server Concerns

Ah, my post was a sarcastic response to how that person implied Australians where the minority on this server merge...

Another American... who mainly plays on the NA servers... wanting to move his one and only lvl 50 there....

My apologies then

Proof?, Evidence? or IMO just wild speculation because what you are sayin seems very VERY unlikely

I see those numbers regularly on dalborra and I play on dalborra, and its better anecdotal evidence then crap you have come with.

Damn, everyone is unsubbing. I just cant imagine pvping with that big a disadvantage. I guess Neverwinter looks alright.


Oh, and dont feed the trolls.

i aint no god darn yank, im an AUSSIE mate
and yeah its my only lvl50, im slight addicted to making alts

dont know why yous are all sooking bout the ping, i ping around 170 and are able to play fine
though i dont pvp though

and theres heaps of people to play with all day/night long

Having played on a US server since launch, the latency increase from APAC to NA is one big concern. One of the biggest issues that has come about since the migration of everyone to super sized servers has been latency. The latency is a massive issue. Now granted, I am used to about 200ms ping times but I can understand perfectly that having never played the game with anything less than 162ms I can say, that it is playable, even in PVP and Operations. I have to be better at my management of rotations than everyone else, and utilise the queing mechanism to help offset the latency.

But I do see massive server side latency where commands are missed or don't go through, unsure where it is happening to be exact, but adding more people to a server where there are issues with latency will only exacerbate the problem further.

Is there any real solution for this. Well is the nature of this kind of game. Client side must tell server what is happening, server agrees, replies to the client, client plays the animation. Server also sends anyone within a range (if that is how they do it) that this has been updated for this user. One person performing this one task may have to go to a lot of people to show what needs to be shown.

I have pondering on this solution for a while and the only real solution would be moving the servers into neutral territory so everyone has the same latency across the board. Then any spikes aren't increased because of physical location.

What he's saying is likely valid, given people will sign on for organised events. You can't honestly think there's enough content to engross people for extended periods.

Go and look at the original release schedule of content, and you'll notice that stuff we're only getting on live servers next month, was originally slated for June last year. Some of that hasn't even made it's way through the pipeline. Had we got even 33% of what was originally scheduled in a timely fashion, this game would have been in fantastic shape about now, in all regions.

Budgetary and planning mismanagement are the real mistakes here, and we're getting punished for it instead of developers and executives formally apologising and reaching out to the wider public to reboot this game (and not just in the APAC region). Costs too much money to do that they say, because our risk projections are dismal, they say.

What it takes is people with a clue about what they're doing holistically, prepared to dig themselves out of a hole in a timely fashion. They answered failure with failure, and saw more failure. No surprises there.

QUICK QUESTION FOR EVERYONE
WHO WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT EA IN THE FUTURE WITH NEW GAMES??
Personally I will never buy another EA game if this goes ahead... They have ruined their brand in this country...
I propose someone set up another Petition or Survey to see just how many people will support EA in their future games... I'm guess not many who have had this experience
POST NO (you won't support) or YES (you will support)