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European players and the Lag Monster
Topic Started: Apr 18 2011, 04:14 PM (504 Views)
Dustwalker
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Some of us European players have been suffering with a lot of lag. I know people who have been hammered by lag since the move from the Europe based servers to the US ones. Does anyone know if Turbine has any plans to setup non-US servers. And if not, what the best existing server for low lag when playing from outside the US.
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Apr 18 2011, 04:14 PM
Some of us European players have been suffering with a lot of lag. I know people who have been hammered by lag since the move from the Europe based servers to the US ones. Does anyone know if Turbine has any plans to setup non-US servers. And if not, what the best existing server for low lag when playing from outside the US.
I would expect lag...always. You probably will never get below 400 ping and I don't imagine that changing. Turbine is looking to cut out the EU side of a game that isn't getting any stronger in numbers.

With Turbine you can count on two things. Games and hell. No particular order and mix/match randomly.


Edit: Before I receive backlash, this is true in any MMO. As long as there is the internet, online games will have technical issues.
Edited by thegreatunknown, Apr 18 2011, 09:24 PM.
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Dustwalker,

While I can understand your frustration, speaking from my own experience playing DDO from Japan for the first year (2006), I never experienced any significant distance/international related lag.

Not saying that this is not the case here, just throwing it out as food for thought since there are many different reasons/causes for lag.
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While I can understand your frustration, speaking from my own experience playing DDO from Japan for the first year (2006), I never experienced any significant distance/international related lag.


For once I am not the person with the problems (About 110ms connection speed here). However I have friends who are based in the UK (140-180ms), Belgium (210+), Netherlands (200+) and Germany (250+) who are losing interest in DDO since the switch from DDO Europe.

I understand that other issues can be a factor, but given that these people can play many other similar games on European servers at much better response times, its hard to see how Turbine plan to hold onto its European customers.
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Interesting. They have invested a fair but in ending their codemasters contract and in putting together german and french localization so I would expect they would continue along that line in setting up something to help with bandwidth issues coming across.

Perhaps not new servers right off... but likely some kind of tech deal to help connection. Hard to say though. Laggy games are such to play, of that there is no doubt.
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