cant play games in NA region anymore
I live in Japan for work related reasons but the friends I play with all live in the US.
as of late every game I play is in the Asia region.
I understand the importance of ping while playing but what is more important to me while playing is being able to communicate with the people I am playing with,
the Asia region games are filled with Japanese, Korean and Chinese people who do not share a language and do not speak my preferred language.
this makes the game INCREDABLY un-fun to play.
is there ANY work around to this
Yup, same here. I am dutch with a decent SR rating.
Queuing at a late time can create times up to 60+ min. Switching to NA always “somewhat” solved this issue for me. Now I just get forced in EUW again. Shame.
By the way, make sure to post in this thread too, nearly everyone in this thread (like me) want this change reverted! and it has a lot of posts, and it would be cool to keep it active so the devs can maybe see that so many people want this changed asap
so normally when played on NA I used to get 90~110 ping, high but not unplayable.
but when I connect to NA though a VPN I get 250~300 ping, as the original post states
I dont know how a VPN works entirely but it seems like “its not meant for that”
it might be the VPN that I use but it seems like it has a hard time with latency.
downloads and uploads doesn’t really get affected as much but trying to play a game though it feels really bad
This makes me super sad that no one is addressing this! The devs cant even give a bullsh1te “i’m sorry you are experiencing …” tag… there is no reason why I shouldnt be able to choose who I want to play with!!
That’s because they have addressed it. It’s not a bug, it’s an intended change. Whether or not it’s a stupid change, that’s not for me to say, I didn’t use the feature, but I can appreciate how it affects people in other parts of the world. See the linked post for details from Blizz.