Late night/early morning there’s a big chance of being thrown into ME servers when you q from EU. Those servers have higher latency (160ms) than NA east (100ms).
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this also makes it so if I Q with my friends from EU we can’t choose the server? we often play peak times on NA when EU is dead now we can’t do so as every Q so far has been EU? What a joke of a change
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Im from EU playing with NA friends. To me ping does not matter. But to my NA friends it does. So far we only got EU games. And the thing is: I wanna be able TO CHOOSE where to play. I dont want to play EU ranked, to me personally its hell and i prefer NA. Since I can live with the ping (support player) its okay, i got used to it, i dont main heroes that need low ping. Wont be playing ranked till i can be 100% sure what region i will get
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Not all of them. Many actually increase your latency. I know mine does.
Ok, so what’s wrong with the EU servers? I’m confused.
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You dont give ping dependant players another choice to be honest. Ive seen EU players blocking Middle eastern servers because for some reason they got middle eastern games at peak times and got 300 ping. This is NOT okay!
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Imagine playing with anything higher than 40 to 60 ping… why is this a good thing, again?
Do you know what 100 ping is like? That makes a huge difference. So baad
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Not just EU servers, but anyone of any region can be put into a server more distant than their closest one in order to accommodate matchmaking during low-peak times or at extreme ranks like low-Bronze or Grand Master. In Europe, the Bahrain datacenter (a.k.a. Middle East is relatively low-populated, so it often pulls players who normally connect to Versailles or Amsterdam in order to fulfill a match.
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As of this moment, you can still choose your region on PC… I was just looking at it. But I know eventually it will go away there too as I recall.
Though I’m not sure how that works with progress on different realms yet. For example, D3. I have different progress on the EU realm vs the Americas one.
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Well that blows. No wonder.
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Wait so cross play is in Competitive now?
At 300 ping there is a connection issue going on at that point.
I am not one to express opinion to what is “okay”, I am only here to establish the facts as it stands.
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this is really unfortunate.
There are many occasions where I have wanted to play on the America’s server because voice communication is better there
Furthermore there are times when I play with my friend who lives in Asia and Americas is sort of the middle ground for us.
Wyoming I know you have some influence with the developers
Is it at all possible that you could get in touch with them and make them reconsider this?
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HOW is that okay? WHAT GM player wants a 200 ping player on their team just for a little shorter queue time??? Do you realize how BAD high ping can be?
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playable latency
“you think you do, but you don’t”
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No it is not, but the general Global Play update that came with Crossplay no longer seperates three of the four “regions” in BattleNet. Meaning if you group with friends from another region, specifying on the BattleNet App Launcher which region to connect to no longer determines which datacenter you actually connect to.
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It’s not really a big deal unless it’s higher than 150ms. There are tons of t500 EU players who q NA because the comms are better.
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Thank the heavens. I was about to quit the game. Still not ideal but crossplay is a totally different beast
yea but doesnt work with any hero. I do that too, cause I main heroes that arent ping dependant. Also its alot about getting used to it. If you get a NA player in a EU lobby playing on high ping for the first time he will most likely throw. Amazing, isnt it?
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this is such a terrible design choice for so many reason, this has to be reverted or some type of joke yea?
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If it was up to me, I would not have the matchmaker work to be so accomdiating to players and be more focused on which datacenter they best connect to. Again, I am just here to establish the known facts about the matchmaker, and agree with you that such matches don’t feel too good. However, waiting hours to get to play a game of Overwatch at all doesn’t feel that good either.
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