What happened to the East coast servers? Why do players from east coast struggle to get USA central servers in scrim games? Since the last Season update east coast server disappeared and I notice this same thing happened in the prior season for like 2 or 3 weeks and then it came back. Having a game with decent latency makes a world of a difference especially on hitscan or frame dependent hero’s. I also have been experiencing a very frustrating bug where when I set up a custom game for scrims, DESPITE setting my lobby settings to PREFERRED DATA CENTER: USA CENTRAL. The lobby game will not be able to give me my preferred data center 19 out of 20 times. I will receive an error upon starting the game (preferred data center unavailable) the only way to get the server is to keep restarting up to possibly 20 times to get the right one. that’s frustrating for everyone and especially east coast players. WHEN BOTH TEAMS ARE FROM EAST COAST we are forced to play on WEST COAST or waste tons of time re rolling the server every game. IF there’s something i’m missing I apologize but East coast players got really screwed this entire season thus far when it comes to server and latency issues. ever since the new patch I get complete pause lags from time to time as well.
We keep asking this question and keep getting ignored, can you imagine the backlash they would have if the west coast servers went down? Gue has been gone and I believe one of the ORD servers as well so now all of east coast and central are routed into one location. I literally can only play junkrat, mei or hanzo. Anything else is impossible on a competitive level. And with GM mmr I can’t just play for fun as the game either puts me in sweat lobbies or against a stack. I played almost 450 games last season, I’ve played 5 since we lost the DC server. Game is unplayable.
Loved the gue4 server (east coast server located in Washington DC) getting 20~29 ms, now when i play in Chicago server (ord1) i get around 60~79 ms which is very noticable. I’ve heard from people from this community at the start of season 4 that this is usual pattern and gue4 will come back after few days/weeks, yet i haven’t seen any changes after a month of season 4. Please bring back gue4, i’ve been spoiled with good latency now i can’t even enjoy the game with this much delay from 20~29 ms to 70’s ms.
Still nothing, game still plays like dogwater because of it.
Why won’t blizzard address this glaring issue. Do they understand that the east coast is the mostly densely populated region in the country?
Any updates on this Blizzard?
None. Game tried to host my peeps on west coast numerous times tonight. All of us on different ISP with best-in-class HW and ISP. We left the LAS1 trash, because west coast aka woke coast is just trash and no1 gud actually plays there + 200ms makes it unfun af.
Waiting for 20 mins timer so we can actually game and compete on our 1/2 the continent.
Punished for leaving a casual game in the lobby before it starts because it’s hosting you at 200ms when ORD1 should be a thing 100% of the time.
Looks like ded + cost savings to me. Time to fire the director and free up some funds for eastcoast hosting.