I would like to make a few points clear to the devs regarding the new ME servers:
We are thankful for them, we really are. Playing under 25-40 ms feels GREAT. It is so much better than 140-160 ms on EU servers. However…
There is just not enough players to sustain a healthy matchmaking pool. Often times queues skyrocket to 25 mins for a game of QP on DPS. On EU, those usually take us 5-8 minutes of queue time to get in a game.
It also doesn’t help that a lot of times players are taken from the EU region to play on our servers, just to fill the voids. It’s unfair for them.
I suggest having the option to manually choose which server I’m playing on. Whether the option is in-game or on the Battle.net launcher. I can choose ME servers during peak times, but I would happily play 140 ms on EU if it doesn’t take me 30 mins to find one QP game.
It just creates a bad experience if the ME server is fused with EU servers.
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I have been suffering and complaining about the same issue to add a tab to switch the region without the need to add a ladder or top 500 for middle east. Games take too long to find and the quality of the matches suck big time.
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May I ask what provider do you use? I’m STC and i still have 100 ms :c
Etisalat, UAE.
Don’t know about the Saudi side.
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My provider is Zain and as far as i know that STC will always log you to europe.
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do you have any idea on who should I contact for this? like do I contact blizzard or STC?
I don’t know. It’s probably STC. I don’t know your case though, because I see many Saudis playing on ME server.
You can’t do anything about it contacting STC but let me tell you are better playing in europe than ME from what i am seeing
Get a VPN is the only way a lot of competitive people uses this services to play Gears or OW on NA servers.
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I have a VPN, but it just makes the lag worse. If I’m connected directly to EU I get around 140 ms, but with a VPN it gets up to 160-170.
Not to mention that VPNs are not stable, so I can expect the chances of me DCing to increase significantly. I also can’t disconnect the VPN without disconnecting from the server.
Couldnt agree more, i wish they had never added a Middle East server, plats and golds and silvers in one game ! and you always see the same players so if one person is a smurf you see them way more often than the EU server, and we dont even get to choose EU servers anymore, ive tried playing on NA and the ping is too high ! please let us choose between EU and ME servers, otherwise i have to use VPNs, cause the ME servers are making me want to quit Overwatch