Why did they get rid of US EAST server

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Uh, what game in 2024 makes you pay for servers directly? I haven’t played one.

That was a thing for FPS games in the early 2000s, but not today.

Blizzard will never allow private servers. W3C operates in a gray area because it’s a mod, but Blizzard would never release their server software to let someone run a private bnet server. It’s their proprietary tech and they need to retain full control. That’s simply not a realistic expectation.

And again, I must emphasize, I absolutely think it would be a good thing for them to establish more server locations. I’m simply being bluntly honest in saying it’s not going to happen, because the cost/benefit probably just doesn’t add up for the bean counters.

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Oh man so many! Are you living under a rock? The most recent is probably Palworld which exploded in popularity and many players paid for private servers.

A quick Google will show you just how many, but to save you the trouble there’s Minecraft, Ark, Valheim, Rust, Terraria, Arma, should I keep going?!

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Name one then. Palworld does not require you to buy a private server. The fact that people may have done that doesn’t mean it’s a requirement. And so far, that’s just one game. Not “So many!”

Most (All? I don’t know all of them) of t he games you listed are not 2024 games. Terraria and Minecraft are very old games at this point, and you don’t HAVE to buy private servers to play them. Others, like Arma, fall in the same category as the FPS games I mention below, but again, Arma is not a 2024 game either.

The trend in these times is live service games, for which private servers are basically not an option. I’m not talking about illicit private servers here, I’m talking about actual, legitimate servers you have to pay money for. I’ll sit here and wait while you name a game that has that which came out this year. You yourself specified 2024.

In the early days of FPS games, the servers were entirely ran by third parties, rather than the people who made the game. That is NOT common at all today. Overwatch for example has custom game servers, but they are NOT run by the players, they are run on Blizzard’s own servers, even though there is a “server” browser.

Aside from this nonsense… I really don’t know why you’re fighting with me. I’ve repeated many times I don’t have a problem with better pings. I just don’t agree that it’s a top priority issue right now in the face of the bajillion bugs and other systemic issues in the game. I am able to enjoy the game right now with the pings as they are. If they improve (by whatever means), I will certainly be happy, but ping is not angering me right now- which again, for like the tenth time, is what I’ve been trying to communicate to you- that there is a reason there hasn’t been a big scene made about this til now.

You’ve established that you think perfect ping is the most important thing to you. I’ve established that technical problems across the game are the most important issue to me. I don’t really think there’s much else left to say. You claim that everyone benefits from ping but not everyone benefits from fixing the game itself, but regardless of what mode you play, there are bugs and other problems. Very few people haven’t encountered at least some of them, so your logic “everyone benefits from this but not everyone benefits from that” is flawed. Everyone benefits from a more functionally stable and correctly playing game too.

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I never said it should be a requirement. I’m suggesting it as an optional service, if Blizzard doesn’t like free money that’s on them. If server costs are an issue why did they switch away from P2P to begin with?

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That’s the thing though. With the mass wave of refunds after launch, they most likely lost a lot of money on this game, They made a half-hearted attempt to fix their reputation by pushing more updates, but since those updates were done by different staff who didn’t know the internals of the game beforehand, all they could really do was tweak numbers and push already-made updates from the original team.

There is no financial motivation for them to make these kinds of improvements because they are never going to make their money back. Even if it makes current players happy, it’s not going to bring back enough other people to make it worth it.

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Then shut it all down and let us move on.

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That’s not for you to decide though, now is it?

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The missing US East server is a massive problem. It totally ruined the enjoyment for far too many people. For many custom games they live or die on having at least decent ping, and the current 100-110+ is a complete disaster that leaves a bad taste in the mouth of anyone who experiences it. I know many people who quit over it. I refuse to believe it’s THAT expensive to run and have them, and it continues to be a massive disappointment from Blizzard.

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it’s a bit over the top to say “it ruined the enjoyment.” Do I have a higher ping? Yes. Is the game ruined? No. it is a slight inconvenience at worst. And lots of other people have it worse given that there are so few server locations to begin with.

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You’re actually cooked.

There is absolutely no excuse for not having an east coast server, and its certainty not sitting well with players. You’re minimalizing a rather big issue with your own reality of what people want or care about.

Please bring back the U.S east servers.

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I didn’t say there was. I only accused you of being overly dramatic. Which you are. More servers is more better, but you don’t need to make something out to be more than it is.

Really though, if you’re so adamant about it, you need to come up with a revenue stream that might enable them to financially justify adding servers for a game that never made much in the first place.

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I would pay ~200/yr for a private server hosted in D.C.

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a private server huh? whats the point in a server just for yourself?

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I mean for myself and the 10 other sheep taggers. Ofc an official server would be fine too, but more expensive I would imagine.

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A server in a datacenter costs the same regardless of who uses it.

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That is so factually wrong it hurts to read. Please do not comment on tech you know nothing about.

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I’m sorry you feel that way but claiming something is “so factually wrong it hurts to read” and proving it are two different things. I know plenty about it. Unless you run a datacenter business and or make datacenter service purchasing decisions, you’re not in a position to tell me that.

Sure I’m over-generalizing, it depends on what company you go with, and what your needs are. But do you really think someone like you will get a better deal than a big corporation? The best case scenario is it costing the same. If there is any difference, it’s the individual that will be ponying up more than the big corporations- just like everything else. Big companies get better deals on things because they can offer more business. It costs a small business more to accept credit cards on average, for example, compared to big companies with hundreds or thousands of locations.

Linode is a popular option for end-users and they generally charge the same prices to anyone for their cloud computing services (which are also easy enough to use that anyone with even a little bit of knowledge can use it). So sure, I’m overgeneralizing and I won’t deny that, but ultimately, there’s no way you’d be able to run your own servers for war3 for less than Blizzard could.

Of course, this whole conversation is entirely pointless to begin with, because you will never get your wish, nor will we ever get more servers.

And the next time you think someone is wrong about something, prove it, instead of making some kind of snide 6 year old comment.

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How can you possibly think it costs the same amount of money to host a server for 20 CCU as it would be for 20,000 CCU?

The datacenter costs are based on usage and scale based on CCU. At least that’s how any service that’s worth paying for does it.

I added you on bnet was going to explain there, but you seem to prefer trolling every forum topic where we talk about US East server.

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The cost per user will be the same or worse for you than for someone like Blizzard. Yes, you will pay a smaller amount in total, but it’s less cost efficient.

And if you think I’m going to let you pester me in DMs, you’re sorely mistaken. Regardless, you not liking my posts doesn’t make me a troll. This forum is the place to discuss such things. Your rude comments made here give me no confidence that a conversation with you elsewhere would go well at all.

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This is a forum to discuss what we’d like to see added and fixed in the game.

You coming into each topic and just saying “never gonna happen”. Doesn’t help anyone.