I been playing this game for almost 10 years. I have ignored playing with 150-200ms, while smaller companies have installed servers closer to my country, on which I can play other games with 5ms.
This makes me think that the capacities to install technological infrastructure are low.
How the hell are there queues on the servers and at the same time at the end of the queue the game is unplayable? Who makes the decisions in predicting the necessary server hardware to support the load?
I would like a little more transparency. Are the requirements so high that it is impossible to ensure a playable game? If the technology doesn’t exist yet, I’m happy to move from Faerlina to a less populated server, but the lack of transparency makes me think it’s just greed, as if in another half year enough people will have stopped playing to continue using the current infrastructure just fine.
You are kind of right. If you’ve been playing for 10 years then you know a new xpac brings a lot of people in, but that falls off shortly after the xpac is launched. Within a month things will probably be back to normal.
Well…ya. They are a business. Depending on the country you’re living in and the population that plays is typically a deciding factor on whether or not a company allocates resources there.
I’m from Chile. We even have some Dota2 and LoL servers here, and usually most companies settle in BR for SA players (~40ms to BR), i think even OW has some servers there. I know it would create another region and this can potentially create more problems, but they never even tried.
Anyways latency is not the main problem, it was just part on the rant of their infrasctucture.
I would love if they publicly updated us with hardware upgrades of the servers, not even specifically but at which rate they are doing them. I don’t like to feel that my money only goes to pay for Bobby’s yacht without any improvement in the gaming experience.