Problem is getting worse and worse. Chicago servers are always fine. But as soon as they overflow us to LA or the game is so dead/high mmr lobbies they force LA lobbies and bnet just randomly and constantly DC’s people. Even if you don’t get dc’d you are playing with 100 ping/packet loss for no reason. Never have packet loss on chicago servers.
Bring back texas central servers or stop cheaping out with california servers but I don’t see it getting any better with microsoft taking over since they are based out of portland. I play from mexico the game is unplayable when they force california but I get 50 ping to chicago despite it being further away and the same number of hops. But it happens to everyone with the constant random bnet dc’s and it’s all linked to the california data center.
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LA servers also serve Oceanic i think.
When Oceanic players get assigned Chicago they lag harder from what i have been told
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Yep another issue that just makes it worse. When you get put on LA servers there’s a good chance there’s OCE people in the lobby that are teleporting everywhere.
Are there not enough players in india/china/SEA/Australia? Why do they need to play on NA?
Logistically sending OCE players to NA servers is the about the worst gaming decision you can make. It’s done because of the shared language angle.
However, I know they wouldn’t mind having a South Pacific WoW Server Hub/License . < The players there
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India/phillipines are learning english at a rapid rate. Western allies who play western video games speak some english. Maybe for pve it could make sense but I’m sure anyone who pvp’s would rather play on low ping. If you speak english I’m sure you can find people to play with that also speak english. Not everyone in europe speaks the same language.
SEA don’t even all speak the same language within their own country. There’s a dozen dialects in each.
Yes. This is why english is the official language of business and government in India. And most kids start learning it around grade 6.
pretty sure blizzard posted that all shuffle/blitz games take place on their LA dataserver to “balance” ping for OCE players - i know that’s not what you were talking about specifically but they’re not going to bring back the old new york or texas servers considering the game probably has 1/10th the active subscriptions it had during its peak popularity
Weird.
I live in São Paulo, my lowest possible ping in both world and home servers is 150ms, and never came across players teleporting or packet loss.
Maybe a connection route issue?
Man, could you IMAGINE how mad tucky B would be if he had to heal the taiwanese wintrading lobbies?
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no shot you can log on a LA server right now and then a chicago and tell which is which and you can tell when you connect to a shuffle
smite killed their game by only having east coast discount budget servers and there are even fewer people on west coast compared to east coast. Having 1 coast for all your servers instead of texas or chicago is DEAD GAME WALKING
lowest possible
150
no problems
yeah stay in brazil you belong there
i live in the a midwest state, i can easily tell when it’s chicago or LA, i wasn’t disagreeing chicago is infinitely better but they’re not gonna do s*** about it
Yes anyone with 2 brain cells knows chicago servers are better.
Chicago = premium data center
Dallas = premium data center
LA = discount
New york / jersey / atlanta / virginia = discount
you want a dead pvp game you cheap out with discount servers
dont be so mad, its bad for your health kiddo
you’re on to something here, I just had a few lobbies in servers that were putting me at 200 ms
yesterday I was in a lobby that put me at 400 ms
straight up not enjoyable
my internet was fine and the lag was gone when I was back in the world
nah, LA servers are easily the best by a significant margin, no one even lives in chicago lmao
I live in Japan and have played on Chicago and LA servers both. The lag is actually not too bad on LA servers but becomes much more noticeable, to the point of being unplayable, when I tried playing on Chicago servers.
So no, we won’t be deleting LA servers for your selfish reasons, not to mention Blizzard is in Orange County which is basically LA.