PS2 confirmed to only have servers in one area of USA

[Xyntech]

I'm in Utah, and I get better pings to New York than to Las Vegas.

Intradesting.

[Electrofreak]

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[Crator]

Originally Posted by GuyFawkes

Just from a game perspective , I feel they took this decision to have more chance of filling servers 24/7 with a spread of players.
They are selling the game on the idea of massive constant war .Splitting the fight into timezones defeats this in many ways .
Other than obvious and quite legitimate concerns by posters about ping/lag I wonder if they have thought how this will play out when it comes to maintenance and patching. It could be 2am in san diego but a full firefight may be going on for players from another zone in their primetime.

I think you just hit the nail on the head. I'm certain that the outcry of existing players wanting to play without region locks also had a hand in this decision.

[Nash]

I'm sorry if this has been answered already but i really don't have the time to search trough 26 pages.

Anyways, what about the EU players? Will we have EU servers or are we forced to play on the US servers aswell?

Thanks in advance

[Brusi]

no, thread title missed the part about EU having it's own.

[wasdie]

Everybody here is terribly underestimating modern networks. It will likely not be a problem.

[Mechzz]

Originally Posted by Nash

I'm sorry if this has been answered already but i really don't have the time to search trough 26 pages.

Anyways, what about the EU players? Will we have EU servers or are we forced to play on the US servers aswell?

Thanks in advance

Originally Posted by Brusi

no, thread title missed the part about EU having it's own.

Bags already apologised for the title, he ran out of space

Players in Europe will have the choice to play on either European or US servers and vice versa.

[ezekiul]

Originally Posted by WellWisherELF

Really hope this isn't true. 50-60ms is an eternity in most FPS games. This could possibly give west-coast players a noticeable advantage, although it remains to be seen how the client is affected by ping differential.

In PS1 its acceptable to have between 50-100 ping, however I do live on the west coast and dropped down to 20-40 ping when servers moved so I got a little spoiled. But I also noticed people warp a lot more D:

[archaonn]

Lol, i see a lot of people complaining about 100-150 ms. I live in South America, and playing blacklight west/east server I get like 200 ms, and I do great.

[Otleaz]

This is still a problem, I believe.

[Phellix]

Originally Posted by Otleaz

This is still a problem, I believe.

Really. There is no problem because we have no confirmed information, STOP BUMPING THIS THREAD.

[Otleaz]

Originally Posted by Phellix

Really. There is no problem because we have no confirmed information, STOP BUMPING THIS THREAD.

How are we going to get confirmation if they don't know we want it?

[Inverness]

What we need are servers on the west coast, gulf coast (or in Dallas or something), and east coast when considering the US. I live in Houston and I wont have it as bad as people on the opposite coast of the servers but it is still pretty annoying.

Though I don't expect any of this to be too much of an issue due to improvements in networking code nowadays.

[Top Sgt]

Originally Posted by Artimus

If its only one server it should be placed in the midwest, Chicago. To me thats the most logical fairest way its a huge hub basically in the center of the USA.

it's not quite in the dead middle of the US but he's right tho Chicago is one of the 3 main hubs in the USA and it is "central" united states still.

kansas is dead center but nothing in kansas but missile installations and plenty of them.

[EightEightEight]

SOE currently has their server farm in Las Vegas and is supporting at least DC Online there if not many other games