I'm from the EU but as it looks now, and SOE keeps their word on free server choice, I will play on a NA server. I'd rather deal with an increase in ping time (within reasonable limits of course) and odd hours, than another outsourced hosting deal with the typical issues every single one of those has had through the years.
I can appreciate the challenges the European continent brings for a publisher when it comes to different countries/languages/support/etc. But if at all possible, I would suggest to SOE to host their own English language servers for Europe. I expect that the gain in paying customers would far outweigh any extra cost of providing the servers.
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