PS2 confirmed to only have servers in one area of USA

[Malorn]

Originally Posted by elfailo

Many international clans have their eyes set on this game and would like it to allow them to play together without being hampered by latency.

International clans can't ever be perfectly satisfied, because there will be Euros, Aussies, and Americans and you can't give awesome pings to all of them AND still have them all on the same server. All you can do is find something that's not hideous. Like some place over Texas, where you can bring the average ping times for the extreme cases down about 30ms rather than have some people with better and others with significantly worse.

Not splitting the servers up is also better for international clans. No east-west debate where the Euros and the Aussies fight it out over which one is more important for the clan. One server location, one choice. Simple. Maybe not awesome for everyone but Awesome for everyone was never an option to begin with for an international clan.

If there's one server location things get a lot easier. Sucks for you maybe if your clan has no aussies, but they aren't catering the server location for your clan's sole benefit. Many clans have aussies and Euros alike, such as The Enclave. I like the prospect of something in the middle so it's reasonable for everyone in the outfit. It's fair.

Most of the people happy most of the time. That's the best they can do.

[Karmic Revenge]

Originally Posted by Malorn

International clans can't ever be perfectly satisfied, because there will be Euros, Aussies, and Americans and you can't give awesome pings to all of them AND still have them all on the same server. All you can do is find something that's not hideous. Like some place over Texas, where you can bring the average ping times for the extreme cases down about 30ms rather than have some people with better and others with significantly worse.

No matter where you put the datacenter it will be better or worse for someone. Texas is no better than New York or San Diego in that respect.

If we're trying to be as fair as possible we should put it in a shack in Siberia so we're all screwed.

If SOE is hosting the servers in San Diego they are doing so for reasons which are deeper than trying to piss you off. My money is on money.