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[Gattsus]

I was wondering if is there any plan to have regional servers?

I just moved from UK to Hong Kong and the ping is starting to be annoying. Went from 150->250/450.

Has anyone heard anything?

[Vezm]

I don't think there's a large enough player base. The split would cause wait times to go through the roof.

[Vassago Rain]

They were gonna do this in 2012, but didn't.

[Black Ivan]

This game does not support a large enough playerbase IMO to justify regional servers and i won't get better aytime soon ifPGIdes not blow up a very big bomb.

An EU server was promised back in closed beta, but never happened.

[SirLankyIII]

The likelihood of us getting servers in Asia pacific is pretty slim, you'll just have to learn to live with an average ping of 270 like the rest of us. HSR makes it very bearable, it was horrific back in closed beta when we didn't have HSR though, killing lights was an exercise if futility.

[Willard Phule]

Never going to happen.

1 ) They can't fragment an already dismal playerbase by letting separate regions play amongst themselves. Without the Germans, Russians and Australians, there wouldn't be enough of a playerbase to justify keeping the NA servers online.

2 ) It's not smart to commit to a contract to rent servers halfway across the world when you don't know whether your company is going to go belly up in the next 6 weeks....every 6 weeks.

[Gattsus]

I think this is a point difficult to discuss without knowing numbers, but if there is a large enough player base in Australia, I guess it would be fair to offer them a good service and in that way maybe attract some new regional players #dreaming

In the same regard, I can't see how having latency will help to bring new players to MWO. A simple example would be DOTA 2 which I would argue has a large user base since it provides an excellent service. Although I'm aware that DOTA 2 provides much more than only low latency.

Still, a valid argument could be that if there are not enough players, the waiting times will rocket orbit high... but since the MM is intelligent, the conditions for populating the matches would be relaxed depending on the active usre base.allowing to have matches anyway. (maybe the MM will screw the matches by messing up with elo or groups of 12 DDCs)

Willard Phule, on 05 August 2014 - 06:07 AM, said:

2 ) It's not smart to commit to a contract to rent servers halfway across the world when you don't know whether your company is going to go belly up in the next 6 weeks....every 6 weeks.

We don't know this. Except in the case of the license renewal process, during which they threw cashgrab after cashgrab.

Edited by Gattsus, 06 August 2014 - 09:45 AM.

[Sandpit]

Black Ivan, on 05 August 2014 - 12:26 AM, said:

An EU server was promised back in closed beta, but never happened.

careful with the "P" word (promise), according to many PGI has never promised anything and anything they did promise was delivered
ok snark off

As the others have stated, player population doesn't make it feasible with players already regularly waiting 3+ minutes to find a match. If 20-30% of the population moved to a different server can you imagine what the times would be like then?

[Gattsus]

Sandpit, on 06 August 2014 - 09:53 AM, said:

careful with the "P" word (promise), according to many PGI has never promised anything and anything they did promise was delivered
ok snark off

As the others have stated, player population doesn't make it feasible with players already regularly waiting 3+ minutes to find a match. If 20-30% of the population moved to a different server can you imagine what the times would be like then?

Sc2 and Dota 2 have simialr waiting times ~3 mins. Both of them go above 3 mins regularly, at least in my case.

[Sandpit]

Gattsus, on 08 August 2014 - 11:25 AM, said:

Sc2 and Dota 2 have simialr waiting times ~3 mins. Both of them go above 3 mins regularly, at least in my case.

ok?

Never said that was "unacceptable" but splitting the queues like that WOULD make it unacceptable. I doubt the NA servers would suffer much but the other areas? yea they'd be hurting for queue times

[Gattsus]

Sandpit, on 08 August 2014 - 11:43 AM, said:

ok?

Never said that was "unacceptable" but splitting the queues like that WOULD make it unacceptable. I doubt the NA servers would suffer much but the other areas? yea they'd be hurting for queue times

Although we may never know for sure, intuition tells me the same. Sadly, this won't help to increase MWO numbers, in addition to less than stellar mechanics, bad service (compared to other games in the area) only adds cons to MWO.