Is this game going to be unplayable for Australians

blackopal · April 2014

The lag is just the worst I,v ever seen free games don,t have the lag this game has it,s unplayable I can,t move half the time im on abrand new computer i5 pent with16gig ram and big graphics card and great internet on all other online games but this is just not really working whats is the go????

camknox · April 2014

I'm not sure as I am in Australia, along with from what I can see many many others. Are you playing on the EU or NA server? There was some pretty intense lag in the 5 days early access that smoothed over within a day as lots of folks bumped themselves out of the newbie areas.

Since then there was only a few instances of lag in the capitol cities on launch day. Otherwise I've never encountered anything that I would deem the game to be unplayable from. What video card are you using and what game settings. It could be something as simple as having the wrong AA or MSAA enabled.

Socratic · April 2014

An i5 pentium? I think you've got one or the other. Latency will be bad from Au as all servers are in Texas at the moment. Also you ISP could of been throttling, or diverting you or had damaged lines or any problem causing you to have poor ping.

wrlifeboil · April 2014

The EU server is still in Texas so it seems that Australians are in the same situation as EU players unless the trans-Pacific cables are worse than trans-Atlantic cables.

I remember that some Aussie guildies in WoW typically got 250 ms pings on good days from Sydney (to the WoW California server farm), 300-400ms otherwise. Once your connection hits the U.S. and AT&T's network in California, your experience in ESO should be the same as in WoW when WoW had a Dallas server farm a few years ago. AT&T might be a baddie oligopolist trying to stifle competition from L3 and Cogent but AT&T's network is reliable for the most part.

camknox · April 2014

300ms latency is more than playable. I've played every online game with higher than 300ms ping times.

CheeseMachine · April 2014

Honestly... I felt less delay during the beta. I get the worst delay at only 320ms. It feels like it would at 1000ms on WoW. I've lost all hope in continuing to play this game because of it. How can I see myself doing well in PvP/PvE if my character isn't quick enough to cast a spell or dodge an attack. Tried it and it's ridiculously stupid.

I've defended this game since the beginning, and all through beta, but now I'm really just pissed off at how *** the delay is in Australia. Why even sell it here? (rhetorical question)

moloTov · April 2014

if it make you feel any better, on a top end rig and high speed connection from Bangkok, i'm getting constant lag spikes. i have to log out every 30minutes on average.

Yasha · April 2014

Lag is generally ok in pve and bad in pvp sometimes. You can certainly play the game from Australia, but the lag in pvp most of the time seems worse than in GW2 or some other mmos I've played.

Daracon_Rage · April 2014

Aussie here- seems fine for me on the NA server?

Sandhya · April 2014

Really any latency over 100ms is going to negatively affect your experience, no matter how 'used to' high latency you are.

Games being playable with 300ms... you can't even play a proper round of Tetris with that latency.