What about adding a megaserver in Australia?

Lancillotto

Ok, so there is a megaserver in NA and one in Europe, but what about Australia? all the people who live here are experiencing quite a bit of lag. Every time I ride my horse I get a loading screen for a couple of seconds (this happens regularly and several times on long rides) and fighting is very frustrating, because commands are not responsive. Sometimes, when I summon my horse it takes 3 or 4 seconds to appear...
I realize that both NA and Europe have more customers than Australia, but I am sure that also all the people in Asia would love a closer megaserver, and Australia would work for many of them as well.

babylon

Prepare yourself for incoming posts telling you why your part of the world is insignificant and deserves to be ignored, because population.

Sandmanninja

As an Aussie, I would love to see this. However, I don't pvp and the ping times to the States isn't a huge issue for me. But I would like to see this happen.

Taself

I live in Hobart, Tasmania the southern most Aussie city. Have been using the European Mega Server both when it was in USA and now that it's been migrated with no real lag issues. Except for the major glitch that everyone was suffering from after the migration. Would be nice to have a local server but not something I class a major concern.

noso2142rwb17_ESO

yes please im sure those in asia would be happy if there was one in AU

Elsonso

babylon wrote: »

Prepare yourself for incoming posts telling you why your part of the world is insignificant and deserves to be ignored, because population.

I thought they abandoned that place after they stopped making Crocodile Dundee movies.

yiasemi

In Hong Kong there is occasional lag (every couple of weeks or so I have a bad day), and I can forget PvP for now, but as I am not interested in that part of the game I'm happy enough on the EU server. Not sure if an Oz server would be good, but the time zoning would rock at least. But then I wouldn't get the pick of the treasure chests and virgin dungeons. The second is not what first sprang into your diseased minds by the way.

Hortator Indoril Nerevar

YES please.. I would only need it for pvp but it is a huge disadvantage vs others....

DrOrpheus

I don't think they'd put it in AUS, but maybe a nearby Asian country if anything

babylon

DrOrpheus wrote: »

I don't think they'd put it in AUS, but maybe a nearby Asian country if anything

The ping to Asia is worse than the ping to the US from Oceanic countries, no good in Asia.

Cyberdown

always the issue with this region is the high cost of running a server for what is typically a very tiny fraction of players of the game.

babylon

babylon wrote: »

Prepare yourself for incoming posts telling you why your part of the world is insignificant and deserves to be ignored, because population.

Cyberdown wrote: »

always the issue with this region is the high cost of running a server for what is typically a very tiny fraction of players of the game.

Bingo!

Cyberdown

babylon wrote: »

babylon wrote: »

Prepare yourself for incoming posts telling you why your part of the world is insignificant and deserves to be ignored, because population.

Cyberdown wrote: »

always the issue with this region is the high cost of running a server for what is typically a very tiny fraction of players of the game.

Bingo!

I never said insignificant. You have to think like people who actually make money, since this is a business we are talking about.

We don't have numbers as to how many people are playing from that part of the world. A mega server might not make sense as there might not be enough people to even make it work...

I feel you, I don't think I could online game with a ping higher than 100...I don't know how aussies do it...

but don't make the troll bait stretch on my comment saying its insignificant.

we all know how the world works...and we all know your region doesn't have a ton of players....wait...whatever...do your im significant mega server, enjoy group finder with 200 people online at one time and enjoy pvp that's dead in most of the areas..since you want to feel so damn special...there now your insignificant.

jelliedsoup

No one cares about Oz should be in NZ.

babylon

Maybe a better idea would be to relocate the US megaserver to Oceanic NZ/Aus, seeing as the numbers of us having good ping would be so "insignificant" to quote the guy above, then everyone would be playing at the same ping disadvantage

Renuo

Great, then AD will own every keep even during off peak...

Lancillotto

Today my lag was so bad that when I attacked a guy everything froze and when I could move again I had almost no HP left and died -_-
A game that lags this bad is hardly worth 15 $/month...
I understand that the devs are probably still recovering from the cost of making the game, but at least give us some hope for a better future. What is the cost of running a megaserver? would it really be that expensive to add one for Oceania/Asia?
They made this huge efforts to create some cool PvP, and then many people can't play because of latency issues...

Karnus

No! Don't take my Aussies away! ..even if they tend to lag somewhat.

Kronosphere

but atleast when your wreck americans you can feel extra good about yourself and your superiority

kherzaheb17_ESO

instead of adding new server to Aus , i suggest move to EU or N.A

jelliedsoup

Cyberdown wrote: »

I feel you, I don't think I could online game with a ping higher than 100...I don't know how aussies do it...

100? Lol I would love that. try 200-300.

isengrimb16_ESO

I heard it was mostly because the telephone monopoly charges way too much to host a server there, which is why Blizz doesn't have servers there, either. Which sucks, and I really feel for the Aussies. At least as a Canadian, the server being in Texas isn't too bad (and no one ever puts servers here either, I bet). I'm actually surprised that my latency to EU isn't that bad, though, and sometimes still feels more responsive than NA.

babylon wrote: »

DrOrpheus wrote: »

I don't think they'd put it in AUS, but maybe a nearby Asian country if anything

The ping to Asia is worse than the ping to the US from Oceanic countries, no good in Asia.

That sounds really strange. Why would that be? Crappier lines in Asia?

Dyabolikal

Im Aussie, I would love to see that happen but we know that it wont. Wishful thinking, at least we were not forced to be on the EU server no that would be real bad. Having an Asian server would not work either as you would need to know Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English to be able to play effectively.

I am learning japanese and thats hard enough as it is. Lets just leave it where it is and know that Aussies are better players because we can still win under bad latency

babylon

isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »

I heard it was mostly because the telephone monopoly charges way too much to host a server there, which is why Blizz doesn't have servers there, either. Which sucks, and I really feel for the Aussies.

Blizzard actually does host servers in Aus - for Diablo III

The costs must be reasonably ok or they wouldn't be doing this, so no reason other games companies don't follow suit.

isengrimb16_ESO

babylon wrote: »

isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »

I heard it was mostly because the telephone monopoly charges way too much to host a server there, which is why Blizz doesn't have servers there, either. Which sucks, and I really feel for the Aussies.

Blizzard actually does host servers in Aus - for Diablo III

The costs must be reasonably ok or they wouldn't be doing this, so no reason other games companies don't follow suit.

Oh, they finally did that? Curse me for being out-of-date, then.

OK, so catch me up, then, do you still have a telephone monopoly called Telecomm? We sort of have phone monopolies here, too, based on region, but cell phones kind of broke that.

Crumpy

I feel sorry for Aussies n New Zealanders in this regard.

Tabbycat

It probably depends on how many customers would be serviced by having a megaserver in that location and whether or not they'd be able recoup the expenses by having one there.

You'd need the hardware, obviously. But you'd also have to rent space for the server. Plus you'd have to hire people to handle it. So you'd have to have another setup like the one they've got in Germany.

If the Aussie/NZ subscriber base is large enough to cover the expenses associated with running a megaserver there, I'd say they should consider doing it. Especially if it would end up encouraging more Aussies/NZ's to buy the game and subscribe.

TheAmu

It would help if our average internet speed was higher than 4mb a sec.

zgrssd

babylon wrote: »

babylon wrote: »

Prepare yourself for incoming posts telling you why your part of the world is insignificant and deserves to be ignored, because population.

Cyberdown wrote: »

always the issue with this region is the high cost of running a server for what is typically a very tiny fraction of players of the game.

Bingo!

The population numbers just don't add up for a dedicated Oceanian Server:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_continents_by_population#Regional_and_continental_.28sub.29totals_in_2013
It is about half the population of germany or 1/20 of the total european population.

And they had to multiply that number of servers by 3 - one for the PC players and one for each console.
Thier cost/benefit analysis is propably saying "not worth it".

mips_winnt

I don't know why people seem to think local population is a major deciding factor in data center location, as a matter of fact for the Asia-Pacific region Australia has one of the more advanced infrastructures for outsourced data centers (Seoul would be another one), along with reasonable costs and decent ingress/egress network access at a reasonable price. So locating a data center in Australia to service APAC is a fairly attractive option (if ZOS decided to add a DC in APAC that is) some of the other options in the region are either more expensive (e.g. Japan or Singapore) or suffer onerous network access restrictions (anywhere in China).

AlexDougherty

kherzaheb17_ESO wrote: »

instead of adding new server to Aus , i suggest move to EU or N.A

Reminds me of that think tank that said everyone in Britain should move the the south of England.

I feel sorry for Australians and NZers, they are unfortunate with MMOs in their location.