ANZ (Oceanic) Server announcement from ZOS.

Stormshaper

Is it really technically impossible to improve the connectivity in that region of the globe without requiring a separate server?

More to the point, is it impossible for any game to do this at all or impossible for only this game to do this due to whatever underlying reason?

Exodium

TheYKcid wrote: »

Getting a stable 220-250 ping from here in Sydney, entirely playable. Use a good VPN and pick the right nodes.

I recommend Mudfish, it's cheap and effective.

How do I do this on ps4? I suck with technology lol

Banana

If they could at minimum [edit] akamai so my ping when back to a resonably steady 280ish i had a couple years ago would be nice. But that phone call is obviously to hard.

[edited for circumventing profanity filter]

Undefwun

TheYKcid wrote: »

Getting a stable 220-250 ping from here in Sydney, entirely playable. Use a good VPN and pick the right nodes.

I recommend Mudfish, it's cheap and effective.

I use Vypr and connect to an Austin node and still can't get better than 280, but i know my actual connection is pretty crap anyway...

MattT1988

I think anyone with at least half a brain knew that getting an OCE server was a long shot. But they definitely need to think of a way to improve the game’s performance in this part of the world. I’m sick of being of not being able to do trials, I’m sick of Vet Maelstrom being damn near unplayable, im sick of being at a disadvantage in PvP just because of where I live, a place mind you, where ZOS has an office and advertised the game heavily, so they have a responsibility to make sure it’s a stable experience because that’s what we paid for.

Runefang

I could well be wrong but give us a server here that routes traffic to the mega server in the US? They can definitely achieve higher speeds than those on residential broadband connections. So we Aussies connect to a Sydney server with minimal lag, routing to the Texan server with some but less significant lag. Personally I’m not fussed on getting 50 ping but why can’t I get 200 yet?

russelmmendoza

250 to 300 ping in Manila.
15mbps dsl connection.
It will never get lower than that.

Undefwun

Runefang wrote: »

I could well be wrong but give us a server here that routes traffic to the mega server in the US? They can definitely achieve higher speeds than those on residential broadband connections. So we Aussies connect to a Sydney server with minimal lag, routing to the Texan server with some but less significant lag. Personally I’m not fussed on getting 50 ping but why can’t I get 200 yet?

Not sure if you read any of the other threads.. but ZOS uses Akamai for data protection. Which means all traffic from Australia bound for the ESO NA server gets routed to the closest Akamai node, which is Singapore or something around there then to server.

Which is why regardless of if you on NBN or crap ADSL2 like me... everyone has roughly the same crap ping.

Mr_Walker

Stormshaper wrote: »

Is it really technically impossible to improve the connectivity in that region of the globe without requiring a separate server?

Yes. It's called "distance".

Vapirko

This isn’t a surprise. Fairly obvious. What we would have preferred was some communication on the implementation of Akamai DDoS protection and a very obvious increase in latency.

fred4

Where's the line that says "except if half of you could kindly leave Cyrodiil, cause ... errr ... just that part is feeling too crowded, right ... right?"

SaintSubwayy

to damb it down for us...

Australia and New zealand playerbase is too small to make Profit on them, if they have their own server....

actually a Asia / Australia / newzealand server would prob be a bit more viable...but then we'd probably get elitism on a whole new lvl

Hortator Indoril Nerevar

I pay for the best internet in Australia... Literally.. you would feel sick if you knew how much I spend on my internet per month...

I have a nbn fiber optic connection. 100 down 50 up. Yes... for Australia that is amazing.. I also know.. that it doesnt help me necessarily have a better connection...

I use to have 250 avg ping and nowadays I get 330-400 on average and some nights its been 9999 and literally unplayable.. hell 330-400 is pretty unplayable...

I have 100% every zone.. done every trial HM except for vCR and do 50 single unbuffed on 6m.. All I do is think how much better the experience would be if I had better ping and how much better I could perform in the game.. Every time I die out side of the red by a mile I think about how I am spending $15 a month for this..

I know my connection means nothing to the distance and sever.. however Aussies get a *** deal with this server..

After all this... just be aware that Aussies can die miles out of the red.. so give em a break at least..

Also... good luck pvping for us..

Seri

I'm like most of the above. I don't really care about the lack of ANZ/Oceanic based server - too many friends on NA to leave now anyway. What does suck is the horrible Akamai routing - we were getting 260ms at launch, and using a VPN I still get that. The difference now is without a VPN being forced up to HK or Tokyo rather than just heading straight across the Pacific

Digiman

NoMoreChillies wrote: »

dont want OCE servers (too many friends on NA)

we want our ping back below 250 like 2016 (akaimi is YOUR PROBLEM)

get a clue

This @ZOS_GinaBruno....

The truth is that akamai is ripping you off and pissing off your customer base. To my oceanic brothers and sisters who want better ping please push ZoS to remove akamai its a *** poor service that is just leeching ping...

Digiman

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Undefwun wrote: »

Runefang wrote: »

I could well be wrong but give us a server here that routes traffic to the mega server in the US? They can definitely achieve higher speeds than those on residential broadband connections. So we Aussies connect to a Sydney server with minimal lag, routing to the Texan server with some but less significant lag. Personally I’m not fussed on getting 50 ping but why can’t I get 200 yet?

Not sure if you read any of the other threads.. but ZOS uses Akamai for data protection. Which means all traffic from Australia bound for the ESO NA server gets routed to the closest Akamai node, which is Singapore or something around there then to server.

Which is why regardless of if you on NBN or crap ADSL2 like me... everyone has roughly the same crap ping.

GlorphNoldorin

TheYKcid wrote: »

Getting a stable 220-250 ping from here in Sydney, entirely playable. Use a good VPN and pick the right nodes.

I recommend Mudfish, it's cheap and effective.

I dont hear of anyone from Australia getting 220 ping even with a vpn. I have used many vpn and while the best I have found is exit lag and gets me consistently under 300, the game does not play like under 300 ping. There is still plenty of lag. Frankly mudfish was not very useful as it disconnected frequently. Exitlag I found to be much more relaibale.

Whatever, its the same old story, just because you get decent connection, doesnt mean you can flippantly exhort everyone else to do what you do.

The fact still remains, why do we have to use a vpn to get somewhere near what the game was like at launch?

And to ZOS, what a convenient, half arsed way of trying to brush off Oceanic/Asian players. You guys crack me up. You are happy to take our money and provide a deteriorating service whose performance if it was observed in the US would have you going out of business.

Asia(as in asia pacific/oceanic).....there is not enough people playing ESO from asia to support a server? Ok lol

Heady

@ZOS_GinaBruno hi

Heady

where is the poll at someone start the poll

KoultouraS

The money the Aussies have been feeding this game company are enough to warrant a
dedicated for them server and not to let them be in their 300+ ping misery for ever.
Just do it and let them decide what they want and where they want to log in.
And as all the above post say, create an Eastern Megaserver Including Japan/China and Oceania region

Be for once, ZOS, what you ask your costumers to be,
aka to invest into something beforehand, no matter how convinced you are this will work.

Its nice to ask us pay for DLC and expansions beforehand with preorders,
but I ain't seeing much of the same when this comes to costumer services...

P.S I am in EU server and not an Australian

Chronocidal

one day ....

one day an australian gaming developer will create a game that ranks high in MMO charts and they will base the game servers in perth western australia and route international players through anchorage then tanzanique and finally through a satellite dish relay in the christmas islands

then US players can suffer through 300+ ms latency and see how they like it

Rylisin

"Best experience possible"
* proceeds to blatantly ignore the unplayable state of the game due to insane ping NZ / Aus players have*

Feels like the Dev team has completely missed the point. Like the Point being the south pole and them dilly dallying up to the North pole, or better yet. Our issue is the sun and they've decided to yeet into a Black hole. Talk about a wooosh moment.
I'd happily accept the NA / EU megaserver nonsense if the game was playable. Which it is not. They've ignored us up until now and they still. miss. the. point. We want a playable game with playable ping, not this 350-500 BS we have had since before Nerfmire.

Either way, I'm fed up with the shoddy customer service and response to the whole situation. Moved off to another MMO, one I can actually play for and am happy to give my hard earned pennies too. GG ZOS i guess. If you wanted a majority of the Oceanic player base to hate you even more, well... You've done it.

Heady

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/463420/are-you-playing-from-aus-nz-jpn

made le poll

Billdor

For all the melons prompting ZoS to build/host in Asia, you do realise China HEAVILY censors violence in video games right? Western culture is completely different to Eastern.

Take WoW for example, in China the Scholomance dungeon (necromancy theme) has skeletons censored with loafs of bread..

Its simply too much man power to cater to such a small minority.

Billdor

NoMoreChillies wrote: »

TheYKcid wrote: »

Getting a stable 220-250 ping from here in Sydney, entirely playable. Use a good VPN and pick the right nodes.

I recommend Mudfish, it's cheap and effective.

why should i be forced to pay 3rd party for the same ping i had 3 years ago?

Take some legal action then, oh wait you'll be humiliated.

starkerealm

Undefwun wrote: »

Runefang wrote: »

I could well be wrong but give us a server here that routes traffic to the mega server in the US? They can definitely achieve higher speeds than those on residential broadband connections. So we Aussies connect to a Sydney server with minimal lag, routing to the Texan server with some but less significant lag. Personally I’m not fussed on getting 50 ping but why can’t I get 200 yet?

Not sure if you read any of the other threads.. but ZOS uses Akamai for data protection. Which means all traffic from Australia bound for the ESO NA server gets routed to the closest Akamai node, which is Singapore or something around there then to server.

Which is why regardless of if you on NBN or crap ADSL2 like me... everyone has roughly the same crap ping.

Hong Kong if I remember correctly. Which is probably worse, because of all the network congestion up there.

ATomiX96

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Seems to me that a server in OCE would also serve SEA and JPN though. Perhaps also China? Surely that would be a decent population combined?

Yea but china is always a very special topic, due to the governments strict censorship ideology.
They would most likely need a server for their own with their special censorships and stuff.

So realisticly it looks like SEA, JPN, South-Korea, AU/NZ megaserver would make sense, but they made a good point, that there might not be enough playerbase to keep the world "alive" and transfering accounts from NA/EU and stuff is probably also a nightmare, maybe it would even require people to start from scratch on those new megaservers if they would ever make one.

Alucardo

It's nice they've actually released this statement, so people aren't waiting and hoping. They now have a solid answer with a solid reason.
However, after reading this I may stay in the UK instead of moving back to Australia.

gepe87

Good. Then improve EU server.

Runefang

I remember playing the original Tribes game on a US server, my ping was 220ms. That was 20 years ago.