Putting the console release on hold is the delay. We were to get our server (that we were mislead into believing would come with live release) with the launch of the console version.

As it is another item that has been failed to be communicated about, probably don't hold your breath. The dust of ages will have settled before we get it.

Black-Bird wrote: »

sajackson wrote: »

I don't want to moan because I really am enjoying a lot of things about the game but for the love of christ can you (Zeni) please pull your fingers out and move this damned server to Europe. I'm on 150 Meg broadband and am consistently up around 250 ms latency most nights. I'm sorry if this sounds petty but I'm just tired of taking damage from stuff when I'm clearly not standing in the crap.

What is the hold-up? Do you need to build a new super-cargo ship to get the server over or something?

Wow imagine if you were oceanic id kill for 250MS on a bad day

I feel your pain.

The problem with the latency is that it really destroys the combat experience, both in PvE & PvP. One of Zeni's stated goals was to provide a first class combat experience but this is ruined so often by the knowledge that network latency was a major contributor to a death rather than player skill (or lack thereof). The difficulty is that it's not simply enough to react quickly to enemy (player or npc) attacks, I actually have to preempt myself by 250 ms which as most people will probably realise is a bloody hard thing to do unless you have Jedi foresight. The effect is just compounded in PvP where both players are similarly handicapped leaving a completely disjointed experience (I guess this is mitigated somewhat by the fact that 1v1 PvP encounters seem quite rare in Cyrodiil).

I pretty much always got a solid 20 ms playing WoW. 250 might not seem like a lot but Zeni need to realise it is totally destroying the combat experience.

It's not one server. It's an entire infrastructure. Megaserver is a concept, it does not mean one physical box.

ZOS_HugoP wrote: »

Greetings folks,

We are working on migrating the EU megaserver to its final home in a European datacenter. This move should be made sometime during the summer, and we’ll let you know as soon as there’s more info to share. You can find more information about this here: The Road Ahead – June 4th .

Thanks!

With respect, that is just a little more than copy and paste of what is written in the linked article or page. There is no 'more' information.

It would be nice to get some more information regarding the migration of the EU mega server to the EU.

As I understand it the hardware and the software for the mega server, though inextricably related, are different things. The mega server hardware could well be built in place and ready to go long before the software is 'ported' (cannot think of a better way to put that just now) to it. After such a 'port' there will, no doubt, need to be lots of testing before an EU based EU megaserver went 'live' for the gamers. Continous testing or monitoring will also be needed after going 'live' and it is likely that there will be a plethora of problems related to the switch over.

Thing is, no noose is good noose! Except it isn't. No news to the gamers will probably have some envisioning bad news or making up there own news.

To be fair, the forum mods and devs posting cannot win. If they give out provisional news about the EU server migration, then the risk of a backlash when the provisional news is found to be incorrect is great. The possibility of praise when unexpected good and correct news is released is much lower. It's a kind of 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' affair.

This copy and paste response does no one any favors though. It could make the poster look uncaring or lazy (I mean no offence), could make the devs look untrustworthy and will probably displease many of the gamers that enjoy the game so much they continue to pay subs.

Edit: Minor tidy up.