[SERIOUS] What will it take for Australian servers?
This is a serious question ZOS. What do you need from your Australian/NZ players to provide us Australian servers so we can stop playing with a minimum of 300ms latency?
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kypranb14_ESO✭✭✭✭✭I think Australia would need to move much closer to Europe or North America for ZOS to consider this. Real talk.Edited by kypranb14_ESO on October 5, 2018 12:43AM9 -
Banana✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Any server in the bottom half of the world would be nice. But americans dont do geography1 -
LordGavus✭✭✭✭✭
✭I imagine it's a population issue. Not point adding a new server for 5% of the player base (I have no idea what % the oceanic players make up).5 -
Lake✭✭✭✭✭Australian servers always die in MMOs due to a lack of population. ESO is not WoW.
And even WoW ignores their Oceanic players (and they constantly complain about server problems since they're so low priority).
Edited by Lake on October 5, 2018 12:55AM2 -
Coggo✭✭✭Playing from Melbourne here. I'd pragmatically be satisfied with stability over a half empty server. When I started playing 4 years ago my latency was a playable 250ms. In the white at least. With each update that latency has crept up to forever in the red (300 to 320).
Its not as if I've sat on my laurels in those 4 years. I've optimised my connections and bought a more powerful rig.
Only hope I have for getting back to the white is the NBN.3 -
Rain_Greyraven✭✭✭✭✭About a million more Oceanic players."Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
― Robert E. Howard
So you want to be a game developer? Here is the best way to go about it.7 -
webrgesner✭✭✭✭People who are playing in the server that they are soppose to cant even get good pvp game going without lagging. getting an aussie server wont change a thing xD
Greedy mf can afford new servers but they choose not to1 -
dem0n1k✭✭✭✭✭
✭Playing from Melbourne here. I'd pragmatically be satisfied with stability over a half empty server. When I started playing 4 years ago my latency was a playable 250ms. In the white at least. With each update that latency has crept up to forever in the red (300 to 320).
Its not as if I've sat on my laurels in those 4 years. I've optimised my connections and bought a more powerful rig.
Only hope I have for getting back to the white is the NBN.
I hate to ruins your hopes but.... !
I have a 100/100 NBN connection, Fibre to the home... & my ping to ESO is the same as you currently have. In the past it _could_ get in the white & be as low as 250ms... but it's far more common to see red 300-350. The same as you, it has been getting progressively worse over time.
I have a buddy on Telstra cable & he gets almost the same numbers (to the ESO servers) as I do with NBN Fibre... it's pretty disappointing. I get MUCH better results than him if I do tests like Ookla speed test.. but even then if we set an overseas server for the test, results are pretty much the same.NA Server [PC] -- Mostly Ebonheart Pact, Mostly.3 -
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✭✭✭✭✭I've been considering leasing a T1 so I have a decent connection - and I'm in the US, in the lower 48. However, I live in the "back of beyond" (that is, 40 miles north of real broadband) in a tiny town of less than 125 full time families, at least half of which do not have landlines because in their end of the valley they actually have LOS to the cell and wifi towers - which I don't from my house in the "wrong" end of the valley; wildblue satellite is my only option (unless I can find an affordable T1).
I'd kill for 300 ms ping - mine's normally at least 2 full seconds or higher. Things were better when I played WoW - closer servers....Edited by Sylvermynx on October 5, 2018 1:24AM0 -
GlorphNoldorin✭✭✭✭✭Playing from Melbourne here. I'd pragmatically be satisfied with stability over a half empty server. When I started playing 4 years ago my latency was a playable 250ms. In the white at least. With each update that latency has crept up to forever in the red (300 to 320).
Its not as if I've sat on my laurels in those 4 years. I've optimised my connections and bought a more powerful rig.
Only hope I have for getting back to the white is the NBN.
I have to echo this almost exactly, from rural West Aust. I have found mudfish to bring ping under 300 but I have so much better isp and pc rig than when I started 4 years ago. NBN by itself did not improve speeds....on my previous isp I had a significant ping increase from dsl. Without a vpn I am around 400.....I mean how can you play at any level on 400 with the spikes we get.
ZOS will never do an oceanic server, they are all about $ and they doing just fine right now thank you.0 -
MrGarlic✭✭✭✭✭
✭I'd love that, but wouldn't be too happy to start again from scratch on a fresh new character, (for the fourth time I might add.) 'Sharp Arrows'Mr.GarlicHidden by darkness, a shadow in the night,A sped arrow dissecting the gloom,Finding it's target, such delight.0 -
IZZEFlameLash✭✭✭✭✭
✭Nothing. Not that Australian servers will alleviate my distance problem. They obviously have trouble managing the servers they have as is already (refer to performance issues that those who live closer to the servers are having).Imperials, the one and true masters of all mortal races of Tamriel0 -
smee_z✭✭✭The ESO servers would be more strategic if they were hosted in Singapore. That would make for at most 150ms latency from AU, NZ, SEA, Asia and AFRICA.
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OFFL1MIT✭✭✭They should try atleast making an asian server, the australian people would be able to play, Philippines could play , Chinese , Japanese, theres loads of countries running badly and cant play eso with decent quality. Zos is missing loads of people with money in their pockets. They should have made 3 servers from a begining, but you know...0 -
Taleof2Cities✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I’m all for my Oceanic friends having better ping ...
... even though putting “SERIOUS” in caps and brackets in the thread title doesn’t earn more points with the devs.0 -
phairdon✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭A Oceanic server is a nice fantasy. Doubt very much we have the anywhere near the player base numbers, to justify one.Your immersion is breaking my entitlement. Buff Sorc's. Darkshroud the cremator Death by furRubeus BlackFluffy knight BladesThe Fat PantherPsijic Fungal SausageFlesheater the VileCaspian Rafferty FernsbyArchfiend Warlock PiersThe Black BishopEvil Wizard Lizard (EU)Neberra Vestige Fajeon (EU)Salanis Deathstick (EU)Blood Mage Alchemist (EU)0 -
idk✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭If game did not get AUS servers during the first year it will not happen as the population is not near where it was during the first year or two of the game on PC and consoles with their respective launches.
Essentially it does not make sense with a lower population to add 3 more servers as OP is suggesting since we are talking about 3 platforms.
Maybe if OP can make some real business sense it might be something Zos might think about and it is not likely to add that many players to the game so attempting that route will not fly.
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VilniusNastavnik✭✭✭✭✭What I would also like is to have thr toons not tied to the servers. Eg if they make an oceanic server we can transfer between eu na and oc at will.Active Toons:
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MaxJrFTW✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭As soon as we get servers that can handle 30+ people in your screen at the same time without lagging yourself back to the ice age."I don't know you, and I don't care to know you."
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Ashtaris✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Rain_Greyraven wrote: »About a million more Oceanic players.
Yep, once Oceania has enough of a player base to really make a difference in ESO’s financial success, I’m sure they would be more than happy to provide a server in that area. So recruit all your friends, neighbors, co-workers, and just strangers into playing ESO
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Nova Sky✭✭✭✭✭Perhaps one day a wildly popular MMO will be developed by Australians that will have its servers based in Australia. That might be the only thing that gets the job done, I'm afraid."Wheresoever you go, go with all of your heart."1 -
Undefwun✭✭✭✭✭Not enough players and I rather play with the more diverse NA server crowd than Davo and Stevo from down the road.
NBN won’t do anything. Our OS traffic all goes through the same pipes in the end.
Compare it to a road NBN gives you many more lanes but each lane has the same speed limit. So you might be downloading 20 times faster than my ADSL2 but same ping to ESO.
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Banana✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭There are quite a few countries and people who could make use of it. Australia New Zealand South east asia or anyone else thats ignored in the lower half of the planet.1 -
Tandor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭One of the problems is that people are talking about "an Australasian server" when they actually mean "3 Australasian servers" because of the different platforms. The problem is believed to relate to a small number of players in the first place, and when you then divide it by three it's unlikely that the servers would be viable. It's unfortunate, but I don't really see a practical solution.0 -
Royaji✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭The ESO servers would be more strategic if they were hosted in Singapore. That would make for at most 150ms latency from AU, NZ, SEA, Asia and AFRICA.
So you mean in all the areas ZOS is not interested in due to either low population/low amount of potential customers or significant competition from a million other asian MMOs? Yeah, I'm not surprised ZOS went with EU and NA only.
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Royaji✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Although since the OP has "SERIOUS" in the thread topic: There is precedent of ZOS having a server for just one country. I'm not sure what state are they in but there are (were?) Japanese ESO servers. Quick population check - Japan has 5x more people than Australia. So getting to at least 120-125 millions will be a good start.0 -
ssorgatem✭✭✭✭Although since the OP has "SERIOUS" in the thread topic: There is precedent of ZOS having a server for just one country. I'm not sure what state are they in but there are (were?) Japanese ESO servers. Quick population check - Japan has 5x more people than Australia. So getting to at least 120-125 millions will be a good start.
No, there are no Japanese servers.
Japanese just connect to the PC-NA server.
Their client is actually unable to connect to the EU server.
So you'd need even more population for that...1 -
Waseem✭✭✭✭✭
✭Dude people living in Europe are getting 800+ ping in trials, disconnects to log-in screen while there are servers in europe already.. Australian serrvers are a lost cause regardless
would you buy a 1$ keychain if you had to pay 18$ shipping fee? this is how having Australian server for ESO is..0
