And furthermore:

North America is fully operational and our European datacenter will be soon, but we have found during our beta tests that the location of these servers is not going to affect the gameplay experience. Our testing has now confirmed that millions of players from Europe (and beyond) can play on our North American server and experience ESO as it was designed—without latency or lag problems.

Strange how some Australian players claim to have latency issues when ZO have completely eliminated lag from their system. Somebody is lying here... my bet is on the Australians.

I have to say I personally haven't had 'any' issues with lag. As for the polished bit... its been err... ok

I did not get to play at launch SINCE I "PREORDERED". I have not hardly played since my "PREORDER" did not come in until a week after launch and ZOS blocked my account until my "PREORDER" came in. I still have 2 active accounts I need to cancel before the free 30 days is up. The other 3 Imperial "PREORDERS" I never did put in credit card info.

Laura wrote: »

nah the actual launch and lag have been great. some of the later bugs - not so much.

First MMO I was able to log right into and play on day one - they delivered. I'm not forgiving them for all the other issues not by a long shot but this thread is silly.

You must not play at the same times I do. Lag was here the first day of pre-launch. Gated quests and duping bugs were in from day 1. That is not a "polished" launch experience.

To me they've held up their word, experienced no lag, no bugged quests.
Beautiful game so far. Love it!!

In my experience, he was spot on. Spooky.

If you have lag issues it is probably on your end, or the route your packs are taking to reach the game server. There are a number of nodes between you and the game server, for sure. Zenimax can not control the route your computer takes as it travels the inter-tubes......

My game experience has been very good to this point.

rcfouts_ESO wrote: »

From Matt Firor - Studio General Manager, ZeniMax Online

"We will make sure that no matter where you live, every player in North America, Europe, Oceania, and many places beyond will have a polished, lag-free launch experience"

And the majority of YOU community users have replied that Lag will not be an issue. Now you see how it is. It is already burning, you are in the fire, you feel the fire - now be smarter. And next time act slash BE a little wiser.

I do not seem to experience lag either, and I have a pretty terrible connexion.

Been down a couple of hours, is there any update on the ETA when the server might go back up.

I know its cool to mock people that mention compensation and its like a fraction of a buck for the down time. But is there any chance that the levels of down time can be acknowledged by the development or community team.

Is the official line as many are humorously depicting F**K YOU players, don't like it then F**K right off. We don't see any problem with down time at and will bring the serves down at least once a day. Or is this considered to be a poor level of service that customers shouldn't come to expect and something that affected players should feel rightly annoyed at.

In my experience MMO's seldom change before its too late. A team with a proven track record of ignoring players don't suddenly change. They only change when the dump a New Player Experience on the player base and then watch flood gates open as people flee the drowning ship.

Ker.Rakb16_ESO wrote: »

And furthermore:

North America is fully operational and our European datacenter will be soon, but we have found during our beta tests that the location of these servers is not going to affect the gameplay experience. Our testing has now confirmed that millions of players from Europe (and beyond) can play on our North American server and experience ESO as it was designed—without latency or lag problems.

Strange how some Australian players claim to have latency issues when ZO have completely eliminated lag from their system. Somebody is lying here... my bet is on the Australians.

Well, as we all know, Australia is populated entirely by criminals, so... yup.

Seriously, though, I'm in Canada and I've been playing every day since launch. There was one day when I experienced serious loading lag issues, although there wasn't any gameplay lag that day. There was another time when I experienced gameplay lag, but when I signed out and signed back in it was gone.

I expect that those of us in the US and Canada would be less likely to experience lag than people in any other part of the world, though. At least until the European mega-server is actually moved to Europe - then people in Europe will probably have the same experience as us.

akruvi wrote: »

I do wonder, all the players reporting no lag issues, you wouldn't happen to live in the US or Canada, right?

Yes in the craptastic USA, although I do occasionally get lag spikes I barely think anything of it.