Unpopular Opinion - Region Locked Servers

Wolfpaw · January 2022

@ZOS_RichLambert apologies if I tag the wrong person to bring this up,

With ESO continued growing popularity all these years, and the many more to come, is region-locked servers for Cyrodiil stability, faction balance, & overall health of the Cyrodiil game a possible consideration in the future,,or does this not have an impact on server/game performance? Idk, not my field.

NA Server, I believe, already covers all of the Americas, JP, & AU. Amazing in itself.

The added EU mega server (and regions associated) growing Cyrodiil player population joining NA is becoming too much possibly?

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hafgood · January 2022

Actually both servers cover the entire world, as your ESO account allows you access to both, there is no regionalisation on the game and that's a good thing. Players from all countries should be able to play with those from all other countries, we shouldn't look to prevent this in any way.

Wolfpaw · January 2022

hafgood wrote: »

Actually both servers cover the entire world, as your ESO account allows you access to both, there is no regionalisation on the game and that's a good thing. Players from all countries should be able to play with those from all other countries, we shouldn't look to prevent this in any way.

Respectfully I hope all is on the table to be discussed and looked at if solutions can be found, or to dismiss if not a factor.

hafgood · January 2022

No, this is not something that should ever be considered. People have friends all over the world and choose to play with them, segregation of any sort should not be tolerated

Merlin13KAGL · January 2022

What do you propose is the benefit from doing this?

If someone joins a server, the resulting connection (good or bad) is something they choose to play with. It doesn't somehow affect the rest of the existing players?

Rohamad_Ali · January 2022

Is this another attempt to blame Canada? We have friends that ride elk Elk an some who ride burros. Be a shame to segregate these fun people all over. What about this ones Puerto Rican friends? I would not want to lose any of them.

Wolfpaw · January 2022

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Is this another attempt to blame Canada? We have friends that ride elk Elk an some who ride burros. Be a shame to segregate these fun people all over. What about this ones Puerto Rican friends? I would not want to lose any of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas

Is not just the U.S.A.

hafgood · January 2022

You do realise the NA server is based in North America and the EU one is in Europe?

Thats all it means.

I, who live in Europe, can play on either server depending on the mood I'm in.

Assuming you play on the NA server there is nothing stopping you playing on the EU server.

What you cannot do is play an EU character on the NA server or a NA character on the EU server.

So when it comes to Cyrodiil everyone playing in the same campaign as you is on the same server as you. If you are playing PS NA Greyhost then everyone else in that campaign is also on the PS NA server.

Part of playing a game such as this is to be inclusive, players make friends all over the world, and thats good, there should be no attempt to stop this by making the servers regionally exclusive.

Wolfpaw · January 2022

hafgood wrote: »

You do realise the NA server is based in North America and the EU one is in Europe?

Thats all it means.

I, who live in Europe, can play on either server depending on the mood I'm in.

Assuming you play on the NA server there is nothing stopping you playing on the EU server.

What you cannot do is play an EU character on the NA server or a NA character on the EU server.

So when it comes to Cyrodiil everyone playing in the same campaign as you is on the same server as you. If you are playing PS NA Greyhost then everyone else in that campaign is also on the PS NA server.

Part of playing a game such as this is to be inclusive, players make friends all over the world, and thats good, there should be no attempt to stop this by making the servers regionally exclusive.

I'm inquiring, if one mega server's Cyrodiil campaign becomes the most popular/used world wide creates performance problems, or not.

hafgood · January 2022

It's irrelevant, the NA server is in North America, the EU server in Europe. They do not impact on each other. They are in different locatiins

adriant1978 · January 2022

Wolfpaw wrote: »

I'm inquiring, if one mega server's Cyrodiil campaign becomes the most popular/used world wide creates performance problems, or not.

So you want to know if banning EU players from the NA server and vice versa will improve performance?

I'd be really surprised if it made any difference at all and would just annoy people.

Beardimus · January 2022

Wolfpaw wrote: »

hafgood wrote: »

You do realise the NA server is based in North America and the EU one is in Europe?

Thats all it means.

I, who live in Europe, can play on either server depending on the mood I'm in.

Assuming you play on the NA server there is nothing stopping you playing on the EU server.

What you cannot do is play an EU character on the NA server or a NA character on the EU server.

So when it comes to Cyrodiil everyone playing in the same campaign as you is on the same server as you. If you are playing PS NA Greyhost then everyone else in that campaign is also on the PS NA server.

Part of playing a game such as this is to be inclusive, players make friends all over the world, and thats good, there should be no attempt to stop this by making the servers regionally exclusive.

I'm inquiring, if one mega server's Cyrodiil campaign becomes the most popular/used world wide creates performance problems, or not.

Is your suggestion that players from AU (or EUbfor that matter) playing on NA may be dragging down the overall NA server performance for all NA players?

I.e. potentially blaming non NA residents for Cyrodiil performance issues??

Wolfpaw · January 2022

Beardimus wrote: »

Wolfpaw wrote: »

hafgood wrote: »

You do realise the NA server is based in North America and the EU one is in Europe?

Thats all it means.

I, who live in Europe, can play on either server depending on the mood I'm in.

Assuming you play on the NA server there is nothing stopping you playing on the EU server.

What you cannot do is play an EU character on the NA server or a NA character on the EU server.

So when it comes to Cyrodiil everyone playing in the same campaign as you is on the same server as you. If you are playing PS NA Greyhost then everyone else in that campaign is also on the PS NA server.

Part of playing a game such as this is to be inclusive, players make friends all over the world, and thats good, there should be no attempt to stop this by making the servers regionally exclusive.

I'm inquiring, if one mega server's Cyrodiil campaign becomes the most popular/used world wide creates performance problems, or not.

Is your suggestion that players from AU (or EUbfor that matter) playing on NA may be dragging down the overall NA server performance for all NA players?

I.e. potentially blaming non NA residents for Cyrodiil performance issues??

I'm not sure where you got the idea of non NA residents.

wazzz56 · January 2022

I feel like this post is a veiled complaint about night capping......which while annoying, understandably happens because what is prime time for others may be the middle of the night for you.......

hafgood · January 2022

I still don't understand what you are asking. I think you are asking if EU players playing on the NA server has an impact on the NA server and vice versa?