Please give us at least one AU/NZ server…
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+1 for oce servers please!
Closing the Valtan server should show AGS that there are a lot of OCE players that need OCE servers…
So give us OCE servers… this is ridiculous.
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You guys realise we’re in the middle of launch week so the chances of them getting back to us with any kind of update or roadmap for OCE servers just isn’t going to happen for a couple of weeks minimum.
Might not be what you want to hear but they have more pressing things going on at the moment, making sure they are ready for actual f2p launch in a few hours and then addressing Any issues that come up like the founders duping issue that happened…
Give it a few weeks for things to calm down and we might hear more or we won’t until they have concrete details locked in to share with us.
But yeah if it’s an infrastructure issue and they can’t host the game with current hardware in SYD aws data center then of course we’re not going to get any servers immediately.
Let’s give them a chance to get launch over with and start planning out next steps.
But keep the thread alive because expose is good!
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So, the problems I am having with lag and screen freezes will just have to wait for a couple of weeks…
There is always something else to play.
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I believe the point is they had plenty of advance notice to get a server ready before launch, and didn’t.
Many of the issues people are currently upset about could have been avoided by having an OCE server.
There really isn’t any excuse, this was just an incredibly short-sighted decision.
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AGS just messing off the OCE players, i’m so disappointed - not able to play in Valtan at game launch they are restricting the new players from creating unless u buy founders pack and create character ahead start ,why not just give the damm OCE servers instead opening new servers in NA/EU.
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firstly, in love with this game. its actually really fun, in depth and challenging,
The biggest obstacle for me right now is the lag/ping.
- Screen freezes, followed by a game crash. this is after a major lag spike.
- boss mechanics too hard to react too. this game is fast paced, unpredictable and requires precise timing and positioning. VERY HARD< near impossible with 200+ ping.
- PVP: every time i roll away from cc, i get rubber banded back, and roll go’s on CD.
Now I have fast Fiber to the home. 500MBPS +. stable in every other game.
Please Amazon, go play this masterpiece at 200+ ping, then come tell me how your experience was.
I beg for OCE servers.
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They had like 2 months and we don’t know the circumstances behind the scenes to pass judgement on how long is long enough…
we do know however that sydney does not have the same architecture availble that all the other data centers do have available so it’s reasonable to assume that if it was a matter of unavailable hardware and in the middle of a chip shortage, maybe 2 months wasnt enough.
Or maybe they are waiting for the Melb data center set to open soon
it’s not great, but it’s not like anything is going to change until it’s ready to change. Yes of course it’s all unavoidable if they just had the servers, but the truth is we don’t know what barriers they have faced. I will say maybe they shouldn’t be so closed off and give us a definitive yes or no about servers and if yes but not yet, explain why.
I noticed that Gold River was annoyed that Amazon didn’t relay the fact that the game was delayed because he wanted T3 in at launch… Maybe Amazon needs to listen and communicate with us better, things would be a lot more chill for sure if they just gave us some real info.
Ok, well i’m playing on USEast which is literally worse so i can be with friends and my guild so i get like 200ms instead of the 150 i would get on USWest. I’m like 503 ilvl now, have done all the guardian raids upto my ilvl restriction, abyss dungeons, no problem soloing chaos dungeons.
I mean it’s a small sample and i have done no PvP because with season 1 not starting for a while i don’t feel the need too and i’d like to just focus on character progression at the moment, so i don’t know how bad PvP is but i can tell you 100% for real that i have not felt hindered by my 200ms ping yet. Not to say that it won’t happen… but maybe you have an unstable node between yourself and the server causing you to have an unplayable experience… i don’t know.
But no it’s not acceptable of course, but that’s not really their problem. They gave us a place to play on and it’s out choice if we do or not right? It sucks definitely and i’m sure for the people on the team who read through this forum they feel for us too. But until they are in a situation to give us servers for whatever reason we’re not going to get servers no matter how shit our experience is…
Sorry, but this just doesn’t cut it.
Sydney doesn’t have the same architecture? Where did you get that from?
They’re AWS servers, they’re the same globally - Sydney is also the best location geographically for NZ and the rest of Aus, wouldn’t make sense to put them in Melb. And communication is exactly the issue, thousands of players have been asking for months with only a few vague responses that it still wasn’t happening but to ‘keep asking’.
Great that you don’t notice it… a lot of us do. If you want to play at the highest level of PvE or PvP, you absolutely WILL be at a disadvantage, that’s not even arguable.
How is it not their problem? Stop making excuses for a multi billion dollar corporation - we give them the same amount of money as other players around the world, do we not deserve an equivalent experience?
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Sydeny does not support r5 BareMetal to my knowledge. which is what lost ark servers run on.
Yay, half of our friends are gonna get locked to other servers. Didnt we tell you OCE servers…did we?
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All the datacenters that it’s hosted on have r5 specifically b or ms servers, CA data center doesn’t have it and the game is hosted on oregon for the west.
Ohio doesn’t have it and it’s hosted in virginia in the east, coincidentally they are also the newer data centers in their regions… thus having the newer tech in them.
You know who else does not have this SYD data center, coincidentally there is a new melb data center opening in the next 8 weeks or so which will have all the newest tech in it.
The servers are not the same globally and they have multitudes of architecture in them
Well… this means that their prediction that there wont be many Australian players, will come true…
Aussies will NOT put up with all the lag and screen freezes… they will just move on to other games and gaming companies that are willing to look after Aussies concerns. We will leave the game in droves, leaving the US West servers ghost towns…
So it is their problem, or will be very soon.
If they had given us the servers we deserve, this would not have been an issue.
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I personally am not having these issues on the further away servers.
But i am sorry your experience is so terrible that the game is unplayable, maybe just have to wait and see what happens… not sure what else to say.
As far as I can see, Sydney is in every list there.
Ouch this thread is from November and no OCE servers on launch, yeah we never getting servers and now I can’t even join my friends on NA servers as they are locked. Whelp I’m out, no point playing the game anymore sadly.
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Thats not r5b
Playing from NZ, I always preferred NA servers to OCE. They’re more active and have consistent player bases. OCE servers always felt quieter and only active at night. Pings a non-issue for me. I get why people might want them, but I would still choose NA over OCE.
So prior to r5b launch in Dec 2020, what did the servers run on then?
I don’t buy the excuse that they need the latest architecture, and if that’s the case then they can tell us that themselves.
Until then, we are paying a premium for an inferior experience - if that’s OK with you, great! Go and play.
For the rest of us, we will continue to argue for fairness.