How do you do this? What’s the IP?
Just run that, it runs pings to all of amazon’s server centers.
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Oh…You mean pinging to Amazon services. That’s not necessarily reflective of what your ping to the game server will be. I ping 35 here to US east but had a ping of 90 to the NewWorld server I played on so…not the same.
best compared to what? population? sure. there is at least twice the population of people living there than in the west but that doesn’t change from game to game, only if the game is good or not affects the amount playing. Ping? no. I dont know where all this doomsaying came from but it is quite amusing. The east having more players is like finding a banana in a grocery store, it is basically expected and normal.
I have seen people comparing it to new world E and W servers which is amusing because of how sketchy it has been received by players.
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Im so sad because I was hoping it would be like albion where its just one mega server for NA. I played in NA East for New World and have my whole guild hopping over to lost ark soon, but also playing from LA where my hometown friends want to play along with OCE friends from past games. It’s such a hard decision bc I wanted my entire group to meet and play with each other. So excited for this game though!
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is it possible to cross server join or invite between West and east servers?
So is that mean you will be playing to NA West? Since majority of OCE will choose NA West due to ping…
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West will be still be very packed, especially without OCE region, in fact I doubt they’ll leave it at 3 servers, they’ll have to add 1 or 2 more for sure.
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thats a decision ill have to figure out in time seeing where all my groups are going or if i could convince them to play in west. i would love to be part of NA West though for my ping and pvp to my full potential. we’ll just have to see!
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If you look at new world server statistics NA east has 3-4x more active players at any given time than NA West servers. One would assume that ratio would hold true for Lost Ark as well
NW is a dying MMORPG… When LA release it will get worse… not dead but required ‘special IV line for infusion’ to survive… the point is using NW as example is not too accurate 
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It has no relevance to the point I was making, which was about population ratios between east and west.
How would a dying game represent hype game?
Besides NA East will get 6 servers to choose from at launch whereas NA West only limited to 3 servers (one or 2 of the server will be populated by OCE players)
The ratios are skewed to begin with. Say you live in Texas or somewhere in the middle of the country. Your ping to east or west, doesn’t matter. You’re better off choosing whatever region is going to be bigger and healthier. So, they’ll choose to go east, because why wouldn’t they? So really, you have 2/3 of the country going east simply “because”.
In that instance, yes it’s better to go east. But if you live in WA, your west coast ping will be < 30, and your east coast ping will be > 100. It makes no sense really to go east, but I suppose people will.
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It is not, they will be region locked.
As I recall there was a OCE server for NW so they will be added to the NAW pop. Also using numbers from a dead game probable isn’t the best thing.
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Thank you 
Never had a ping higher than 80 playing any east server on any game.
Honestly, this game is going to be massive and queues will be heavy. I’d recommend picking the closest region to you and the smallest server. You’ll still have a bustling community no matter what.
My biggest problem is the difference in servers. Tell me which will have a more active auction house, US East or US West.