I'm every upset about this. One of the main things that brought me to this game was a single server instance with people from all around the world playing on it.
I know it's a difficult decision and I hope it turns out well. I'm from Europe and getting about 140 ms ping now, but with lag spikes up to 1000 ms from time to time.
Thus I'll be on the EU server. Personally I welcome the decision.
Definitely a bad idea. Youre better off keeping a large community on one server, rather than 2 small communities on two servers.
For mine, .eu people are whingers, as are .us people when they play on .eu servers. Twitch based combat doesnt need a sub 100 ping to compete. For years I have played on pings ranging from 200ms to 450ms, in twitch based combat games, and have remained extremely competitive. Rather than whinging about your ping, you simply have to learn how to use it, its that easy.
Dividing a population that is not too large
And bad for everyone
Add Cost to another server to a company with limited resources and already risky
Frankly, I agree that for most people living in Europe will be happy with lower ping
I believe this decision will damage the game more than help
poll would be great but only for subscribers
it can be to easy manipulated
btw pings around 150 in mmorpg aren't that bad
escpecially when EU and US players have diffrent time zones so they only little bit overlap each other
Here's one argument which may stfu some of you.
Have you ever played Darkfall? Remember the sieges between NA and EU clans? When one clan was asleep excluding some jobless addicts, and another could take their city easily?
Same would happen here in Xsyon. Would you want to wake up one morning and see your town gone?
Failed argument when you dont even know how war mechanics are going to work. The only talk of anything so far has about extended land to, not main tribal lands, so what youre saying isnt even going to be possible as far as we know.
my ping is always around 200...and this sucks in a full loot mmo
But Tribe-wars will only be possible in a few months. Why not waiting so long and see, how the populationof the game is developing? If it is high in a few months, there would be almost nothing what would speak against an European server. If it would be quite low, it would be senseless to create a new server. Moreover i think it would be better for the game to keep the community on one big servers. In my opinion, the pros in that case would be higher than the cons.