[REQUEST] Put the Middle East in the EU Matchmaking Region, not the Asia Region.
Hello Dear Devs,
Let me get straight to the point:
The Ping from Middle East to Asian servers is very high. in the 300-500ms region, with spikes that sometimes even go higher.
This makes the online aspect of the game unplayable for us in the Middle East, and I'm sure the Asian players that we are matched against will also have a bad experience.
My Suggestion is this:
Make it so we match make with EU region. The ping from the middle east to EU servers is a lot better. average on 100ms in my experience. (and many others from here). Now I realize that 90-130ms isn't PERFECT; but it's completely a playable range, and a better Alternative to what it's like now.
As an example of this, when "For Honor" was released, the ME region was matched with Asia, and after a week they changed it to EU matchmaking region; and It's worked great ever since.
Also I would advise against setting up a Middle Eastern server, due to the political turmoil between the countries in this region, the internet routing is very flimsy, and for example if you Set up a server in Saudi Arabia, players from many other nearby countries who want to connect to that server would still have their connection routed to Europe and back, which would effectively go against the purpose of having a server close by.
Although if you guys find a way to make it work and if there's enough of a playerbase, WHY NOT!
I'd also like to link this post I made earlier on reddit, some of the comments there (apart from the few slightly racist ones) might help support my argument.
https://www.reddit.com/r/absolver/comments/6wt1rn/request_put_the_middle_east_in_the_eu_matchmaking/
Thank You for your hard work so far!
Regards,
Dr4g
Let me get straight to the point:
The Ping from Middle East to Asian servers is very high. in the 300-500ms region, with spikes that sometimes even go higher.
This makes the online aspect of the game unplayable for us in the Middle East, and I'm sure the Asian players that we are matched against will also have a bad experience.
My Suggestion is this:
Make it so we match make with EU region. The ping from the middle east to EU servers is a lot better. average on 100ms in my experience. (and many others from here). Now I realize that 90-130ms isn't PERFECT; but it's completely a playable range, and a better Alternative to what it's like now.
As an example of this, when "For Honor" was released, the ME region was matched with Asia, and after a week they changed it to EU matchmaking region; and It's worked great ever since.
Also I would advise against setting up a Middle Eastern server, due to the political turmoil between the countries in this region, the internet routing is very flimsy, and for example if you Set up a server in Saudi Arabia, players from many other nearby countries who want to connect to that server would still have their connection routed to Europe and back, which would effectively go against the purpose of having a server close by.
Although if you guys find a way to make it work and if there's enough of a playerbase, WHY NOT!
I'd also like to link this post I made earlier on reddit, some of the comments there (apart from the few slightly racist ones) might help support my argument.
https://www.reddit.com/r/absolver/comments/6wt1rn/request_put_the_middle_east_in_the_eu_matchmaking/
Thank You for your hard work so far!
Regards,
Dr4g
Comments
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your feedback and ideas with us in such detail! We truly appreciate your suggestion in regards to matchmaking regions, we will most definitely keep it in mind when working on future updates.