Quote (laztheripper @ Feb 21 2016 10:41pm)
What worrywart said is correct. If you think merging the realms is a good idea you are retarded. Electricity is not magic. It takes time aka "ping" for a signal to travel great distances. If you force asians to connect to a game server in the us, you can expect ping over 800ms or about a full second FOR EVERY ACTION not including lag spikes and added delays from wifi, etc... It would be unplayable. And before you go telling me technology has come a long way, please refrain. I majored in industrial electronics and you can take my word when i say the only thing that can make ping remotely better is a very cold wire and/or fiber optic cables. That is why even google has servers in every country to make sure everyone has good ping. Path of exile has servers all over too, and they are by no means outdated. Its not a matter of how much money or time or man hours. Oh and a gigabit internet connection doesnt change your ping. The payload is just bigger if want/need it. Its like two cars that go at the same speed and reach destination at the same time. Cept one of them is a huge fuckin truck that can carry way more "data". People dont understand getting gigabit connections wont make ping better and wont make a game run any faster.
whole fucking rant wasted.
they're talking about giving characters the option to swap realms. Like you choose on log in which realm you want to go on. Not all servers hosted on US.