Asia / Pacific server should be in Singapore Or Hong Kong, not Japan, it’s too far north for the South Asia / Pacific Players, Singapore is centre location for all Asia / Pacific players.
Two of my chinese friends who currently live on the east coast of china get about 120ms To Japan, without a VPN, with a VPN they get 60. To Singapore, they get 110-100ms without a VPN, with a vpn they get 60-70. So you’re not really affecting the main Asia playerbase. Also considering 96% of People in China live on the East side of the Hu Huanyongs Line / Heihe-Tengchong Line (黑河–腾冲线)
One of my Australian friends gets 180ms In Asia, and in singapore, he gets 110ms.
My other Aussie friend gets 280ms in Japan, and 140 in Singapore.
I get 190-210 ms without a VPN to Japan, 160-170 with a VPN, and I get 130-140ms to Singapore.
I have played with someone from India who got 120 ms in Japan, but they could get lower in Singapore aswell.
My friend in New Zealand gets the same ping to Singapore and Japan (210) Using a VPN, he gets 130-140ms to both regions.
I have two friends in Japan, One lives in Osaka, the other Tokyo, my friend in Osaka gets 70ms to Japan server, and 90 to Singapore, whilst my friend in Tokyo, gets 20ms to Tokyo, and 40-50 Singapore.
Please Consider this due to Australia literally having no lobbies going, Solo, Duos or Fives, unless it’s planned by the remaining AU players, even then, we only get like 25 people in that Game.
Also Most Australians and New Zealands dont play due to the distance of the asia region, as their ping is way too high to join, moving the region will allow more people to be able to connect, and giving others lower ping
As Mentioned in the comments, even Hong Kong would be a better place for Asia / Pacific.
Here I was hoping they’d add regions for the PS4 version… After seeing this I’m not holding my breath. If the Aussies on PC aren’t getting a good connection what hope do I have haha
Its wherever they can get a good datacentre that meet their criteria as well as follow all relevant legal stuff. Its not like a COD server where you go on a website, and buy a box and pay for a month.
No, the connection is very good, it’s just on PC, there’s no australian players in the Aussie server, we need to play asia, but the ping is very high, this is why i was suggestion for the server to be located more in the middle of Asia / Pacific.