Europe / German Server Ping Rates

[Kevin]

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Ok, now tell me again, that Blizzard is not to balme for the latency issues. One has to give them credit though, that at least they start admit to it.

Since lags primarliy occur during primetime playing hours 18:00 to 22:00 I would have been really surprised if it wouldn't be a Blizzard server side issue.
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OK I will.

They said they are focusing investigations on their own to stuff. That doesn't mean they will find anything. There is nothing else they can really do with the ISP's. Since the US servers did have server and local hardware lag issues I would think that they should be easily able to rule those old issues out. I know that not all servers are created equal but I would imagine that if it really was server issues that unless the US and Euro servers were vastly different that we would be having more issues over here, and we really haven't had much in the last few months. I'm not saying they still don't have a prolem, but I have friends in Europe and they have internet problems with more than just WoW.

Peak hours for the game are also peak hours for internet traffic in general. More traffic on the net is going to cause more problems with WoW. If the problem is ISP related it also makes sense that you see less lag in non peak hours.

So I'm not completely absolving Blizzard here but since there is more than just WoW affected I don't think most of the issue is their fault. I've got a feeling that the investigation of their own stuff won't really turn up much but I could be very wrong.