» Wed Mar 26, 2014 5:36 am Given that the devs are reporting no noticeable lag or latency being experienced by non NA subscribers playing on the NA beta server:
North America is fully operational and our European datacenter will be soon, but we have found during our beta tests that the location of these servers is not going to affect the gameplay experience. Our testing has now confirmed that millions of players from Europe (and beyond) can play on our North American server and experience ESO as it was designed—without latency or lag problems. (Please note that users in our last scale test had lag issues, especially in Cyrodiil, but this was a game bug, not a location issue – all players, no matter where, experienced that particular problem). So, regardless of a player’s location or the datacenter being used, the confirmed efficiency of our platform architecture will prevent anyone from enjoying a gameplay advantage. And as both datacenters become fully operational, we will continue to add capacity to meet the demands of gamers worldwide.
We will make sure that no matter where you live, every player in North America, Europe, Oceania and many places beyond, will have a polished, lag-free launch experience. Based on the existing number of our beta signups and because we anticipate that the ESO community will continue to grow after launch, we plan to add capacity to keep up with demand in both our North American and European datacenters. The North American and European megaservers will first be hosted in North America. This gives us a more efficient way to address any platform issues that may arise at launch. After the initial launch phase is over, we will move the European megaserver to the European datacenter – but this will be a seamless migration for users, without additional downloads, logins or action required.
What megaserver do you think you will play on if you're an English speaking European?
In other games I've played the developers have tended to provide separate servers for French and German speakers which tends to cut out much of the frustration introduced by a multi-lingual environment. In TESO however it looks like we will all be pitched in together. Whether or not separate chat channels are available for all the various languages is anyone else seriously considering migrating back to the NA megaserver prior to release?
