Brits Bash WoW Woes
by Mike D'Anna 
May 8th 2006 at 3:31PM
With all the issues regarding player connectivity & realm stability lately, it was just a matter of time before even the oh-so-polite British had to stand up & say something. This weekend's edition of BBC news online ran an article detailing all the damage caused by the lag monster on their side of the pond, and how it's not only homegrown gamers who are unhappy.Maybe they should stage a good old-fashioned soccer riot; that'll might really get Blizzard shaking in their boots...
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Bugs, Realm Status, Odds and ends, Blizzard, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ghostle May 8th 2006 4:34PM
Sorry to say this, but if you wanted me to feel sorry for your "lag" you should have gotten a picture with a larger ping than 234. 234 would be heaven to me on most nights. I am on what is suppost to be a server for the east coast NA time, and i do live on the east coast, and on bad nights I get about 1000-2000 ping (and yes I am on a cable connection and no i don't have viruses or spyware/addware or running anything in the background). A nice ping would be 200 (and as a rogue, lag is my main enemy). The only time I get under 100 ping is if I log on around noon when all the kids are at school. Of course its probably the server cause on another server thats suppost to be for west coasters, I can get playable pings (but its pve and I dont want to laeve my friends)
Chris May 8th 2006 5:17PM
You dont want to know what I personally think about Blizzard, after being wrongfully banned permenantly from the game for "using illegal 3rd party applications." I bought the game 6 days prior and if there was an illegal 3rd party application, it came from the disks I found inside the box the game came in. I wasted $50 on a lousy game.
jennie May 8th 2006 7:38PM
Ghostle, as a British player I can safely say that latency isn't representative. I've had over 12000ms lag on a normal day with no bandwith-hogging applications running. It's usually around 700-1000 normally, but it does get pretty bad.
Rails May 9th 2006 1:31AM
What! Why do you even bother playing? I can't deal with 100! I get 20-23ms lag. 18ish at noon when all the kiddies are at school. Maybe you all need Macs?
Stimps May 9th 2006 5:12AM
"even the oh-so-polite British had to stand up & say something."
"Maybe they should stage a good old-fashioned soccer riot"
Well done! 2 radically different British stereotypes in one paragraph! We're oh-so-polite and like a good "soccer riot" (Soccer? Soccer? It's called Football!)
I thought the BBC piece was covering the problems in general, not how it affects us on our side of the pond... as they quoted a professor from New Jersey, and an editor from tentonhammer.com... nothing about UK experiences in their piece...
Sam Mellick May 9th 2006 7:12AM
G'day mate! BY CRIKEY, US AUSSIES HAVE NO LAG AT ALL.
*Cough*
Sorry about the stereotype, but anyway - those 'Oceanic' servers? Turns out, they are based in the US, just with a time zone change.
Bummer, huh.
Although I personally don't get this "1200ms" stuff (except in exceptional circumstances), I generally average 500-600ms down a 1.5mbit/256k pipe.
Sam Mellick May 9th 2006 7:14AM
Just in case no one realizes, I am aware this article is about the UK. But they are our mother land. They may be across the pond from you yanks, but we're below the lake.
Mike May 9th 2006 10:26AM
I have 300+ ms latency on a really bad day over a DSL connection.
obo May 9th 2006 10:49PM
"Maybe you all need Macs?"
There's a dozen computers on my tracert that would disagree.