Bynestorm

No epic flair? Mods?

Can confirm - 3van did most of the actual hard work to make this possible.

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https://imgur.com/a/Lon2J (ping from each server)

thank you!

Perfect, thank you. Will share updates here as they are available.

Quick question, I should have asked before. Are you experiencing variable/sporadic latency, rubberbanding, or anything along those lines? Or is the change in experience limited to the major change in latency?

Basically, trying to understand if your experience is "much higher latency, but stable/consistent" or if you also have degraded experience in terms of stability of your connectivity. Understanding personal anecdotes like this really helps contextualize the data on our end.

We're past the hardest part now. We finally have the database back up and fully functional. Our QA heroes are testing things atm to make sure everything survived the transition from healthy DB to dead DB to healthy DB again. Then we have a few additional steps to get everything fully back online and letting people in.

Will update soon - I'm hopeful we'll be able to open the floodgates in the very near future. Thanks so much for everyone sticking with us during this. I know this patch has been literally unplayable........

EDIT - Now it is *literally playable and it did not take as long as anticipated to get login queue drained*. Thanks again for your patience and passion.

This video is incredible. Definitely appreciate your passion, and we hear you.

We are regularly evaluating viability and logistics for new server regions, like a dedicated SEA region. Just like we stood up Brazil and Asia, and then eventually added Brazil to Xbox. I can say SEA is an active area of investigation for us. I can't give a timeline, but we absolutely want to make this happen when it makes sense to do so.

Also, a couple folks here mentioned cost/benefit analysis. That's actually not the core focus, or even a major factor in opening a new region. It's really about evaluating experience tradeoffs, impact to existing regions, etc. We are also exploring tech solutions to help make some of those tradeoffs easier to mitigate.

Thanks for being awesome.