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Seasoned Ace

Re: REASONS I stopped playing

@Midnight9746 The "servers" you have listed are only the datacenters which determine the region you will play.
But using Dalls Iowa St.Louis will result in literally the same gameservers you will be send to (all over North America).
You can check that with tools like the windows builtin resource monitor or LiveTCPUDPwatch while you are in the legend selection before drop ship.

For Europe, there is UK, NL, BEL, GER datacenters ... but also french, russian, swedish, ect. gameservers. and it doesnt matter which datacenter you connect to , the result will be likely the same EU gameservers on every datacenter.

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Midnight9746
Hero+
1 year ago
@r1ggedgame Well, if the datacenters connect to certain servers, then the servers that the datacenters connect me to have the issues described.
r1ggedgame
Seasoned Ace
1 year ago
@Midnight9746 thats likely the case.
A lot of people still think, the datacenter they connect to, also represents the gameserver/area which is simply not fact.
The Naming of the Datacenters is simply misleading and should rather be Europe 1-7 , North America x-y , Asia x-y ect.
Midnight9746
Hero+
1 year ago
@r1ggedgameYeah, its clearly misleading as I've always thought the data centers was a fancy way of saying "a set of servers within an area". The only indication we get in terms of the region is the name of the data centers. London isn't going to be in the North America region, but rather in the region of Europe.
r1ggedgame
Seasoned Ace
1 year ago
@Midnight9746 hm if i think back S3/S4 ... it would send you all around the world , that datacenter didnt really matter back then 😉
Midnight9746
Hero+
1 year ago
@r1ggedgame More or less how it works.
Most games I've played have data centers for NA, EU, SA, and AS, where it only connects you to the servers within the respective region.
I wonder if its because Apex tries to shorten que times or if its just a matchmaking thing.