EA FC 26 servers in Central Asia

EA Sports,

EA FC 26 is effectively unplayable for many players in Central Asia due to extremely high latency. From Tajikistan and neighboring countries, our ping consistently exceeds 140–180 ms because the game connects us to European servers.

This is not a minor inconvenience. In competitive modes, such latency completely breaks gameplay: input delay, inconsistent player movement, delayed passes and shots, and unfair matches against players with 20–40 ms ping. Skill becomes irrelevant when network delay decides the outcome.

Central Asia is home to millions of players across Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. Many of us actively spend money on Ultimate Team and engage daily with EA FC. Despite this, we are forced to play under conditions that would be unacceptable in regions with local servers.

Other publishers already operate regional servers or optimized routing for this area. EA’s absence here shows a clear regional inequality in online experience. We are paying the same price for the game and in-game content, yet receiving a significantly inferior service.

We expect EA to take concrete action:

Deploy dedicated servers in Central Asia (e.g.,Tajikistan or Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan), or

Provide proper regional routing to reduce latency to acceptable levels.

Ignoring this issue will continue to push competitive players away from EA FC. We want to enjoy fair online gameplay, not fight network delay every match.

This is a serious and long-standing problem, and it requires a real technical solution, not generic support responses.