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ETisME
12627 Posts
Global play means that you can switch between servers and only can play on other servers when your own local server is down. So this is similar to what we have for SEA version right now (or worse), we can switch between SEA and NA server I guess this just means for those who have multiple accounts on different server, they don't have to use region changer | ||
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freeshooter
United States477 Posts
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NovemberstOrm
Canada16217 Posts
On November 10 2012 16:56 Big-t wrote: I have a question: The only reason why I never played on other servers is, because I heard you have lag (high ping). How will Blizz fix this issue? Blizzard can't fix that issue, it depends on where you live and your isp. | ||
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whatevername
471 Posts
On November 10 2012 17:04 ETisME wrote: No, you can do it whenever you want. It was saying even if your server is down you can connect to one that is up, not, only when your server is down can you connect to an alternative.Read it again. Global play means that you can switch between servers and only can play on other servers when your own local server is down. So this is similar to what we have for SEA version right now (or worse), we can switch between SEA and NA server I guess this just means for those who have multiple accounts on different server, they don't have to use region changer | ||
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PredY
Czech Republic1731 Posts
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nihlon
Sweden5581 Posts
On November 10 2012 17:08 NovemberstOrm wrote: Blizzard can't fix that issue, it depends on where you live and your isp. They could scrap battle.net. | ||
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LimitSEA
Australia9580 Posts
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Tapppi
Finland70 Posts
Amazing that its coming though, looking forward to getting beat up by korean golds (im high masters EU qq) | ||
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paralleluniverse
4065 Posts
Blizzard's attempt to rebrand decades old technology as if it's something amazingly new and revolutionary is both pathetic and long overdue. | ||
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BatmanTheBoss
United States28 Posts
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Blargh
United States2103 Posts
More on-topic, this is the best thing Blizzard has actually announced in ages. All they have to do now is add LAN capabilities and we'd have a good game. Sucks for those who went and spent a few bucks on a foreign account copy. More smurfs, I suppose. | ||
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Incanus
Canada695 Posts
On November 10 2012 16:56 Big-t wrote: I have a question: The only reason why I never played on other servers is, because I heard you have lag (high ping). How will Blizz fix this issue? Ping is a measure of the round trip time for a small amount of information to travel through the internet between two locations. That is, it measures how long it takes a message to be sent somewhere, and then be sent back. Vienna is about 7000km away from Toronto, so a round trip would be about 14000km. The fastest data can travel is at the speed of light, which is about 299792km/s. That means, purely limited on the speed of light, the minimum ping between Vienna and Toronto is about 50ms. Now, data on the internet doesn't travel at exactly the maximum speed of light, though it is pretty close. Combine that with the fact that the route that data takes from Vienna to Toronto isn't a straight line (it probably passes through somewhere in the UK or France first, among others) which increases the distances involved. Combine that with an increased delay every time traffic "passes through" one of these locations like France, etc. The result is a relatively high ping between Vienna and Toronto. With distances being even greater to Korea, with more places to pass through, and more potential for inefficient routing, your ping will be much higher. There isn't much Blizzard can do, beyond using optimal routing (which is usually out of their control and has a minimal effect) or discovering some revolutionary way of sending data through a wormhole that shortens the physical distance between the servers. | ||
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Liquid`Nazgul
22427 Posts
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On November 10 2012 17:08 NovemberstOrm wrote: Blizzard can't fix that issue, it depends on where you live and your isp. Well if an old program iccup for bw allowed me to play anyone in the world without latency I am pretty sure blizzard can. I don't know much about networking but I remember playing on iccup, playing verse koreans/europeans/etc and having absolutely no latency issues. Now why could this not be possible for sc2? | ||
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Incanus
Canada695 Posts
On November 10 2012 17:56 blade55555 wrote: Well if an old program iccup for bw allowed me to play anyone in the world without latency I am pretty sure blizzard can. I don't know much about networking but I remember playing on iccup, playing verse koreans/europeans/etc and having absolutely no latency issues. Now why could this not be possible for sc2? First of all, yes, you still had high latency on iccup. Second, BW was peer to peer, while SC2 is server/client based (I think), so they work very differently. | ||
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Thezzy
Netherlands2117 Posts
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Emperor
Norway68 Posts
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KristofferAG
Norway25712 Posts
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Teoita
Italy12246 Posts
On November 10 2012 17:55 Liquid`Nazgul wrote: I am sad that I am happy about this. Perfectly said lol. @Thezzy: I get about 80ms on NA (and i've played people that live both in Seattle and New York, with no noticable difference), when i normally have 30ms on EU. Kr however is completely unplayable, latency goes up to like 300 ms  | ||
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haitike
Spain2722 Posts
On November 10 2012 18:02 Incanus wrote: First of all, yes, you still had high latency on iccup. Second, BW was peer to peer, while SC2 is server/client based (I think), so they work very differently. Not too much. I used to play against Korean players (Im european) with very few ping, I could micro mutas  BW was not peer to peer, it was the lan latency plugin for chaos launcher (used in iccup, fish, etc.). Official battle.net was super laggy. | ||
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