So I thought I'd give DDO a try. Nice character creator, graphics are ok too. But my latency is horrible. I'm used to around 20 in TF2 and in DDO I was between 500 and 1500.

Anyone knows about any european servers opening soon? Seems pretty dumb by the DDO devs to put so much work into the changes, and then pretty much reduce the target audiences to north americans.

it’s nothing to do with the devs of DDO, DDO EU and DDO NA have different publishers
codemasters which publishes DDO in the EU did not want to go through with the f2p method so there is nothing we can do about it.

Originally posted by SgtFrog

it’s nothing to do with the devs of DDO, DDO EU and DDO NA have different publishers
codemasters which publishes DDO in the EU did not want to go through with the f2p method so there is nothing we can do about it.

Thanks for the information.
Well, I guess I will give it another try every now and then, but if the latency is always this high... I don't really like to hum some tune out of boredom between hitting something and see it beeing hit, not do I feel like subscribing to the european version yet.

Originally posted by maji

Originally posted by SgtFrog

it’s nothing to do with the devs of DDO, DDO EU and DDO NA have different publishers
codemasters which publishes DDO in the EU did not want to go through with the f2p method so there is nothing we can do about it.

 

Thanks for the information.
Well, I guess I will give it another try every now and then, but if the latency is always this high... I don't really like to hum some tune out of boredom between hitting something and see it beeing hit, not do I feel like subscribing to the european version yet.

I play on the US servers from Europe and dont have high latecy. Check so you are not dowloading anything, especially the Turbine dowload manager can cause latency if its uploading stuff.

That Pandora downloader still runs in the background, even when you are actually playing the game.  Use Add/Remove programs to get rid of it.  My latency is fine, btw.

Ah sorry, you were right. The downloader thingy was working in the background without me having noticed it. Once I killed the process my latency went from an unplayable 500 to 1500 to an acceptable ~100. ^^

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Originally posted by maji
So I thought I'd give DDO a try. Nice character creator, graphics are ok too. But my latency is horrible. I'm used to around 20 in TF2 and in DDO I was between 500 and 1500.
Anyone knows about any european servers opening soon? Seems pretty dumb by the DDO devs to put so much work into the changes, and then pretty much reduce the target audiences to north americans.

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See the american servers as an internasional server :)

Originally posted by SgtFrog

it’s nothing to do with the devs of DDO, DDO EU and DDO NA have different publishers
codemasters which publishes DDO in the EU did not want to go through with the f2p method so there is nothing we can do about it.

Are you sure it is because Codemasters are against the F2P? If you could provide links, I would be grateful.

I do have a nasty feeling it is not Codemasters but Atari that is preventing this.

Atari is the one that pretty much decides everything concerning DDO Europe. I got aware of this when I read the lawsuit from Turbine against Atari.

So if you are going to blame Codemasters, I would love to see some proof of it, because I'm not sure it is CM that is the culprit.

This is a snippet from an article when DDO:Stormreach was first going to be launched:

http://www.gamershell.com/companies/codemasters/261660.html

"Codemasters will be responsible for hosting, community management, technical support and billing when the game launches...."

So, without any change in agreements, and aside from any decisions concerning the physical hosting of the game on CM servers, CM probably have no say (from a publishing / copyright standpoint) as to whether DDO:U should be launched in EU.  If anything, CM would probably welcome any possibility of getting more subs into the game.

Perhaps therefore, CM are rightly remaining quiet and not getting involved.   And like the rest of us, they are waiting for the law suit to be dealt with.