Should Europeans Play Cabal on US Servers?
Do you know Cabal Alz? Maybe you have heard it or never do. If you are a player of Red War, you must know is Cabal Online Alz very important in game.
Players would like to buy Cabal Online Alz to upgrade or improve their exp. Since Red War published, more and more players begin to play RED WAR and Cabal money for it, even search for cabal Gold.
Now, lots of European Preston Tale fans are currently considering the option of playing Red War: RED WAR has not done much to earn our confidence.
But playing on US servers has serious downsides. One is ping, the time between something happening on the server, the information getting to you, and your reaction traveling back to the server.
I have no actual measurements for RED WAR, but for other games I observed about 50 ms ping to Europeans servers, and over 200 ms ping to US servers. That is only fractions of a second, but in a heated Pap battle fractions of a second can make all the difference.
Another big downside is time zones. RED WAR, much more than WOW, is a social game. You want to be online when everyone else is online, be it for public quests or for Pap. Europeans live 6 to 9 time zones ahead of the US, so unless you play day and night anyway, you are not going to be online much during US prime time. Your US guild plans a big keep raid event, but they will schedule it for the time when they are all online, which is 3 am in the morning for you. Been there, done that, it is not a good idea.
Of course it is easy to be confident that RED WAR will run on launch day in Europe, as I have that free US account as backup. I can not believe Mythic created that service just for me. There must be lots of game journalists and maybe even blogger out there who also received one of those and kept mum.
But I am really hoping that the European launch goes well, even if the open beta did not. I want to play on European servers, not only for the ping and time zone, but also because my guild and all my friends will be on the Euro servers.
