Ping Unfairness

[gobbly2100]

Do you think about ping or does it not bother you aslong as it is not through the roof?

I am interested to know if many here are the kind to blame their ping on why they did not get the kill and such.

[Ghos7]

I don't care about ping, as long it doesn't take a whole minute to move a few feet, or everything seems like slow motion even though it's not.

[theredraven]

as long as the ping isn't tooooo high, aka. things laggy

[zeekgenateer]

There should be a auto kick for really high pings otherwise gameplay will be really bad.

[187 Phantom]

that depends on how the game handles ping.
in some games u can actually get an advantage by making your ping spike temporarily.
the best way to handle it imo is make the other players seem to move faster when you have high ping instead of the other way around.

[Grind]

hopefully people can't take advantage of lag like in WoW where people teleport all around you so you can't even get one hit off as they stab away. Thats so anoying.

[Dynatics]

Looking at the fact that Webzen has so much experience with MMO's i don't think you'll have to worry about ping alot.
The most ping related issues are 'your' issues i.e.: low bandwith or a bad connection.
And there will be a lot of 'instanced' places.
This is not some new company making an MMO, this is Webzen we are talking about, so please give them some credit and lets start talking & discussing about interesting things other than to worry about ping issues.

-Dynatics,

[MazerK]

My ping is horrible even if the server is next-door to me, so i'm not too worried. I'm also assuming there's going to be seperate servers for each region, like for North America, Europe, Asia, etc.

[187 Phantom]

Originally Posted by Grind

hopefully people can't take advantage of lag like in WoW where people teleport all around you so you can't even get one hit off as they stab away. Thats so anoying.

ya thats prety much an example of what i was talking about, some games handle ping in a way that is unfair to the players who have a good connection.

[Grind]

I'm sure they have something that will make it ok. It is an FPS so i'm sure it will handle it self differently than the standard MMORPG.

I'm pumped to see some crazy battles!!!

[Grim_Reaper]

I think that in a lot of cases (especially where ping gets really bad) ping can affect the outcome of a battle. I think that Huxley will do ok though...

[Tartay]

i doubt that ping will be much of a problem as that will most likely be handled pretty well by webzen.

Id be more worried about FPS. Hopefully I wont have to worry about it much as I will be building a computer for this game before it comes out, but what happens when there are 80+ people in one battle zone? Any computer's FPS will drop some when the entire screen is made up of players running around firing off rounds at each other.

[Decent_xVICIOUSx]

has anyone played bf2 you alwasy see sum moron foriegner with a ping of 400 and sum other morons dl p0rn that lagg the server and yet they know ther laggy and still try to play and the server crashes ther should be a limit for area such as midwest east coast west coast and out of country ping limits to make everythin insync as to not screw the servers and make em crash

[Cataklysm]

Originally Posted by zeekgenateer

There should be a auto kick for really high pings otherwise gameplay will be really bad.

agreed. i run a CS:S server, and i love auto kick

[CarnaGe]

Originally Posted by MazerK

My ping is horrible even if the server is next-door to me, so i'm not too worried. I'm also assuming there's going to be seperate servers for each region, like for North America, Europe, Asia, etc.

sure that would be good, although i don't like the thought of being excluded from my US friends, since i live in Sweden..

Although I do blame ping faulty ESPECIALLY when you fire 10 clips of bullets in your opponent (Rainbow Six: Las Vegas), and they just ignore it somehow, jump off for like 10 feet, get up behind you but seem to be around the corner, but shoots you anyway. That's the point where i scream "WHAT THE *monkeymonkey*?!" People that host games and don't even have enough bandwith to even support a two player co-op, should not be in the world of online gaming. Laggy lobbies buggers me like hell.

cheers

[MazerK]

I don't see why people are jumping to the conclusion they'll be excluded from anything with different regional servers, since I don't think Webzen will force us to play only on the nearest server. If there's different servers, we'll be able to go on any one we choose.

Most people will play on their local servers, since they'll have the benefit of having a better ping than on another server. But if someone in Europe wants to play on a US server, I doubt anything will prevent them from doing so.

[Decent_xVICIOUSx]

hopefully they will host servers that get constant service and a good connecton

[Scully]

In FPS games ping matters alot. Sure, I blame my ping when it's high enough But it's usually just a lame excuse noobs uses

[skizm]

I'm not worried about ping at all...It's the requirements for the game that I am worried about.