Greetings from the land of the rising sun,
I would like to request additional servers in the Asia region.
As someone playing from Japan on a daily basis, I happened to notice that every time I play Sea of Thieves I have a ping between 160 and 320ms (and with every time, I literally mean EVERY TIME) which makes me believe it keeps connecting me to NA servers as I always run into American pirates.
Here comes the point where I start to assume things, but please hear me out. Having development knowledge with Microsoft Azure (and I assume Rare uses Microsoft Azure to host). I think Rare should be able to open servers for people playing in the Asia region.
As Sea of Thieves starts to involve more PVP content with the introduction of Reaper voyages and also the arena in the near future. I find myself struggling a lot with the latency when I'm up against NA players, which puts me in an unfair disadvantage. 2 To 4 consecutive pistol/shotgun shots show hit indicators on screen, but damage doesn't sync properly because enemy player refuses to die without the need of bananas. I get called out names for being bad, for missing my shots or swings and frankly I'm getting very tired of that.
I'm using the fastest Ethernet connection in Japan which offers 1Gbps and usually have 9ms on Japanese servers in games such as Overwatch or Battlefield 5. Could you please consider scaling up servers also in the Asia region. Thank you in advanced.
Yours sincerely,
A concerned sushi roll.
