Turbine Executive Producer Athena “Vyvyanne” Peters has bad news for Lord of the Rings Online players in Europe: Your game servers aren’t moving to Amsterdam as promised after all, meaning they’ll stay in New Jersey alongside the North American servers.
“Now that we have been in the new datacenter in New Jersey on the new hardware for several weeks now, we have learned a lot about how our service works with domestic and international ISPs,” she writes on the official forums. “Early efforts at tuning have been showing progress, leading to measurable improvement in latency for both US and EU players. Based on this early information we believe that players will be best served by us focusing on improvements to the new datacenter, rather than moving the EU servers to Amsterdam.”
Turbine says it is focusing it efforts on a new routing system that will improve performance for players in both regions.
