Worst €50 spent - EVER!
Seriously, I buy the game, install it, go through the craptastic account creation process, log on, watch the crap intro with graphics tearing, endure the 5-15 seconds of response time when I click buttons, start the game and get 129,000ms latency. Yes, I literally cannot play this game. I move 10 yards and get instantly teleported back to my starting position. I can't chat because everything is 30-40 seconds delayed. I can't even click quest givers because I can't get to them!
And it's not my system specs. I can play Crysis at Ultra settings, or whatever the highest was, and I had no lag during the character selection stuff (other than the response time) and guides pop up instantly when I click them. It's clearly a client-server latency issue.
Ping times are now alternating between 5k, 100k and 10k.
And yes, I know the obvious solution is to open some more ports on my router, but I live in a dorm with 200 people and I don't even know where the routers are located, let alone know who's in charge of them. And even if I did know all that, I seriously doubt I'd get him to open some ports just because I ask him to.
For the record, I play World of Warcraft with little to no issues. I hang a bit on Connected, but I have 50-200ms once logged on.
Edit: LULZ!
Hai gusy! That's me with a latency of 133 minutes.
Edited, Nov 15th 2009 6:03am by Mazra