TaylorShift wrote:Is anyone here stupid enough to actually think the location your IP originates makes a difference? The reason your ping in america is close to 100 is because you are halfway around the world. Think about it. Even if you vpn to have a France IP, all those packets still have to traverse the internet to your house. Your geographical location makes all the difference.
And as far as 7000 players making official servers laggy, 7000 concurrent players didnt even exist on retail servers.
If you pay for a VPN or this "reducethelag" service you are being had. The reason your ping will APPEAR better is because your SOURCE PING requests to the server will now originate from a euro IP, to the euro Server, however your actual connection as far as response for you will be no different, as you will still be traversing the internet to reach that VPN server, which is located, you guessed it, IN EUROPE..
Think of it like this. Say you are shipping a UPS package to Paris, France, from New York, USA. Just because you decided to ship it FROM a UPS store in FRANCE, which will make the UPS delivery time drastically shorter, you still have to get it to that UPS Store.
Paying for a VPN can have it's benefits, behind had here is a false statement in some cases. Connecting from the USA to a France VPN would be stupid, I agree, although, if you connect to a VPN close to you, instead of your ISP making hops to the Nostalrius server, your VPN connection would be making hops to the server and relaying it to you, which would give any ISP that has terrible routing to Nostalrius a much better path, significantly lowering ping in some cases. If your ISP has a good route to the server, this wouldn't be needed, but I can tell you for a fact that some connections have terrible routing and a VPN could be very beneficial.