A partnership with a ping reducer would be great but it's not going to solve all the latency issues. To put this into perspective I play from the UK with about 180ping on average. Most of the time I don't use or need a ping reducer. A lot of people blablabla at me about how can I play with such lag, but most of the time I don't feel it. I'm just used to it. It does not bother me.
When I run a ping reducer, I often find that it helps a little, but it also causes a lot of problems. Sometimes those programs make things worse... don't ask me why. I've tried lowerping, wtfast, battleping... and well. Since the data center move the servers have felt sluggish anyway.
A lot of people are used to a different kind of software too. So there's that. Although it wouldn't hurt to set up such a thing (infact I think it'd be great) I don't think a ping reducer is going to solve all the issues.
Plus there's a reason games are normally split into US/Latin america/SEA/EU. You're never going to be lag free.
I do however think iRO needs to think about changing their ISP. What I'm saying is the solution runs deeper than pingzapper.
Regarding advertising... motivate the playerbase. That's free advertising.
And start damage mitigation now. Every passing week is saturating the server more and more making it worse and worse for incoming players. imo we might be past a point of no return but that's not a reason to put off taking action. Get a trade in for surplus gear/cards, lock down castle loots for the rest of the year, figure out how to add value to rewards again, come up with an action plan and launch it with the new year.
Oh, cheater policy when? That really needs to be addressed, Classic is not like renewal in this regard and pretending it isn't happening is pretty harmful when the GMs are now scared to take action because of perceived biases. It's sick that the community have bullied the GM team into inaction via tantrum throwing so if that's what they want and they are adverse to certain illicit activities being reported, just legalize it already!
Edited by Xellie, 13 December 2015 - 05:25 AM.