[2020] Advocating on behalf of our EU/Russian friends

Guys,

I hear what you are saying, but we can't just "flip a switch" and change siege schedules on a moments notice -- much less change the underlying system that relies on them.

What we can do, right now, is launch an EU campaign in addition to the NA one. The reason that we didn't plan to do this is because we're trying to stress the server so that we can find and fix issues that only surface under heavy player load.

But I get it. If you guys want a second campaign, we'll prop one.

Here is my only request: since we're not going to concentrate folks down to one location, it would be very helpful if you guys would try to log in during siege windows to increase the load so that we can still get the testing that we need. Server performance testing is critical to us being ready for beta, and I want us to get to beta as soon as possible.

If you'll help us get the numbers during prime time, then we can still achieve our testing objective, and everybody wins.

Thanks,

Todd

The EU campaign will have siege windows centered on EU prime time, as they always have.

We're asking for players in both regions to try and log in to their servers during their respective siege windows, so we can get more player concurrency and see how the servers hold up.

Todd