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I like how they have Russia as the flag of Europe despite most of the country not even being in Europe, most people would use the EU flag but I guess this is CS
by tupac_speedrap 6y ago
I like how they have Russia as the flag of Europe despite most of the country not even being in Europe, most people would use the EU flag but I guess this is CS 1.6 so they are most likely a fair few Russians about.
- rightbyte 6y agoI guess it is where the server is? See Asia (Indonesian flag?) Also most of the dannish kingdom's land is not in Europe either.
- mothsonasloth 6y agoA good chunk of Russia is geographically in Europe.
- mrmonkeyman 6y agoSo is Holland's. Let's use the Dutch flag for Europe.
- de_watcher 6y agoIt's a good addition to the running joke about Valve's games that EU servers are Russia West.
- nindalf 6y agoBecame moderately proficient at Russian thanks to Valve. такая халява.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoMy kids can swear in Russian as they play CS:GO ... I enjoy when I get foreign language players of a language I know some of, it's a good way to practice IMO - wish one could choose a preferred language. I guess they don't do that because of the impact on matchmaking (mm), the mm seems crazily sub-optimal I'd love to know that logic behind it : like when you have a game of 9 people, why you abandon it rather than finding a person from the pool of 100k waiting that will play. It could be a setting "allow game requests from mm" and they could give a little xp for it - beats searching and waiting another 10mins to start a game.
- doikor 6y agoThe server is most likely in Saint Petersburg or Moscow which both are very much in Europe.
- Bayart 6y agoI'm guessing all their EU servers are in Russia. My ping was pretty high from France.
- throwaway9d0291 6y agoMost of the land isn't in Europe but most of the population is and I daresay Russians outnumber other nationalities on European servers.
- Jnr 6y agoLast time I checked - Valve has no game servers/entry nodes in Russia. Western Russia connects to Sweden or Poland. Northern European and Eastern European countries connect through the same nodes. Connections within Valve network are handled internally (since they can tune it for better latency, etc.) and you don't even know where the actual game server is hosted. So there is always a big mix of players no matter where you are in Europe. Fun thought: it depends on how much throughput can be handled by Starlink, but Valve could waste some money on it to bring players closer from further away. They already have the dynamic, latency based entry node selection set up. If they hooked up some of the internal network through Starlink, it could be amazing low latency cross-continent gaming. And games like CS:GO and Dota 2 doesn't require too much bandwidth.
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- shultays 6y agoI thought dota had one but it has been a while and can't remember if that was really the case. Assuming it is not, I wonder why? Lots of russian players, why wouldn't Valve put servers in Russia?
- trickstra 6y agoData Localization Laws: https://jsis.washington.edu/news/russian-data-localization-enriching-security-economy/ https://jsis.washington.edu/news/russian-data-localization-e...
- rapsey 6y agoRussia is and always has been considered a European country.
- computerfriend 6y agoTell that to the Vladivostokians.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoThey're well aware of it.
- crawlcrawler 6y agoI was always told Russia spans two continents.
- valvar 6y agoFrance technically spans 6 continents. It's still a European country.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoThe Russians are firmly in charge. Try asking some Turks in Russian territory whether they have an equal voice in the country compared to the Russians. Is the US more of a European country or an Amerind country? What would its geographic location suggest?
- dreen 6y agoRussia is the last remaining European Colonial Empire with their colonies still part of the original power, mostly thanks to them being geographically together.
- pixelpoet 6y agoUnless you count Alaska: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
- diegoperini 6y agoIsn't network topology is the determining factor (instead of world politics) for these naming conventions?