Living in New Zealand I can tell you that in reality it's much worse - we usually get > 300ms ping to game servers in europe, best to stick with US west coast w

Living in New Zealand I can tell you that in reality it's much worse - we usually get > 300ms ping to game servers in europe, best to stick with US west coast where it's more like ~150ms. A straight line right through the earth would be great. Luckily a lot of really big games have servers in Australia now though. I miss the days where player hosted dedicated servers were the norm and you didn't have to rely on the publisher deeming you important enough to have one close to you.