There used to be game server for EU only. With the decrease of the number of players it was tho shut down and now gameserver is one and the same for everyone. In the past, time of waiting to get a game was up to 20-30 minutes (unless you knew what to do - usually you could make it shorter). Now we mostly couldn't play at all because there would be no 16 players (20 in the past, as there were games 10vs10) of some minimal required eff range at one time to create a battle. Maybe it would be ok on full eq 30 level games, but only there.
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