More Roblox servers around the world

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#1

I’m a ROBLOX Developer from Brazil, been in the community for almost 10 years and i currently work for ROLVe, and it is really hard to develop games for this region (South America) since ROBLOX has no servers located in South America.

Currently i have many HUGE roblox servers exclusively for people from South America (mostly Brazilians) and it’s almost impossible to play and enjoy the time on most ROBLOX games. (still not a reason to us stop playing ROBLOX games)

Most of us from South America get over 150ms on NA servers since they’re the closest, but then, most of the fun is thrown away because of bad experiences with high ping, especially in FPS or Combat themed games.

In 2017, a known Brazilian member from DevForum ~ @Deftlock ~ posted something related to SA servers back then and also showed that Brazil was the 3rd country that most accessed ROBLOX in that year (it’s probably 4x more now).

We really need South American servers, we are a really BIG community!

Do you guys plan to do that? When? Is it happening already?

EDIT: ROBLOX has confirmed South American servers in 2021’s RDC.
EDIT 2: 2023 and no information or progress still.

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#2

I agree, Roblox needs lot more server regions, such as Turkey. I cannot get under 110 ping even in the best server for me, which is pretty bad for combat-based games. I hope they add more server regions as soon as possible, and i think this must be the first thing to be worked on before any other updates or contents. Lag has a priority and matters a lot.

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#3

I’m a developer of a soccer game, and let me tell you the ping plays a massive role in the playability of the game.

Due to the love for soccer, South America is one of the biggest player bases, however the latency is so bad, it kills the game and causes those players to experience such bad latency between when they see themselves on the their screen kick the ball and when the server and other players see the ball and vice versa.

It’s really saddening there is not even an update on the topic. If you are going to set a date, and then fail to meet it, at least tell us why or what your plans are now. Or acknowledge it…

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#4

It’s odd that I live in the UAE and didn’t get high ping