Exactly which is why people are requesting EU servers.
It would be an easy thing for them to do too.
NA server is located in Amazon datacenter aswell, and Amazon got servers all around world, so why not?
If it’s not possible for Early Access, at least give us an EU server based in NA and then later on >> get one in Frankfurt Germany and simply transfer the data over.
If you want to test how much your ping is to the east coast US try http://www.cloudping.info
For me it’s 150~180 ms and I have a 100 mbit net. It will never get any better for me unless we get EU based servers.
This game is designed with low pings in mind and in Korea it’s easy to get low pings due to internet cafe’s and such. It’s also a relatively small country, but most importantly: it’s just one country.