{
  "id": 8229281,
  "title": "World of Warcraft: Forever's beta is a laggy hell for some EU players (and yours truly), but there is a workaround",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/world-of-warcraft-forevers-beta-is-a-laggy-hell-for-some-eu-players",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-18T10:46:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PC Gamer",
    "slug": "pc-gamer",
    "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/wow-forever-lag-how-to-fix/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "I have been testing the beta of World of Warcraft: Forever, but my experience has been less than ideal. Launch-day queue issues aside, there is more to the problem. As it turns out, Blizzard has not taken EU-region players into consideration for beta testing. Forever's servers are located in the US, which is not a major issue for me as I am prepared to play on a high ping during the beta. However, logging in and experiencing a ping of 300, which suddenly spikes to 2000, and then getting disconnected is a different story. The solution to this problem is to use a VPN. Once I connected my VPN to a US region, my ping dropped to a cozy 100, and I no longer had any disconnection issues. Other EU players who were experiencing the same problems confirmed that using a VPN fixed their connection as well. However, the EU WoW Forever beta forums are filled with understandable outrage. Players are questioning why they should need a VPN just to get a playable connection to a game they already paid €60 for.",
  "summary": "Something's going on.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "PC Gamer",
        "title": "World of Warcraft: Forever players are reliving 2004 with hour-long queue times to get into the highly-anticipated beta",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/world-of-warcraft-forever-players-are-reliving-2004-with-hour-long",
        "published": "2026-09-17T20:43:06.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}