Is 300 ping playable?
Depends on the content. I wouldn’t touch PvP, or basically any content that requires a very fast response time with a higher ping. It simply puts you at a disadvantage.
Personally I would not play a game with 300 ping.
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yes it is.
While league of legends if unplayable with 150ms, wow works fine till 400ms, after that it just gets terrible.
matter of fact I play mostly with 360ms (cause other country) and I do quite well.
Pvp puts you a little at a distadvantage, but works still ok.
pve is no problem at all.
Mostly interrupts are a real problem
I’m in another country and I get 10-12ms.
Your connection sounds bad in some way.
Anything above 150ms is getting really late reaction so you will be in disadvantage in most things you do.
try playing on EU servers while living in asia
if you think 10ms is possible, then you don;t know anything about how data speed works :\
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You mean another continent, I don’t.
still qualifies as living in another country.
I pretty sure you are lucky that you maybe live in france while the servers are in france or something like that.
You have to know where the servers are to actually say you play from another country
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I am in the UK and the servers aren’t, therefore a different country.
Edit: Perhaps people should say distance rather than country.
then it is still surprising that you get 10ms ping
when I am back home and play “near” my servers, I still got 20-30ms ping while i should have a quite good connection.
probably the routing just not good. but playing from a far distance results in a high ping no matter how good your connection is.
apart from that you cannot really influence your “connection” a lot anyways
I use a vpn to another internet provider which gives me 350ms if i use my original connection to connect to wow I got 5000ms and disconnects all day. guess to many packages lost
I got 10-12 last time I checked, I’ll do it now.
I’m getting 14 Home and 16 world on draenor, 16 home and 18 world on Argent Dawn, 14 home and 16 world on Stormrage.
Edit: All the realms I’ve looked at are all similar latency, from different data centres too.
Generally for games every 80ms is about 1 frame diferrence. So not mega bad, got a mate in australia at 300ms who gets by fine. 300ms is half a second delay on everything you do. Include skills, mechanics etc. So you’ll get hit by quite a lot of stuff before you cam even see it.
Real answer No. Everything is delayed and people will kick you because of it.
Everything above 100 is not ok!
Real answer yes it is playable.
But it is more important than it is steady there and not just spikes, spikes are FAR worse than a steady 300.
Incorrect 500ms is half a second 1000ms is 1 second.
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Peaked D3 on NA in s5 from EUW with a solid 120-160.
Know a couple of rank 1 players that played at 200-300 ping.
Game is still playable, just abit harder.
The same goes for pve, infact pve is entirely doable with 300 ping.
It just requires much more work and understanding of the game.
Hint : use spell queueing and preplan your path.
I daresay playing on the US servers back in the day is what gave me and my friends our current skillset 
However ping feels like it affects the game even more now so I don’t know how the game would fare with 300 ping.
I live 3000 miles from server and get from 120 to 250, sometimes around 300. It’s playable for me at 300, but probably because I’m used to 200 ish on avg.
I mainly wpvp, I don’t feel disadvantaged, but I prob am a bit. If I was to somehow go from really good ms back to 300, I’d prob really notice the diff. But ignorance is bliss!
It’s playable… But you can feel it in certain situations where you need to react quickly. For example interrupts on short cast times…
But for the most part it’s doable…