how people on opposite sides of the earth can play video games together seemlessly when these games require split second actions

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how people on opposite sides of the earth can play video games together seemlessly when these games require split second actions

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Answer 1

They cannot, this is why games have servers on continents, ever regional severs based on the use-cases. Most games have visible servers, while many others have invisible ones.

In games with selectable servers it’s possible to play with people in different continent but person closest to the server will have latency advantage