Many of us on the West coast are experiencing 3000 ping spikes very frequently. It makes PvP completely unplayable in a competitive sense. If I have to put up a block and it's 3 seconds late, I'm dead. This is happening ALL the time. Unless the game was intended to be a button mash fest where you just pray for luck, I'd say the game is now unplayable in the way it was intended to be played.