This has gotten totally out of hand. The lags spikes are back, and it is completely ruining the game. It is driving my blood pressure through the roof and subjecting my poor dog to some of the filthiest language she has ever heard. This always happens in the days following a content update. The Dev's always say 'the server has no problems handling the amount of players' but this must be only normal day to day demand, as SOMETHING clearly can not handle the natural influx of old and new people playing and updating when new content comes out.
Don't know if it is their servers, or a flaw causing the game to get get overwhelmed, or perhaps my iPad and 24 mb/s FIOS connection are too outdated, but constant 25 second pings is no way to play the game. I would really like to know if this is a problem they are actively working on, or if the solution is to 'take a couple weeks off every time we update the content'.