Why is everything so slow recently?

[Felendis]

It takes forever to log in to the game, images (that should be cached) take forever to load. Once I finally get in a game and the images finally load it seems fine, but sometimes it takes a few minutes and multiple refreshes just to get to the screen to search for a player. I feel like this has been going on for weeks now, maybe months. Why is this so bad?

[Ingix]

I can only guess that players are coming back from the holiday break and at the time you posted the servers would have to deal with a high volume of American players. Why the card images aren't cached is a mystery to me, but a similar report was made recently, I'll ask if something was changed there recently.