Ok, so on and off for the last past 6 months the game experiences network issues for different regions.
At least a few days a week (from 2 to 4 days) there's prolonged periods of time where the overall latency to the servers is incredibly high, this can shift between different regions, US regions seem to be unaffected for the most part.
The use of a VPN can alleviate some of the mayor latency but its not a good option either.
It is not user's regional DNS provider issue since most US services that are not PG server respond with consistent and expected latencies.