Do gamers in Thailand work around high ping?

I would like to play some reactive games that can be badly affected by high latency. Specifically at the moment, I'm trying Throne and Liberty. It has servers in Japan, Europe, US West and US East. With or without VPN, I'm seeing a ping of 200-300 in almost all of those regions (I was hoping Japan would be much better). The game does not have an in-game latency counter but through the Performance Monitor of windows I see the TCP connections of the game ranging often at 250+. Some people mention software like ExitLag, but others say that it doesn't do anything more than a VPN and any numbers it will give you on its interface will not be real or reflected by the Performance Monitor. There's no closer (distance wise) server than Japan to Thailand. How do gamers in Thailand work around such issues? Is there something I'm missing?