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  1. 04-01-2011 04:43 PM #1
    Avarice
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    Segregated Servers

    Everyone wants them, but no one wants to admit it. So here you go boys and girls; debate to your heart's content.
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  2. 04-01-2011 04:48 PM #2
    Alhanelem
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    No one wants them, but everyone wants to admit it.

    (I love it when people start a topic but have nothing to say...)
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  3. 04-01-2011 04:51 PM #3
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    Joined servers are one of the best things about this game, if they segregated I would be gone in a heart beat.
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  4. 04-01-2011 04:51 PM #4
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    my LS and I would move to a JP onry server, so we could have free reign over everything during NA prime time while all the JPs are sleeping.
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  5. 04-01-2011 04:59 PM #5
    Avarice
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
    (I love it when people start a topic but have nothing to say...)
    herp derp?
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  6. 04-01-2011 05:32 PM #6
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    As someone who doesn't even play anymore, i'd still have to cancel my account if SE ever did something so stupid.
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  7. 04-01-2011 05:42 PM #7
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    Idk.. I've played MMO's with regional servers (they aren't called segregated because people are afraid of that word lol)

    I'd have to say i prefer playing on a server where i know everybody speaks the same language as me.. I'm not xenophobic or anything.. it just can be frustrating trying to communicate with others who don't understand you.

    A lot of the time people just aren't willing to put in the effort to communicate too.. most dont enjoy the novelty of struggling to communicate basic game concepts.. autotranslate leaves a lot to be desired.

    For the most part jp's stick to jp's and NA / EU stick to themselves....

    I mean i've been invited to a few jp parties.. just like a few jp's have joined my parties..

    For the most part they prefer to stick to people they can understand... game is more enjoyable when you can have a conversation with the people you are playing with too ^^

    I also saw a lot less korean / chinese / w/e other rmt there are on regional servers.... though that probably wouldn't help the japanese because they are in the same region as most of the rmt haha.

    Also having servers in a region can help with regional ingame events... I'm sure most japanese don't care about halloween.. just like most NA / EU don't care about the cherry blossom festival... Regional servers can spend more time on more focused regional events.

    Not to mention less latency / lag time when the server is actually in the region is a big bonus too.

    However, actually setting up a regional server system at this stage in FFXI wouldn't be worthwhile imo.

    Regional servers are something that should be done from the start of a game.. otherwise there will be people who are upset at being separated from people from another region.. because some people do try to communicate... although it is a small percent of the server from what i've seen.

    The game has bigger issues than all regions being squished together imo.. and I would prefer they spend energy on those than a regional server gimmick that would add little value to the game....

    For the most part JP's ignore NA and the other way around.... and i serously doubt they would spend money to put a server on a boat and send it to America or Europe just to fix the latency issue...
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  8. 04-01-2011 06:05 PM #8
    RAIST
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    sounds like you just had some bad luck with JP players. Sorry to hear that. There are jerks on both sides of the the big pond--as well as the little one. Personally, I've had a lot of luck with the various cultures in the game. About 1/3 of my friends list aren't even in NA. Some I manage to muddle through with my limited rusty French and Spanish from what little I remember learning 20+ years ago in school, and some I can pretty much only talk with effectively through auto-translate--but we still manage to get together and do stuff like Aby wins, magian trials, and good old fashioned xp parties.
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  9. 04-01-2011 06:12 PM #9
    Flunklesnarkin
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    Yah.. there are more issues involved with regional servers other than just cultural differences...

    I think the biggest being server latency....

    Regional servers can be a good thing.... I just don't think it would do much good to implement it in ffxi...

    It's more something you would set up when first releasing a MMO.
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  10. 04-01-2011 06:20 PM #10
    Neika
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    One of the things I like about this game is that I can play with ppl from all over the world. Regional servers....no thanks.
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