Originally Posted by
Divinemights
There was a podcast from one of the Taiwanese publisher telling the story why FF14 end up at China instead of Taiwan.
The main reason Taiwan publisher has to gave up is due to the infrastructure of FF14 servers is too complex, costly and requires a lot physical space.
They found out at last minutes before signing the contract.
This is not some fresh new publisher, this is the same Taiwanese publisher that is hosting Traditional Chinese version of WoW.
In which they have the technology to host WoW but they can't because of frustrating FF14 server structure complexity.
The problem is not something that can be solved by buying more servers.
The core of problem is their fundamental server instructure and SE knew that