Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

at first I wasn't happy reading this, but after reading a message from Hiir I don't mind that much.

The very few times where I was playing with players from EU or JP was from random shouts. Those will be replaced with the content finder and maybe I will be able to play with players I can actually communicate with

I do find it laughable that people are threatening to quit over not playing with people they already can't communicate effectively with (in 99% of cases)

Honestly it is a bit of a downer knowing the likely effect of listing servers by region, but if you stick to your region, the gameplay will be better as a result. Cant have the cake and eat it too.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

It was established to be cross server when it was first announced. Unless they've said something about changing that, yes its going to be cross server. You have the choice of setting a preferred language, but it can still check any of those servers, including NA players on JP servers.

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I guess I'll wait to see, this recent news makes me wonder if they really are still planning on doing that. You'd think Y-P would've explained that in this post but he hasn't.

I know they said they'd do it in the past, but sticking with their current architecture and adding that on seems like it wouldn't work out.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

I do find it laughable that people are threatening to quit over not playing with people they already can't communicate effectively with (in 99% of cases)

Honestly it is a bit of a downer knowing the likely effect of listing servers by region, but if you stick to your region, the gameplay will be better as a result. Cant have the cake and eat it too.

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Where did you read that?

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They're separating the servers into regions, there's no international servers,

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Incorrect. All servers are STILL INTERNATIONAL. The effect causing regionality is servers will have regions associated with them, based on their physical location. *ANY* player can still choose to be on *ANY* server.

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Where did you read that?

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Right here:

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Players will have the freedom of selecting any world they prefer.

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I swear, did you people in the thread now not read the original post. ANYONE CAN STILL CHOOSE ANY SERVER.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

I'm sure we will test the JP servers and if its worth staying on a JP server, then we can tell them that we don't really "need" the other data centers. That's just a thought though

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Yeah, sure they will throw their other servers away in the garbage.

You need to realize that it doesn't matter how much they may have improved the architecture. We will still experience worse lag with JP only data centers..

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

I do find it laughable that people are threatening to quit over not playing with people they already can't communicate effectively with (in 99% of cases)

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This isn't true for the people who may "threaten to quit", just because you can't communicate to other regions doesn't mean the ones that "might quit" can't either, chances are they can because you don't invite german and Japanese players into your linkshell is no one can communicate with them.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Incorrect. All servers are STILL INTERNATIONAL. The effect causing regionality is servers will have regions associated with them, based on their physical location. *ANY* player can still choose to be on *ANY* server.



Right here:


I swear, did you people in the thread now not read the original post. ANYONE CAN STILL CHOOSE ANY SERVER.

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You sir get all the likes :D

Great news!

Was this issue ever a poll topic? I feel like it would have been a good one.