I like how someone from the crowd shouted that JP players get hit by Ifrit eruptions too, lol.
What confirmation? Watch the special event video, they state it clearly.
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They stated that there will be Regional Servers places.
They stated that we will be able to choose Regional Servers.
They did not say that we are connected to the closest Regional Server and still play with other People despite their regional servers.
What we hope is that we still able to play together and still get great latencies while still connecting to each respective regional servers.
IS CLEAR to me in a way that it will be separated. But then i do hope is the other way around.
So yea Colino-san, need a double confirmation on their statement on how their REGIONAL meant to be.
Please see Heibel's post to understand how data center structures work.
They've stated they want a word-less design and will have a cross-server content finder, so restricting current players to regional servers that are different from the servers they were playing on before would make no sense and would infuriate A LOT of people.
I'm pretty unaware when it comes to servers technical aspects, so I'd just like a clear statement from SE as to how it'll work.
From the video english translation (I don't know Japanese) I had the idea it'd be separated if you chose to, but in this thread it was explained how Data centers function, so it left me a bit ambigous as to which they were referring to.
That is all. Thank you. :)