Now that we know that there will be regional servers

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Originally Posted by Alerith

If I'm no prompted at my "character creation" adjustments to my current character, and they instead just let me drop to Durandal, then I'll simply do nothing.

Chances are, this isn't going to have as dramatic a population impact as many people think. Many people will flock to the regional server in their area for the best Ping for dungeons, bosses, etc.

Many of us simply don't care.

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True, as I see a western audience is crying for a regional server then what else I can do...? Bring me OPEN-WORLD PVP!

Regional servers don't concern me as I live in Australia which is reasonably close to Japan anyway (it's closer than either the US or Europe regardless), so I'm probably going to just stick with a 'normal' Japanese server, unless the friends I want to join decide on an American/European server, which I sure hope they won't. :p

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Originally Posted by Alerith

If I'm no prompted at my "character creation" adjustments to my current character, and they instead just let me drop to Durandal, then I'll simply do nothing.

Chances are, this isn't going to have as dramatic a population impact as many people think. Many people will flock to the regional server in their area for the best Ping for dungeons, bosses, etc.

Many of us simply don't care.

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As I understand it we start on our existing servers and options to transfer will come in at a later date.

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Originally Posted by DubstepNinja

Yeah if you are an oceanic you more than likely have friends from all three datacenters, what are we gonna do?

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You come to a US server so I can give you a box of Moro! ( ・∀・)っ旦

Will maintenance and updates be regional also? As in not happening during peak game time?

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Originally Posted by Ticks

Will maintenance and updates be regional also? As in not happening during peak game time?

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Not sure on that, in other games that I've played all the servers go down at the same time regardless of the region which can be quite inconvenient for some players depending on timezone;;

I would move only if lag issues will be relevant on a JP server. I'm glad to start on a japanese server to test how it works. What I would miss most is the internationality of the game, that will be lost with regional servers. (In my opinion useful only for PvP events)

I'll be looking for a "International" community if my servers starts to die at certain times on the day. Waste of time and money regional servers...

I will be staying on a international based server if there is one, just a healthier community, economy, and playerbase. I really do not care about 1/5th of a second lag considering I am not into pvp at all. 15k people online a day on global servers > 5-7k people a day on regional.

If there is none designated as that then I will be forced to play on a NA server I guess. In this case I hope SE does not wait forever to do merges if the population gets bad. As soon as it falls below 3-4k players on average during prime the servers need to be merged. Anything below that and the economy will crap out like it did on 1.0.

Even with the (Auto-translate Function), there is still a language barrier. Took a JP party 10 minutes to explain I was standing in the wrong spot for the BLM body AF quest. So I think just for the sake of not upsetting any other players, and not wasting time, and not dealing with "propagation delay" feuds (is it still called propagation delay?), I'll definately be on a the server closest to my region.