[Sign petition ] Real EU servers based in EU need signs support the cause.

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Originally Posted by Zaels

Because they totally can't merge two underpopulated servers if this so-called exodus takes place.

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Merging servers would give FF14 the connotation of failing regardless whether it is or isn't. Thus, that would be a no-no and hurt them more than help.

Imagine potential new customers, "I heard they had to merge servers already." "Oh really? This game must not be doing well."

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"We need our own server." <SE: Does nothing.> (Players stick around or leave.)

In both instances you have loss of business, but the later already has your business. Under normal circumstances it is cheaper to keep a customer than get a new one. However with the PS4 market opening up it wouldn't be worth the risk of deterring new customers and generating even more work for them. Plus there is a high chance it is the PLAYERS ISP's route to the servers. I know some people in Austria/Germany who play fine w/o fiber or ping zapper and don't have lag issues unless everyone else is getting them due to the server taking a crap. Then here in the U.S. people have fiber and need ping zapper to fix their lag, due to a bad routing path or ISP issue. Yes, EU players must cross a big pond to access the servers. Does this mean the high packet loss is due to SE? Nope. When I visited family in the holiday(s),still in the US, I had 300 ping because of bad wiring in that city.

I support this.

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Originally Posted by StarMarmot

Bit shady to call some servers EU servers, when in fact they're in the same place the NA ones are.

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They did explain before release that they were labeled as "EU" because they were "EU recommended" to help people find a server that would most likely provide a playerbase with roughly the same timezones as them to help with finding groups etc in case they didn't already have a large number of friends/plans for w/e server. Otherwise why not just force everyone with an EU connection onto the "EU" servers during login? My friend who plays WoW says they do this.

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Originally Posted by EmSix

Ironically enough you aren't even on the EU server.

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I'm not on an "EU" server either, because I knew before they would be in the same place as NA and that I had a large number of friends planning to be on excalibur so that way I'd have people to play with and some of them were EU too so I'd be able to find groups to suit me. You don't HAVE to be on an EU server, or even from the EU to support this. (granted I am EU but still)

I'm not going back to the game until they make EU servers based in EU.
I know at least one other person who does the same. Take it as it is.

I support this message.

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Originally Posted by Delsus

Guys, what you are all failing to notice is that you can use proxys and VPNs to lower your ping, therefore part of the problem is the route your ISP chooses to get across the pond. If it was entirely because of the physical location of the servers proxys and VPNs would have very little effect, not the omg dis is much better effect we see.

And Yes I do live in the UK and I do play on a NA server, do I complain, nope.

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So you're saying we should pay even more money on top of the monthly sub and get put on some government watchlist for using a VPN all the time? Not to mention that this really isn't an option for console players. No. Thank. You.

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Originally Posted by InVizO

I vote NO, because FFXI had decent ping worldwide for all regions in one server and creating a new EU server this late in the game would cause a mass exodus of euro players on our current servers. 12am-7am US time is already a ghost town of a joke for Full servers.

The answer is to find a better data center or vastly improve the current one, its a cheaper option and everyone is happy.

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1. FFXI was a MUCH MUCH more slower paced game that higher ping hardly affected it.
2. You're basically saying: "EU don't deserve a server in Europe because then I won't have people to play with in X hours." Pretty selfish if you ask me.

I do agree with your solution though if it really will fix it for us.

And before the group of "I beat X with Y ping so it's all lies" comes, I never said it wasn't playable. Playable - yes, fair - no.