Servers located in EU?... PLEASE?

I've resubscribed recently after being away for half a year. During that time I forgot how huge the delay caused by lag was from playing from the EU. One of my friends started playing too, and he often mentions how severe the lag is, and how it messes up a lot of mechanics in the game. (example: Titan ex)

I can't understand why SE refuses to have an EU server (not a datacenter, a server located in the EU), XIV has been out for over 1.5 years. It is successful. 4mil accts passed. First expac coming. Why is there still no hope for an EU server?!

Every time XIV comes into discussion with my friends they laugh at the fact that FFXIV doesn't even have an EU server. All I can do is agree with them. My ping is on a constant 175ms...

I'm even constantly messing up Mudras because of how desynchronized my client is from the server, and it's infuriating.

Please. What must the EU community do to finally get the option to play at an acceptable ping on a server located in the EU..

Latest info i know of from August 2014 from a Yoshi-P Interview is that it is in early planning phase...
Maybe with heavensward.. but yeah it's time.

Not only mudras suffer from it, casters in movement heavy fights say hi; when you stopped moving, the castbar starts for 0,5 sec and is then interupted because you were not in synch.

Lovley gif in your sig by the way, very nice.

Edit: Amazing vid!

I'm quite surprised this is even an issue. SE has and has had for quite some time, plenty of resources to build the EU datacenter in, um, the EU. Canada seemed close enough for them. I also would expand on this idea and go so far as to ask that the NA datacenters get split up, one focused more in the Western NA and another in the Eastern NA. Not only would this make sense but people would be more likely to join a datacenter closer to their home and that would put them in closer vicinity to fellow players.

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Originally Posted by IsaacDamodred

I'm quite surprised this is even an issue. SE has and has had for quite some time, plenty of resources to build the EU datacenter in, um, the EU.

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Exactly. I'm very saddened to see that again, it didn't even get mentioned at the Heavensward PAX East panel. Though I can imagine that they wouldn't do so as to avoid embarrassing themselves for being such a huge MMO yet still not having an EU server.. I really would like to hear ANY progress report on it. Even now I'm jealous of NA players that they get to have a fuller experience for the same money. I'd be happy just playing with under a 100ms ping. Again, it ruins a core mechanic of a class for example (the NIN Mudras. The lag messes it up bad.)

Please, I beg the people working at Square Enix to help fix the experience for EU players. Or at least give us an update on where the progress on this issue stands. Is it even still in progress, or has it been scrapped?