[Poll] Servers - international or regional?

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11-07-2011, 07:43 PM
Tonkra

[Poll] Servers - international or regional?

Well just an other Poll to vote on :D

Yoshida stated in his Live Letter that he is taking into account to open regional (language) server besides the global, international servers . Like Japanese only, german, french server etc.

whats your opinion to this? i'll personally stick to the global servers, because i think its typical for FF Online. also i think international servers have the advantage that there are plenty players around the clock no matter what time it is.

so you can more easily team up with other people although its lately in the evening.
Also i think that regional servers "die" much faster than global servers ever will. International server are having a longer live i would say.
i think it wont be an idea that good, it could mean that some of the old international server playerbase will leave to new regional servers which will cause a reduction of players on every server type. i mean is Final Fantasy XIV having so much players for opening new servers, even in 2.0.? i dont think so.
would that mean they need to make cluster very early?

So i am personally pro "international". +

(like this if you are "PRO" International servers)
11-07-2011, 07:44 PM
Tonkra

(like this if you are "PRO" Regional servers)
11-07-2011, 07:45 PM
Secret_Reeve

theres like 3 or more other threads on this topic, please search the forums before making another duplicate thread and wasting peoples time
11-07-2011, 07:50 PM
Tonkra

(like this if you are "PRO" for BOTH SERVER TYPES)
11-07-2011, 07:51 PM
Tonkra

Quote:

Originally Posted by Secret_Reeve

theres like 3 or more other threads on this topic, please search the forums before making another duplicate thread and wasting peoples time

but there isnt a poll on that. and thats the point. you dont need to "waste" your time then with entering this thread.
11-07-2011, 07:57 PM
Secret_Reeve

actually there is.

"like this thread" blah blah blah, i know, i entered it, SEARCH, READ, VOTE. duplicate thread, should be locked down n deleted.
11-08-2011, 06:51 AM
Claire_Pendragon

Problem here (for me) is that my answer is dependent on the situation.
I like playing with non English speaking players as well, BUT I would gladly through away this for more responsive servers.
Hated never being able to land stun in FFXI.
I literally casted it BEFORE the readies WS text appears, just to prove how impossible it was for me.
I cast Stun, Enemy readies WS, it says enemy is stunned, and the enemies WS goes off.
OR, I see the text, hit the button (w/o delay, as I showed my friends in a video how quick I was.) see the spell either tie with the enemies WS going off, or going off after their WS.
Eventually I gave up and just spammed Head Butt as BLU on most fights (w/o built resistance.)

EVEN if they manage to lower the lag, the fact is, if its even 0.2 of a second different from JP players, they will base content, such as stuns or w/e, around the JP players times. Otherwise the JP players would have less of a challenge.

So if it would fix server lag, I'm willing to go to an all English speaking server.
11-08-2011, 06:55 AM
Dalmore

INternational onry...

Would hate to be on a server with only western players would be horrid.
11-08-2011, 07:53 AM
MeowyWowie

Quote:

Originally Posted by Claire_Pendragon

I like playing with non English speaking players as well, BUT I would gladly through away this for more responsive servers.

This is how I feel, to an extent. Unfortunately, this is not the case. SE has already said that they have no plans for regional servers in the sense that the servers are actually in their region. All servers will remain in Japan. So this is basically just segregation of players, and does not affect response times in any way.

I say F that. I have a number of JP friends that I enjoy playing with, as I did in XI. For me, it's part of the game and it just wouldn't feel the same without them. And even if these regional servers did affect latency, I would probably still choose a global server.
11-08-2011, 08:58 AM
Tonkra

for the "latency fact" Yoshida said, that they want to overwork the whole server structure like the game client as well.
maybe it will lead into a better responding with less lag.
11-08-2011, 09:30 AM
Jynx

I seriously wish we could make proper polls on these forums...

More to the point though, for people saying that they think the laguage locked servers will actually be outside of Japan...not happening. It costs far too much to have regional servers based in each region, Square Enix will NEVER do it for FFXIV.
11-08-2011, 09:34 AM
Jinko

I'll always be pro regional, but I do think they should give the option for international servers aswell as regional.

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It costs far too much to have regional servers based in each region

Not really, they already have a HQ in the US and Edios in the UK, the rest is just hardware and bandwidth costs, considering they are shelling out for new servers anyway it wouldn't cost a great deal more to split the hardware cost over 3 regions.

Yes it will cost more in terms of employees but if they want this game to be successful they have to expect to spend money.

Hell even free to play MMO's have regional servers.

Quote:

for the "latency fact" Yoshida said, that they want to overwork the whole server structure like the game client as well.
maybe it will lead into a better responding with less lag.

Regardless of their server speed it still takes 300 ms for me (UK) to ping Japan, it takes the average US connection 150-200 to ping Japan and the average Japanese player takes 16 ms to ping their servers.

Some EU players are getting 400-500 ms latency.
11-08-2011, 09:56 AM
Jynx

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jinko

Not really, they already have a HQ in the US and Edios in the UK, the rest is just hardware and bandwidth costs,

-Maintenance costs skyrocket with multiple server locations
-Server upgrade costs skyrocket
-Employing a few staff to maintain the servers

It's not just having a place to put the servers, costs rise exponentially by not having all your servers in one location. Like I said it's far too expensive and it wont happen.
11-08-2011, 09:58 AM
Jinko

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jynx

-Maintenance costs skyrocket with multiple server locations
-Server upgrade costs skyrocket
-Employing a few staff to maintain the servers

It's not just having a place to put the servers, costs rise exponentially by not having all your servers in one location. Like I said it's far too expensive and it wont happen.

Why is it that F2P MMO's can afford it and do it then or are you saying that it won't happen because SE are too tight and don't care about their playerbase ?
11-08-2011, 10:10 AM
Dreamer

It's pretty simple.

If the 'regional' servers are physically local (instead of being on the other side of the world), I'm PRO-REGIONAL.

Otherwise, if 'regional' on pertains to language, I'm PRO-INTERNATIONAL.
11-08-2011, 10:16 AM
Tibian

I am pro regional and language based servers for a few reasons.

1. I don't have to struggle with autotranslate and/or not being able to understand another player.
2. Everyone speaks the same primary language.
3. Frees up development time that was previously allocated to auto-translate functions.
4. Creates a better sense of community.
5. Reduces lag (if location based).

Ultimately, SE should just designate some English, Japanese, German, French, etc language specific servers. Then they should also have a couple international servers for those who would like to.

It is a win/win situation for everyone involved.

Choices = happy customers.
11-08-2011, 10:17 AM
Jynx

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jinko

Why is it that F2P MMO's can afford it and do it then or are you saying that it won't happen because SE are too tight and don't care about their playerbase ?

Many F2P MMO's are actually not very demanding on servers, large games like XIV are. Costs are alot lower.