Regional Servers: Can we be a bit more specific please?

[Bayohne]

Greetings everyone,

Thanks for your patience while we gathered feedback from today's announcement.

We will have one data center that houses the North America/Europe servers. In the future, we may create additional data centers based on a variety of factors, but currently we have set up one to house the servers created for the NA/EU territories.

I know that there are some that are concerned about latency issues and I can say that we chose the location of the North America/Europe data center after conducting numerous tests from various locations and ensuring that it covers multiple territories.

In phase 3 of the Beta Test, you'll be able to choose your World freely, so please try out servers located in both the Japan data center and the North America/Europe data center. This way, you'll be able to see which fits your needs the best and ensure a great gaming experience.

Yoshida recently made a lengthy post on the topic that we're currently translating and we'll be sure to share it with you as soon as it’s complete.

Thank you again for your continued support.

[Alhanelem]

will be eager to read it... I'm not from Europe, but I recall it being said previously that the EU would have its own datacenter.

Granted MMOs are very tolerant of network latency (the "lag' tends to be more server processing/load/design issues than network issues) and most players didn't have much issue when the servers were Japan only, but it's still a bit disappointing.

I suppose in some ways its a good thing as there will be somewhat of an increase in cultural diversity among NA servers.

[Enma]

Thank you Bayohne for the info! Probably it would have been wiser release them yesterday, but...

[Catapult]

We will have one data center that houses the North America/Europe servers. In the future, we may create additional data centers based on a variety of factors, but currently we have set up one to house the servers created for the NA/EU territories.

A pity, but thank you for the clarification.

[Rhivryn]

Greetings everyone,

Thanks for your patience while we gathered feedback from today's announcement.

We will have one data center that houses the North America/Europe servers. In the future, we may create additional data centers based on a variety of factors, but currently we have set up one to house the servers created for the NA/EU territories.

I know that there are some that are concerned about latency issues and I can say that we chose the location of the North America/Europe data center after conducting numerous tests from various locations and ensuring that it covers multiple territories.

In phase 3 of the Beta Test, you'll be able to choose your World freely, so please try out servers located in both the Japan data center and the North America/Europe data center. This way, you'll be able to see which fits your needs the best and ensure a great gaming experience.

Yoshida recently made a lengthy post on the topic that we're currently translating and we'll be sure to share it with you as soon as it’s complete.

Thank you again for your continued support.

Question:
Is FFXIV:ARR going to offer paid character transfers between servers after launch, much like the services games like World of Warcraft offer?

[Firesped]

I looked over Yoshi-P's post with Microsoft Translate. from it I was able to tell there are 1,400,000 version 1.0 characters. and worlds are limited to 5000 people on at a time.

[Kraggy]

I suppose in some ways its a good thing as there will be somewhat of an increase in cultural diversity among NA servers.

Maybe, but XIV will be the poorer, in comparison with XI, when 'western' players are segregated from the Japanese and Oriental players.

[charlemagne]

So are we to assume from this that european players will probably be no closer to their server than in 1.0?
If that's the case I'm not only disappointed but actually angry.

[HiirNoivl]

You say we'll be able to choose our world freely but this is limited to new created characters, right?

[Duuude007]

Found one: [source]

A North American data center is in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.