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

[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?

[Mjollnir]

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

FFXI does it, so I'd consider this extremely likely.