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

[Alhanelem]

Some people have reported pings of <100ms (generally considered ideal for most types of games) from the UK to the montreal location. the same people had pings of 300ms or more to Japan. So it's still a huge improvement in terms of network performance for people in Europe.

[Carooks]

Since you don't want to create NA and JP versions of each server, why not give each server a 'pairing.'

For instance Durandal(JP) and Ragnarok(NA) could be 'paired' servers. If NA players from Durandal want to be on a NA server, then people from Durandal all can transfer -only- to Ragnarok. If JP players from Ragnarok want to transfer to a JP server, they can transfer -only- to Durandal. In this way, everyone stays with their friends and they don't have to try to get everyone together.

[Gildarts]

i tested ping to montreal and i had 202ms, funny durandal in v1.0 test was 187ms...
i know its like no difference betwen two number but guess i'll wait for beta and check keke if i managed to get the server ip

[Yuber]

i tested ping to montreal and i had 202ms, funny durandal in v1.0 test was 187ms...
i know its like no difference betwen two number but guess i'll wait for beta and check keke if i managed to get the server ip

WHAT UP YO :P

[Coris]

Me being from the EU, I expected an EU datacenter but reading those news, in the end it doesn't really grind my gears. I played a few other games which were located in the US and I never had the feeling that I was having huge ping issues, except when I entered pretty crowded places (mostly cities).
Actually I hope some NA people will find their way over to Sargatanas or Ragnarok (depends on my LS) so we still have a nice mix of nationalities ^^

P.S: In 1.0 I thought it was hard to team up with JP people but that was mostly caused by the timezone and the language was only the second reason for that. I remember doing the pilgrimage quest with JP peeps and it was cool, but since I didn't understand what they were writing I had the feeling they were making fun of me xD" Maybe I was just paranoid because of all the funny emotes but in the end they helped me a lot! ^^

[Vivik]

NA wanted this too....

And it's not like we played with JPs a whole lot. It was segregated. This whole "international community" is a myth. Unless your idea of "international community" is text you can't read scrolling up on your screen, because it rarely ever went beyond that.

And people say "I play with JPs and they play with me?" Yeah but few if any people from NA/EU could honestly say that they knew who they were or were friends. They played with you because they didn't have a contents finder that could help them distinguish who did/didn't have a JP client.

No, not all NA wanted this.

Some of the best people I had in my endgame shell were JP. We had a great time together. It's unfortunate that this will not be ideal anymore in ARR.

It's easy to sit here and say you are happy about the decision but it's just as easy to ignore the in-game chat if you're not interested in playing with JPs.

[FedeMax]

These are the addresses some people are using for ping testing in the Beta forums.

square-enix.montreal.com / 184.107.107.176
eu.square-enix.com / 209.130.141.243
jp.square-enix.com / 202.67.53.202


So far all of the European players are getting in the mid 100s for montreal and mid 200s for japan. I have not seen anyone on the Oceanic area post any results.

[Duuude007]

These are the addresses some people are using for ping testing in the Beta forums.

square-enix.montreal.com / 184.107.107.167
eu.square-enix.com / 209.130.141.243
jp.square-enix.com / 202.67.53.202


So far all of the European players are getting in the mid 100s for montreal and mid 200s for japan. I have not seen anyone on the Oceanic area post any results.

Odd, the Montreal IP you listed is just timing out for me. I'm in Idaho.

[Gildarts]

WHAT UP YO :P

yooooooo yuber!

and thats a nice sig you got there lol

[FedeMax]

Odd, the Montreal IP you listed is just timing out for me. I'm in Idaho.

Sorry about that I made a mistake on a number. Ip address is 184.107.107.176