Why no regional servers?

[gifthorse]

Nothing pisses me off more then not being able to play with a friend from EU just because I have the NA copy. Global FTW. My first language is also not English, I wonder if that gives me an other perspective. I know exactly what it's like to be among a whole group of people I barely or don't understand at all and I've learned to just deal with it and use 'sign' language. The auto translator is a lot like signaling meaning to people and making faces at them. Call me weird I think it's fantastic we get to interact with people from everywhere.

Just because they have regional servers doesn't mean they have to be region-locked.

In this day and age it is easy enough to out-source to servers in other countries.

And there should be servers around the globe to decrease latency issues. If you have 1000ms latency to servers in japan then everything you do will be delayed by minimum of one second. That's ridiculous.

[Abriael]

It's funny how you only ever fixate on the minor points of an argument.

If there are twice as many people on my server who can speak my language, that increases the change of meeting a kindred soul, right? If I can't talk to half the people on my server, that decreases my chance of meeting fun people, right? I don't see how this requires anything other than common sense to figure out, let alone statistical analysis.

First of all, you're not necessarily restricted to *your language* There's one lovely option named "learning languages"
The fact that you speak english doesn't mean that that lovely option is useless to you. That's one of the advantags of an international environment, instead of locking yourself up in your own little national ghetto.
Also, you're making up percentages, as you don't know how many non native english speakers actually speak english.

Just because they have regional servers doesn't mean they have to be region-locked.

You're missing the point. Even if the servers aren't region locked, people have to *chose* between their friends from a region, and those from other regions. It's obsolete, and in a globalized internet where people make friends *everywhere* it's an extremely dumb and counterproductive option.

[Cendres]

Just because they have regional servers doesn't mean they have to be region-locked.

This is true, however there's still the issue of segregation for me. I can understand some people are just fine with it, but FF was always a place where you could actually meet the entire community from everywhere. IF they could make a giant single server that would be best. But that's my own preference and I prefer if SE does not do region based servers EVEN if with the option of being able to play on a EU or Asian server if I wish it. Because then people stop trying to be careful how they speak to one another and just assume you speak their language and will ask the hell you are not on your own server and so forth. It's been done before and I prefer the way it is now.