Where do Australians go?

[Woofles]

If you do choose to roll on Tonberry. I can confirm that the ratio between English and Japanese players is about 40:60. That's plenty enough English speaking players I've found to form tons of English guilds and have English conversations in general chat channels.

I too was initially worried about rolling on a Japanese server, but after playing for awhile I've had no problems.

I'm also pretty sure Tonberry has the biggest Oceanic community of all the servers listed in starkhorns post. Polls showed it several times higher than any of the other choices, Especially compared to the NA choices.

Edit: Masamune is actually pretty popular too I just discovered, if a legacy server is what you need.

[Canniballistic]

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Thanks for the info you two. Sounds like I'll roll on Tonberry.
That website looks interesting... definitely going to need to check that out tonight.

In some games AUS have their own regional servers, but in FFXIVs case your only choice would be the JP servers.

This has been a problem that has long plagued players from the AUS. I've also heard horror stories of AUS players getting 500-1k ping.
Have you pinged the JP data centre to see your latency?

Have not, but I've long learned that Australians only have the choice of minimizing their latency issues rather than expecting a local server (unless youre playing PS2).

So yeah, even though I know MMO's are designed to mitigate the effects of a poor network connection I would still rather connect to Japan than the EU or US, and I'm sure if any shenanigans happen they will likely fix the Japanese servers first.