Interesting population statistics per Wikipedia and suggested server reallocation

[Philderbeast]

Two thoughts:

Wouldn't Australia and New Zealand connect to Japan's servers for lower latency rates?

Nice of you to ignore China and India, both of which respectively have populations higher than the 1b you listed for the NA servers.

yep the jp servers are MUCH better for aus/nz players

[Tenzen]

wth lol.......

[SnaggleFox]

There is no way those numbers are in millions. If there are 316m people on the US servers, that's nearly the entire population of the US. Also, there's no way 1/8th of the worlds population is playing this game.

[Silversnow]

Just throwing out that in one of reinharts translated interviews that EU has the same amount of legacy people as JP. And that NA has twice as much.

[BlackDawn88]

You forgot Korea and China and many countries connecting to JP servers

so china + 1357
Korea South +50
North Korea +25

[kellyfcwalsh]

Do you have a link to back up these numbers your are throwing out there?

Wikipedia for the population numbers. Square Enix itself for the # of servers currently allocated per region.
Suggested server numbers are then extrapolated from base country populations.

[Riposte]

[citation needed]

[mathikk]

those numbers are incorrect. TO date the most played game in the world is League of Legends and that game has roughly 36 million players

[Vigneault]

servers are meant for 2 hemispheres.
it's not JP vs rest of the world, JP servers are targeted for the whole eastern hemisphere and not just JP.

sadly, humanity truth : bigotry > logic anyway.

You forgot Korea and China and many countries connecting to JP servers

so china + 1357
Korea South +50
North Korea +25

also the whole southeast asia.
and yes, they can english.

[kellyfcwalsh]

You forgot Korea and China and many countries connecting to JP servers

so china + 1357
Korea South +50
North Korea +25

Korea may be playing on Jap servers, but China wouldn't be. There are various rules about online gaming in China which is why most game publishers have to setup separate servers inside of china for that player base.