A European datacenter!

[Praesidium]

my bet is most EU players will unsubscribe in about 2 months if no EU datacenter news are out by then

i know i will

[Suellen]

I find this thread very interesting. I'm from US and I experience everything you guys are describing on a regular basis. I had just assumed the servers were in JP like how all the FFXI servers were in JP. To learn they are actually a lot closer to home is a bit shocking. I think there is more here going on in the network code than the unfortunate side effect of dealing with travel time latency.

Regardless, I really hope you guys are able to get servers closer to you. It should be standard practice for any online game these days.

[Statrix]

Bump from south africa. an EU data center will be about 50-100ms less which will make a huge difference. Currently won't be able to move out Titan's spam ability even if i move the split second it appears.

[Noata]

There will likely not be an EU Datacenter. There are several very simple reasons. 1. Cost, it costs millions to stand up and maintain a Datacenter, each server is extremely expensive. 2. Migration, now we need to migrate from one datacenter to another, this will be just as dangerous as launch day. 3. Funding, currently SE let everyone play FFXIV for free for most of its live in 1.0, bearely drawing anything from subs that went straight into 2.0 development that SE has spent a good bit on already. then they bought datacenters in NA at the popular request of the Playerbase, spending millions, and now they stood up more servers, a nice chunk of money again possibly millions. all while not drawing a single subscription yet for 2.0, and now you want them to fund a datacenter in EU. whats another few million!

It is a nice thought, but with little benefit to cost. a good opinion but with logic and reason applied not reasonable. Unless its a year or 2 down the line, even then its iffy.

[Namko]

I find this thread very interesting. I'm from US and I experience everything you guys are describing on a regular basis. I had just assumed the servers were in JP like how all the FFXI servers were in JP. To learn they are actually a lot closer to home is a bit shocking. I think there is more here going on in the network code than the unfortunate side effect of dealing with travel time latency.

Regardless, I really hope you guys are able to get servers closer to you. It should be standard practice for any online game these days.

Your server (Durandal) is based in Japan, so you are experiencing what we are.

[Aegis]

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

I believe an englishman said that.

You win this round Gadget!

[Suellen]

Your server (Durandal) is based in Japan, so you are experiencing what we are.

Aw yes that would be confusing. This is my legacy toon so using it for posts but I actually rerolled for this release and am playing on Faerie atm which is NA

[Crimsonforce]

I live in Australia and play on Balmung becasue all my NA friends choose it till xfers are in, i thought thats fine i can handle having more lag played wow with them for years and my lat was 250ms for that game i never had trouble playing at all. now when i play this game i cant even get out of the aoe even if i move at half cast and move like 5yrds+ away i still get hit, i asked my friend on your screen where was my character and she said my character didnt start to move after he used the attack. my lat for ffxiv atm is 450ms idk why it's so much higher then it was in wow. I just hope after they fix all the servers the latency will go down some but i doubt it

[Praesidium]

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U're underestimating the ammount of EU players playing.

if they stop subscribing (and they will, right now they think the lag is because servers are full), they'll lose more money.

And more datacenters in europe means less datacenters in NA, so they would save some money there

[Mavlok]

This is simply not true. Just look at the european servers now; they're BRIMMING with people. Every single one of them are CONSTANTLY full.
I'm even playing on the same server as you man, we definitely don't need more people.

I know, but it's still free month, many will leave after it ends. Plus, if arrstatus is correct, I have a ping of 80ms which is about the same that I have in WoW EU located servers. I believe most of the lag problems some people have are due to temporary launch server congestion rather than distance. And since the cross server grouping includes the NA ones, you'll get people to team up no matter what time you log in.