A European datacenter!

[Misaky]

Even the last 2~3 mmorpgs i played, which were f2p, they had european servers...

I have fiber connection, and i really cant understand how can this game have lag..
Raiderz - f2p game, got 0 lag
Dota 2 - f2p game, i can even play it in NA servers without any lag.

Please give us a Europen DataCentre, and please don't wait till most of the European players leave duo to being impossible to dodge the end game bosses (duo to lag)..

[Silverwalk]

There was massive thread in the beta forums about the lag.

Yoshi made a post and in it he stated that your characters position is sent to the server 3 times a second.

So add that to your latency to figure out how much time you need to be out of the aoe to avoid getting hit.

[FluffyM]

Tell you what, if they did have servers in Germany we would have had a launch as smooth as butter. They are so incredible efficient at handling data centres. Although for my own selfish reasons I would want them in the UK.

German efficiency is a much propagated myth. If the servers had been in Germany, log-ins would not have been restricted, the servers would have died under load, support tickets would still not have been answered today and there would be around 70000 forms for SE to fill out before they can add more capacity. Germany is now a land in the firm grip of bureaucracy, the efficiency is long gone.

Dota 2 - f2p game, i can even play it in NA servers without any lag.

The lag I get to US-E servers in DotA2 is a lot more noticeable, than lag in this is; at least for me (ping <100 to SE datacentre, >100 constant ping in dota2). Of course game speed matters, but not all that much when we're talking about reaction-based skills.

[kosomoto]

Justice needs to be fulfilled.

[Rillifane]

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

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

I've already paid for 180 days and won't be unsubbing, i experience none of these lag issues that other "EU" players keep talking about and i just have basic ADSL, the only "aoes" i get hit by when out of the circle are the same ones that east coast players get hit with too due to the server position checks that are hard coded in to the game, which would result in me still getting hit by them even if i was on an "EU" datacentre in Europe.

Don't forget some ISP's are treating FFXIV like it's a peer-2-peer game and are throttling peoples speeds when sending data back and forth to the servers, i think there's even a dev post about it.

[Laifon]

Bumping for the sake of EU players.

[Zeons]

This would be awesome. When I move out of an aoe I am still unsure if I will be damaged or not. This is ruining the flow of the combat and making it a lot less enjoyable. Just wait for end game content where EU players won't be able to progress.

[Alemana]

If F2P models like League of Legends and DOTA can put servers basically everywhere in the world, I dont see how a subscription based game with a 100% reliable revenue cannot match this.

Then again, most companies think that NA and EU encompass the entire world and give the giant middle finger to the rest.

[Noxus]

SE move EU servers to Europe or i am out!

[Razzlie]

Yup, EU servers not located on another continent would be nice.