Vote for a EU server in EU

[MeiUshu]

now this is the reason why I dont get as bad lag as I used to when I was attempting Titan HM, now is a piece of cake that fight....I was wondering what changed even if my ilvl 90 gear I dont get hit that bad if not by my own fault.. Only Titan EX is a struggle but not much due to lag anymore, with some exceptions now and then...If this is why I have a better time then I used to ....is WHAOOO lol...from 240ms down to 100 to 120 is heaven..

Mei

[Blue_Bear]

Is there a way to improve ping to the eu server? I live in the UK and when ever I do titan extreme on my screen im clearly out of the plume but I still get hit by it, my friend has the exact same issue. You can even see his dead body clearly out of the way of the plume when the server catches up.

[Adelphe]

I think there are programs u can run to redirect your connection, but whether SE allows there use i dont know

[LalaRu]

Any third party program that meddles between the game client and the servers are not allowed and you risk your account on using it. If a program cannot or is hard to be detected (as gaming vpn) does not means you can use it safely.

[Millerna]

A service like WTfast or Battleping is allowed (been confirmed by Square, just can't find the post) ... They don't do anything to either the client or the server, they just allow for more optimal routing. Using WTFast I can dodge plumes purely on reaction alone, except when people stack wrong of course

[LalaRu]

A service like WTfast or Battleping is allowed (been confirmed by Square, just can't find the post)

They directly don't say it is allowed, just that you can use at your own risk.

Using 3rd party is always a risk. Just see the app that have added its well known 'radar'...

[Yshnal]

As for servers physically in the EU, they'd likely have to create new servers for that, considering there are quite a lot of non-EU people on the current 'EU' servers as well.

Not really. I don't want sound harsh, but they have the EU tag, so they knew fully well where they were going. If we can't have proper servers just because of non EU people playing on EU servers, I don't know what to say... It doesn't make sense that the people that are intended to play in some specific servers have to suffer because of people that weren't the main target of said servers.

We've been paying the same as everyone else, we have our "own" servers, yet we don't have the same kind of service. Having better ping and less potential connection issues would be nice. Otherwise just remove the EU tag or warn people when chosing their datacenter, please, because most don't even know that the servers are in Canada.

And this is coming from someone that doesn't have any issues besides some lag spikes or disconections from time to time (rarely). That doesn't mean, though, that I wouldn't like to have an optimal ping, and not just for me, but for those that I play with too, be it friends or strangers. We play together, after all, and if someone has issues it's bad for the whole group. I've suffered this a lot (someone getting a lag spike on a critical moment when the whole fight was working fine? yes, I've seen it many times), and I'm getting tired of it. And no, playing with someone else is NOT a solution, as it's not acceptable either that people have to PAY for Battleping and the likes when they can play every other MMO out there without issues.

So, please SE, Yoshida, or whoever reads this. What's being asked in this thread is something fair, and it has been asked many times in the past too. Can we get some acknowledgement that we exist in the form of, at least, a proper (and official) reasoning as of why we can't have a real EU datacenter? Isn't FFXIV:ARR successful in Europe? Don't we pay enough money to warrant us the same quality and treatment as NA and Japan?

[Vileren]

I can understand that they had the servers in Canada at relaunch. Redoing the game was brave and financially risky for SE.

But indeed one year later the game is doing better than what they planned (as they acknowledge themselves), they're planning patches, expansions etc.. Would be a good move to move the data center in Europe, they can afford it, and it wil be better long-term wise.

[Mcshiggs]

I can understand that they had the servers in Canada at relaunch. Redoing the game was brave and financially risky for SE.

But indeed one year later the game is doing better than what they planned (as they acknowledge themselves), they're planning patches, expansions etc.. Would be a good move to move the data center in Europe, they can afford it, and it wil be better long-term wise.

The game is doing better and they are making more money than they expected, but it's clear to see they aren't doing a lot of reinvesting that money into the game, it seems they are still working with the budget they set up from their lower projections. This can be seen easily by looking at content being put in late, broken, and not even close to finished. It is purely a business decision, people are still paying, so it is more profitable for them to keep that money instead of adding more team members. The same goes for European servers, I am sure they are keeping track of subscription gains and losses, and at this point it seems European players are still paying even without European servers, so financially it wouldn't make sense for SE to put them up unless they know that doing so will attract enough new players to pay for the initial cost but also the monthly upkeep. You can't really consider existing players into this because you are already paying without them. If European subs drop, I'm sure they will look at it again, but then they will have to consider if it was the server location or something else driving players away, so if there is a huge loss of European subs, but not NA or Japanese, then maybe they will add servers over there then, but then they might just look at it as throwing away money at a decreasing market.

[Riepah]

I live in Europe. I play on a NA server and I'll stay on it because I have friends there and whatnot, but I definitely do support a "real" European server. I personally think it's a joke that they basically slap a EU sign on a NA server and call it a day.