Important Announcement from the Devs!!

[Wynn]

Except.. you know, being there.

The beauty of this genre is the fact that everyone, everyone is a part of your experience.. even if the only role they play in your experience is to make your backdrop all the more alive. Given the majority will, likely, choose not to be on the global servers, I think that benefit will be impacted - unless, perhaps, there are proportionally less global ones I suppose.

I guess they should only have one server. You know, so that way everyone is there and you aren't missing out on their presence.

[Alerith]

I guess they should only have one server. You know, so that way everyone is there and you aren't missing out on their presence.

Sarcasm aside, that would be pretty nice. Assuming the lag wouldn't be so thick you could taste it and the game would run just as smooth, I'd be all for this.

That being said, it's not gonna happen for many years to come, and probably not in this game.

[Atomisk]

My main concern is Economy. If all of japan goes to japanese server, who will make all my endgame items? :P Will the game cater to people who work 3rd shift? Majorly the population differences during certain times of the day/night when i need someone to repair my gear? Finding parties at off hours? I play with a Portuguese ls and an English ls. I don't speak Portuguese one bit, but we could still manage to do darkhold together. Having a world where people from all over log on enhances the chance of finding people to do content with, whenever you log on. I also have a feeling if they offer segregated worlds, the global worlds will become empty. and some of the races that do play don't have a strong enough following for their own world to be sustainable successfully (i.e i don't see alot of french or german players.) You are going to spread your player base thin, and will become even harder to find people to do content with. Hence will i be forced to go to a regional server even though i don't want to, just to find a player base?

[Atomisk]

can please have an age based server? i don't want to play with immature teens or kids. 25+ verified only?

[Fensfield]

I guess they should only have one server. You know, so that way everyone is there and you aren't missing out on their presence.

... Yes?

Ideally speaking, they should. Sharding isn't a feature; it's a consequence of the limitations of modern server technology. Being able to dedicate blade servers to individual star systems and subsequently have everyone on the same 'world' is one of the things makes EVE Online so special (and something CCP tout regularly and enthusiastically, and consider one of the game's a big selling points).

I'd consider a working, single-shard fantasy MMO on Final Fantasy XIV's intended scale an amazing, wonderful feat in and of itself and a draw in its own right - although for everyone's sanity it would require realistically sized cities and spaces between them, probably. Then again by the time server tech's on a level could make a standard-form fantasy MMORPG work with a shard-less setup, that probably won't be terribly difficult.

Sarcasm aside, that would be pretty nice. Assuming the lag wouldn't be so thick you could taste it and the game would run just as smooth, I'd be all for this.

That being said, it's not gonna happen for many years to come, and probably not in this game.

Exactly, thank you.

[Bayohne]

Has the Job System been moved up to v1.20 ?

Or is that a list of upcoming features that will be implemented by v2.0 (1.21, 1.22, etc.)?

Sorry about that, there indeed was a typo that has since been corrected. "1.20 and beyond" has been corrected. Sorry, everyone!

[Jynx]

Personally a bit sad about allowing people to segregate themselves to specific servers. Japanese population on Global servers will be sparse at best I bet.

[Davorok]

Sorry about that, there indeed was a typo that has since been corrected. "1.20 and beyond" has been corrected. Sorry, everyone!

Booooo! I mean thanks for the clarification Bayohne. ;>)

[Alerith]

can please have an age based server? i don't want to play with immature teens or kids. 25+ verified only?

No. Because there are very mature 15 year olds and extremely immature 30 year olds.

[Holland]

Sorry about that, there indeed was a typo that has since been corrected. "1.20 and beyond" has been corrected. Sorry, everyone!

Thank you very much Bayohne for the translations and for the hard work.

Is there any way for SE to start distribuiting the information they provide to JP magazines to the rest of the community?.