Australia deserves better latency

[Chiramu]

Do people not know of the time Yoshi P was there and said himself he was disappointed with the latency there? ...and as much as that doesn't magically make a centre there feasible, he's definitely aware you exist, and that the situation exists.

I spent years forced to play WoW with 300ms ping. The Tonberry lag isn't huge compared to that.

[Spawnie]

Last i looked australia was ranked around 50th for internet speeds lol so that right there explains alot xD

[JCharms]

I managed to make a char on Tonberry this morning, I will level her a little over the next few days and see how it is. It wont take long to see, just need to face a few enemies that lay down some floor spam and see if i can get out of it.
Since I started playing last year, it shows me literally meters away from it but it still registers the damage. I ended up changing to healer so I don't have to bother moving for anything and just eat the damage. :P
If it works out ok, I'll shift my mains over.

[harrisben]

So much negativity. It's interesting that so many of you focus on why not to have Australian servers rather than why we should.

If you're happy with how things are, kudos to you. I would like things to be better.

[Chiramu]

Last i looked australia was ranked around 50th for internet speeds lol so that right there explains alot xD

Not like gamers can do anything about that. You have to play the cards you're dealt.

[Ash_]

So much negativity. It's interesting that so many of you focus on why not to have Australian servers rather than why we should.

If you're happy with how things are, kudos to you. I would like things to be better.

We would all like better support in our region. But it's not just this game where SE pretend we don't exist. Their AU online store for example is pathetic, and we miss out on an enormous amount compared to the US/UK.

As for an oceania server; we're stuck in a paradox. They can't justify the expense or support without a higher playerbase, but they won't get more players from our region without supporting it. The best case scenario at the moment is to offer an eng server on an existing JP data centre for all Aus, NZ, Singapore, HK and other SEA players.

[Evangela]

Asian-Oceanic English server is more possible. They can just set it up in Japan so they don't have to pay any extra money and manpower to maintenance it. But if they want to put it in the center of the region then it should be in Hong Kong or Singapore, not Australia.

[Yasuhiro]

As someone that lives in Australia the ping can be pretty bad but I think I'll stay on JP Data Center with 120ms on a good day.
Tonberry got awful because Australians try and act like they're on Aether Data center. I'll just treat it as a containment server.

[CookieMonsta]

Last i looked australia was ranked around 50th for internet speeds lol so that right there explains alot xD

Its nothing to do with internet speed, its the geography. Most Australian cities are East coast and very south. This is a lot of distance to cover even for undersea fibre optic cables to japan. And as a double whammy, Aus doesn't have a big enough online population to warrant local servers (also good luck with the shitty Aus hosting prices). Ideally, there should be an Oceanic server located in Singapore which is almost at the centre of the oceanic population, best compromise of acceptable latency for Aussies, pinoys, malaysians etc etc

[Chiramu]

IAnd as a double whammy, Aus doesn't have a big enough online population to warrant local servers (also good luck with the shitty Aus hosting prices).

Blizzard AUS servers? Hmm. Though Square Enix is not anything like Blizzard. It took Blizzard about 10 years to establish AU servers, maybe wait that time for SE to make some? XD