EU Confirmed as 3rd Rate Customer

[Lexia]

At launch, there was no indication that the servers located on the EU "datacenter" would ever be moved to an actual datacenter located in the EU. There was no reason for me to create a character on the "EU" servers.

This person said it pretty well

EU players who choose to play on NA servers weren't the target of that relocation. Besides, it was their choice not to follow official recommendation, and their choice to ignore the future possibility of server moving (it's not the fault of SE if people had poor forseeing abilities and didn't know that server merging, relocating and whatnot are pretty common in MMOs).

[Nezerius]

This person said it pretty well

Can you show me how many big MMOs have moved a datacenter to a different continent, post-launch?

It's not nearly as common as the quoted person seems to imply. XIV is probably one of the first that I've seen doing this, since other MMOs generally just open up new servers in a different area. So for example, a different company wouldn't move Chaos to the EU, they'd just make an entire new set of servers located in the EU, with a new name. There's no such thing as "poor foreseeing abilities" when it comes to something as uncommon as a server relocation.

[Fyce]

Can you show me how many big MMOs have moved a datacenter to a different continent, post-launch?

It's not nearly as common as the quoted person seems to imply. XIV is probably one of the first that I've seen doing this, since other MMOs generally just open up new servers in a different area. So for example, a different company wouldn't move Chaos to the EU, they'd just make an entire new set of servers located in the EU, with a new name. There's no such thing as "poor foreseeing abilities" when it comes to something as uncommon as a server relocation.

It doesn't change the fact that you had absolutly no reason to choose a NA recommended server instead of a EU labeled one.
In fact, timezones alone are a good enough argument to join the officially recommended servers.

Don't put that one on SE. It's your decision only.

[Theodric]

It doesn't change the fact that you had absolutly no reason to choose a NA recommended server instead of a EU labeled one.
In fact, timezones alone are a good enough argument to join the officially recommended servers.

Don't put that one on SE. It's your decision only.

It changes a whole lot, though you and the handful of other posters parroting the same comebacks are simply being stubborn. Clearly it isn't an issue you care very much for, so one has to wonder why you're even posting if you're not bothering to consider the bigger picture. You're very welcome to contest the list of individual points raised by various posters - myself included - throughout the thread. As it stands, you're just pointing fingers and claiming that European players are utterly to blame. Which is a rather bizarre stance to take.