How do you feel about them talking about divided servers?

[Hachiko]

Depends. Will the English only servers be located in the US, or will they all still be located in japan?

I would take cutting off the multicultural influence to have more people to play with on peak hours, and lower ping from more local servers.

[Jinko]

As long as they gives us all the choice I see no problem with it, personally I would join/move to a Euro/UK server.

I don't dislike playing with Americans but the time zones mess things up for me when doing events and what not, dont' really care about playing with JP players, again nothing against it just not something that happens very often.

I can fully appreciate JP players not wantin to play with US/EU people more to do with communication than anything else.

Regional servers will also no doubt mean lanuage specific servers, it really depends on the population.

[Charismatic]

its a great idea. jps are hella emo.

Made me laugh, had to like it.

[Burn]

I want them, I played on one of the oldest FFXI servers that were very JP dominated for atleast the first year or so, let me tell you how that experience turned out when I was pioneering the endgame as one of the first NA LS's on an old jp server.

They held the HNM's all day so they would pop more favorable times for them.
They called us "Dirty Foreigner's that don't deserve to fight Fafnir" Despite never playing with them in the past.
They would attempt to MPK us with Roses, spiders when they didn't get claim on Nidhogg.
They would deny me and countless other people exp invites the moment we answered (yes, please) with autotranslator to an exp pt invite.

I remember one JP replying to me "(English) (Perfect Dodge)" his name was Gottfred and was in one of the upper tier JP ls's that had a bad rep for hating on NA's.

The few nice jp's I did play with were so few and far inbetween, I'm not going to throw all jp's under the bus because theres knuckleheads in all walks of life but if given the chance to play on an NA server only i'm taking it without question because my last experience wasent pleasant by any means. I don't think XIV suffers from this as much right now because the game is still in flux in mid reform.

This is just my own experience, theres no right or wrong but I don't want any of that playing into future encounters with people once the game starts flowing with people when we start getting closer to 2.0.

[Tetsaru]

I agree that FF14 needs some BETTER servers to deal with a lot of lag and character placement issues (such as Ifrit's Eruption/Radiant Plume attacks still hitting people who have CLEARLY moved far away from them, or watching people somehow running up the sides of walls when loading new areas or getting hit by knockback moves), but not at the cost of dividing up the communities we already have. I don't know how many of you guys are familiar with the game Phantasy Star Universe, but if you are, then you probably know what I'm talking about. If not, then allow me to explain...

PSU came out in 2006, a few years after FF11, and it was also released on the exact same consoles - PC, PS2, and Xbox360. Thing was, not everyone could play together regardless of console like they could on FF11 (correct me if I'm wrong on that, I didn't play FF11 for very long); PC and PS2 shared one set of servers, while 360 had its own servers. On top of that, there were Japanese PC/PS2 servers and US/European PC/PS2 servers, while 360 was somehow able to accommodate ALL regions, including Japanese, but most Japanese players were on the PC/PS2 servers. And on top of that, the Japanese PC/PS2 servers eventually got to the point where they dropped support for the PS2, and their game updates came out MUCH faster and they got a year ahead of everyone else in terms of what game content was available to the players. Partially Sega's fault, partially Microsoft's fault, but what eventually happened was that the US/European PC/PS2 servers were eventually shut down due to the lack of population, and forced everyone who still wanted to play the game to jump ship to another set of servers, usually the Japanese ones. This meant buying a new game disc and possibly a 360 console, setting up a completely new account, starting their character data over from scratch, and/or having to learn Japanese to be able to even read the in-game text and menus. The 360 servers are still up to my knowledge (I think only because Microsoft wants them to be), but they're still way behind the Japanese PC servers content-wise, despite Sega constantly promising "oh sure, we'll get you new content that Japan has now that we can focus more on you and not the PC/PS2 players we kicked to the curb" and then saying "well the reason why we haven't caught you guys up to Japan is because your version of the game is just different." (original quote from Sega GM Edward here) Not to mention Sonic Team's horrible management of the game in general: bugged updates that caused server rollbacks and forced players to lose some of their progress, errors with the authentication servers that kept players from even logging in, constant reskinning of maps, weapons, and enemies, lack of GM involvement with in-game issues, etc...

The bottom line here is that I don't want to see FF14 end up like this, especially seeing how much effort has been put into trying to make it a good game despite not starting out well. And while I DO have a lot more faith in Square-Enix than I do with Sega, I'm still very wary, especially seeing how a lot of the newer FF games like 13 have taken steps backwards and disappointed me compared to older games like FF7, and I know that's not really a fair comparison (different developers/consoles, etc.), but still...

[Rowyne]

If given the opportunity out of the gate i prob would have picked a North American server though if it was an option.

I would have, too. I wish they would have set it up like that from the start. >.<

[PrettyPrincess]

You know, people are like, NO I DONT WANNA BE STUCK WITH X PLAYER BASE. A friend of mine mentioned something that everyone seems to be overlooking. Do you really think JP will want to play with other nationalities when they open language servers? Sure some might want to, but I'm pretty sure a huge chunk of them wont go near a global server.

[Delsus]

I want them, I played on one of the oldest FFXI servers that were very JP dominated for atleast the first year or so, let me tell you how that experience turned out when I was pioneering the endgame as one of the first NA LS's on an old jp server.

They held the HNM's all day so they would pop more favorable times for them.
They called us "Dirty Foreigner's that don't deserve to fight Fafnir" Despite never playing with them in the past.
They would attempt to MPK us with Roses, spiders when they didn't get claim on Nidhogg.
They would deny me and countless other people exp invites the moment we answered (yes, please) with autotranslator to an exp pt invite.

I remember one JP replying to me "(English) (Perfect Dodge)" his name was Gottfred and was in one of the upper tier JP ls's that had a bad rep for hating on NA's.

The few nice jp's I did play with were so few and far inbetween, I'm not going to throw all jp's under the bus because theres knuckleheads in all walks of life but if given the chance to play on an NA server only i'm taking it without question because my last experience wasent pleasant by any means. I don't think XIV suffers from this as much right now because the game is still in flux in mid reform.

Let me put it to you this way on my server on FFXI all the NA HNMLS members were complete asses, MPKing for claim, treating all other LS's like inferior rubbish, Dynamis jacking etc etc, I could go on.

The fact is most HNMLS were elitests and complete assholes, I had been MPK'd and had dyna or limbus jacked many times by HNMLS, all they cared about was getting the best gear and using members, no one else mattered.

Its not a JP problem you are discussing, its a HNMLS problem and most of those come from Japan or NA, the Japanese are not a racist people in general, the ones I have seen have all been nice, also when I talked to a Japanese teacher (from Japan origanally) she was actually suprised about the JPonry mentality.

I think people could be suprised if they give us the choice of regional and global servers about how many JP stay, on the other hand they could think they are the only ones staying and because of language problems with NA and EU people they would change as well because they dont wanna be the only JP on the server.

Edit: wonder if Reinheart would be willing to make a post on the JP forums to see how many JP players would choose regional and global servers, just out of curiosity

[OJtheLIONKing]

You know, people are like, NO I DONT WANNA BE STUCK WITH X PLAYER BASE. A friend of mine mentioned something that everyone seems to be overlooking. Do you really think JP will want to play with other nationalities when they open language servers? Sure some might want to, but I'm pretty sure a huge chunk of them wont go near a global server.

This seems to be the general attitude of JP players. If it's even optional, possibly the vast majority of them will go to JP only servers, which would defeat the most of the purpose of having global servers in the first place. As far as Europeans...well, there were a lot of Europeans on my supposedly North American WoW server for instance, so that's not as big an issue.

There's no doubt the auto-translate needs work, but one of the things I really loved from FFXI and in this game is being able to play with and get along with JP players. The fact that I started learning Japanese in 2006 helped matters considerably.

I suppose it may have been for economic or pragmatic reasons originally, but I still like the statement behind the global servers in FFXI, that they wanted to foster a global community without barriers. I feel like we'll be taking a step backwards if we go to regional servers. In this case, it seems an all or nothing thing--compromising by allowing the choice will basically result in regional servers. I can understand that for communication reasons, but I think the pros of a global community outweigh the cons.

[Baxter]

this is just a HORRIBLE idea. Let the search and content finder filter through language there is NO need to split servers and stunt population.