Quote Originally Posted by Azurus View Post
This is purely my opinion and i hope it doesnt come off in a bad way, im sure it wont, but here it goes. I think the "Global community" a lot of people are referencing is somewhat of a farce. A few of you are active within multiple communities but i can guarantee a vast majority of people from both english speaking and japanese speaking communities rarely ever interact with the other side.

I guess the way i feel is why bother giving an illusion of a global community, when both sides tend to segregate themselves anyway, when they can just make them language specific and make things easier as a whole as far as communication and what not is concerned. This has always been my feeling since XI days, and im glad people have been able to bridge the gap but unfortunately the majority do not.And not for any racist reasons just for convenience. I think an option to choose between seperate servers and a global server would please most people.
You seem to think "multicultual" is meaning english speaking and Japanese speaking, when it means from all walks of life. I am in the UK, I play this game with people from Germany, US, Portugal, there was even somone who is origanally Korean but moved to US. The servers will not be segrigared by language to allow people to communicate better, they will segrigate by region, so they can have the US servers in America, the EU servers in London (probably) and the Japanese servers in Tokyo otherwise there is no point in distancing the community like that.

I also play DC universe and thier servers are based on region, whereas you can choose the US server or EU server if I played on the US server it would be almost dead because the US players are all in bed or at work when I play because of the time differance, this makes the game unplayable for people who play at odd times unless they choose the other server.

On DC universe guess what the first thing I saw was, some german chat, then some french chat, then some spanish on the EU server because there is NO reason to seperate by language because people in EU will still have terrible lag because the server will be in the US, we would only loose all the people in other parts of EU and JP.

And before people start saying they wont have servers around the world because of patches and money, all they need to do is have the patch 1 day later for the patch to be sent through a VPN to the other regions, and it would probably be cheaper after the server technicians have been trained to use the server side software for the game because they already have staff at the regional offices and could make staff at thier head office redundant because they arent needed, Also this will come with the 2.0 servers which SE dont even have except maybe a test server so they dont need to ship them over, just buy them in the regions.