FFXIV Servers, are needed ?

[Soukyuu]

I don't understand why you expect the US to be different from Europe. If you're basing this solely on physical distance from Japan, they're practically the same, depending on where you are in either continent. Distance, as others have said, has little to nothing to do with it.

That's because there are many providers who route the signal from the EU to US and THEN to Japan. So yeah, we do have a higher latency than US people.

It's especially frustrating when you hear people talk about #10 chains when yours cut off at #4 because it takes the server up to 10 seconds to register a chain on a laggy day.