Quote Originally Posted by Ava View Post
As someone looking to play with other people, I'd prefer regional servers because of time zones most specifically. I want to play with people that have play times around the same times that I play. I can't make accommodations to play on EU or JP times and if linkshells have to recruit people that can make these times, then it's quite inconvenient for me.

However, as a social person, I love the international servers. Unfortunately I play MMOs for more than socializing and at the moment I would have to take the side of wanting region specific servers. Has nothing to do with anything racial or whatever, it's purely time zone inconvenience.

With that said, though, I am glad they are doing server merges and it will make me reconsider paying the sub fee. I've been playing with 1.20 stuff the past few days and I like it, but the fact that there is only ~300-350 people (including AFKs) online on my server at any given time of my day (US CST) is kind of crappy. It's impossible to find anything outside of the linkshell and even that seems slow (probably due to SWTOR).
i like the idea of playing with time zones, but if the servers were done the way yoshi wants it and you have 1500-2000 on prime times on each time zone wouldn't that be better than regional servers?

the reason i say this is you may only play during the week in the evenings so you will be on during those hours and regional servers are great for that. the problem comes into if you have a day off and decided to jump in game round noon. regional servers would be ghost towns at noon. you have problems sleeping at night and hop on at 3am and once again you are in a mmo by yourself.

in global servers that is one of the advantages of them. if i get on at noon i jump on with the players from other areas. i may have some trouble communicating with them because i do not speak my language, but that doesn't stop half of my friends list from being jp/fr.

i have met some great people from other areas and am very rarely left out of one of their parties because i have made efforts to speak to the majority of the jp players on my server so most of them know who i am and know that i am joining a party with them to have fun. yes, i do not speak their language at all, but they do know that i am willing to try to speak with them using the translator or google to at least try to get the basics of what they are saying to me.

if i only got on at na primetime and never once signed in at any other time then i would not see an issue with being on a regional server. the thing is on days off or sleepless nights i am liable to be on at any time so i like a global server because i would not be on with the turbo crafters and npc's only.