How many people want a server in AUS/NZ region?

[SleepyNeko]

I seriously doubt it would ever happen - our population is a drop in the ocean to some European countries who are grouped together under the one region. Also, ability lag isn't just affected by your geographical location and how far away as the crow flies you are from the server, it also depends on what path your ISP routes you to it, often bouncing you around different countries and networks before you reach SE's servers (which SE has no control over). And as US players attest, often being in the same country as the game servers doesn't always help when the ISP will still route you to another country during that simply due to how the networks are set up. Having a server for your geographical region is not a magic bullet that will suddenly give you excellent latency (also it's well known NIN has a delay built into it's abilities and attacks for technical reasons, so being in the same region won't help anyway).

There was a recent response from Yoshi about putting servers in Aus if they can work out something about undersea cables but havent heard anything since. I dont think the routing issue will have much impact since AUS and NZ pretty much shares the same cables. Also I have no issues playing as NIN anywhere in Japan and have no routing issues within JP. I am speaking from experience since I was recently playing from NZ just a few weeks ago and it does suddenly give me execellent latency with NIN even with inferior service (the JP connections at net cafes only give me 300 to 600 mbps while the nz ones give me 800 to 980 mbps)

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

There was a recent response from Yoshi about putting servers in Aus if they can work out something about undersea cables but havent heard anything since. I dont think the routing issue will have much impact since AUS and NZ pretty much shares the same cables. Also I have no issues playing as NIN anywhere in Japan and have no routing issues within JP. I am speaking from experience since I was recently playing from NZ just a few weeks ago and it does suddenly give me execellent latency with NIN even with inferior service (the JP connections at net cafes only give me 300 to 600 mbps while the nz ones give me 800 to 980 mbps)

I think you are misunderstanding how Bandwidth and latency work.

In that case, the internet cafe only has "inferior" service in terms of bandwidth. XIV barely uses any data. The difference in terms of game response between a 30mb connection and a 1000mb connection for XIV is nothing XIV uses less than 100 kb/s. What matters is latency. Which is why the JPN connection was better. Higher bandwidth is only good for downloads and 4k streams.

[matteoxyz]

I would love to have 30ms ping but I doubt there are enough oceanic players to justify it to SE.