A new hope rises for LA Data Center!

[SecretIsland]

It took a lot of convincing for them to make an Oceania data center. You people will need to do the same! Good luck.

[Lenora_Sixel]

It took a lot of convincing for them to make an Oceania data center. You people will need to do the same! Good luck.

I'm sure it will, friend! Thanks for your support

[Ransu]

It took a lot of convincing for them to make an Oceania data center. You people will need to do the same! Good luck.

A DC that will probably only last two years, so I wouldn't hold my breath if I were them. Oceanic servers historically for almost every game get built and then shutdown extremely fast.

[Zalleh]

When Square Enix moved the NA servers from Montreal to California it was the worst thing that has ever happened to me in this game. In Brazil, and in my city (São Paulo which I assume is also the city with most players as it is the largest one) ALL of the ISPs route from Europe to get to California, making it essentially mandatory to subscribe to a VPN service. For me, playing without a VPN means 300ms latency, sometimes more.

It feels really bad. I started playing day one, so I bought the game from Square Enix's website. Most Brazilian (and non-dollar or euro countries) pay the sub through Steam. They have a fixed dollar conversion rate that is basically over half the current dollar price. Since you can't own both PC licenses, I don't have that option. Forever in this state because I decided to support the game early. Not only do I have to pay an arm and a leg to play the game I love the most, ever, I also have to pay a VPN subscription fee (most of them also charge in USD, which is terrible right now).

At the beginning I tried mudfish, but their tunnels from here aren't that great. I settled for one whose pricing is not abusive, but it's really sad to have to go through all these hoops (and absurd extra cost) to play. A server here would be nice, since I could probably cut the VPN sub. With data center travel I don't have to worry much about missing out on the community that I already know in Aether.

The whole having a server here thing would be pretty nice. Hope it happens one day. I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation. Sure, my predicament is a bit worse than the regular Brazilian because of the inability to use the Steam wallet, but if you want to play without tearing your hair out you still need a VPN no matter what. I've heard that people that live far North closer to the Caribbean have it a bit better, but most ISPs use almost the same routing. I know mine (the biggest one) doesn't bother adapting to the geographic location of the client to route. So the large majority is still in the same situation...

Here's for hoping...

[ItMe]

A DC that will probably only last two years, so I wouldn't hold my breath if I were them. Oceanic servers historically for almost every game get built and then shutdown extremely fast.

Interesting.
Why is that?

[Shibi]

Interesting.
Why is that?

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/9qlwqq53 is one older thread on it on a popular Aussie forum. Mostly they have big plans, so release with a server - then realise they don't have the numbers in the first few days so merge them back into the USA.

In FFXIV it's not been done that way, so the numbers are there before the servers are created. As long as oceanic people move in to fill them - even with alts - they will remain. DCs cost a hella lot of money. This announcement surprised me, and I hope LatAm can have the same joy one day if their numbers hold up.

[ItMe]

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/9qlwqq53 is one older thread on it on a popular Aussie forum. Mostly they have big plans, so release with a server - then realise they don't have the numbers in the first few days so merge them back into the USA.

In FFXIV it's not been done that way, so the numbers are there before the servers are created. As long as oceanic people move in to fill them - even with alts - they will remain. DCs cost a hella lot of money. This announcement surprised me, and I hope LatAm can have the same joy one day if their numbers hold up.

Ah, I understand.
Thank you for the info and for the link~

[Melorie]

It's quite impressive how this game is localized in German/French and not Spanish which would reach way more people (I'm not criticizing the localization for french or german, it's just interesting).

A LA data center would be nice since our ping can make harder content quite frustrating, depending on the fight, but as someone that lives in South America, I honestly feel that it's almost like we don't exist for (most) asian game companies, so I don't really have a lot of hope.

Sounds like yall need to learn english like rest of the world. I'm not english native. I had to learn the language and my secondary language.

C'mon. Stop acting like people that want a localization or a server with better ping are lazy people that don't want to learn english. That's quite far from the truth, a lot of latinos are used to playing games in english already, there's nothing wrong with wanting to see how the story plays out in your native language (I don't even speak spanish, so I wouldn't benefit from this, but as someone that enjoys learning languages, the more options of localization a game has, the better).