Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
It's not because they're in Japan, this has been debunked by not only players but Square Enix themselves numerous times. It has to do with the poor server equipment and online interface of an unoptimized game. However europe in general has a native problem connecting to even American based online games, so if anything you can say it's because of being in europe region is your problem.

I have zero delay in FFXI, a Japanese based MMORPG when I play from America and even when I was visiting family in Canada and France I still had no delay with that game, so no it's not because it's in Japan, it's because the game is unoptimized and the servers are poor.

It's not like trying to play a Korean only MMO in EU where you need a VPN that's slower than dial-up.
Uh? I don't get what you mean with Zero delay. Theres is not such thing in nature that resembles to a "Zero Delay". The faster method of comunitation know to men (practically impossible right now) is using a pair of atoms in the same Quantum State but even with that you have a time to decode/encode.

FFXI suffer of the same problem that XIV and any other mmo server based, that the distance between you and the server add a time between the time you press a bottom and the result shows up on the screen. The other class of mmo are the client based that the client control all the interaction with the world and reports it back to the server. That kind of client feels like a offline game but generally is easily hackable.

Having a US located server will help a lot with the lag that people experience. Even if they improve to the better possible their network/hardware there will be always the time that take the package you sent get to the server.