Square Enix, Stop Ignoring Players distant from datacenters in FFXIV

[grinkdaboy]

all i want is an NA east data center. that's all. i don't know who was asking for an OCE one because the OCE people i knew had no interest in leaving (the only ones i know who have are ones that are southeast asian), they all told me that they grew accustomed to playing at high ping

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

all i want is an NA east data center. that's all. i don't know who was asking for an OCE one because the OCE people i knew had no interest in leaving (the only ones i know who have are ones that are southeast asian), they all told me that they grew accustomed to playing at high ping

It used to be a fairly common request here on the forums. And they had a fan event the devs went to in Australia where they experienced it themselves.



Those posts have obviously died off now, and I'm sure the DC didn't fill up as expected from all the buzz the topic used to draw.



This is likely one of those catch-22s. SE is terrible if they don't add them, but if they do and no one switches, we'll, what was the point. Data centers cost a ton of money (not just buildings, servers, networking, etc.). My job is supporting DC infrastructure, and builds of a few dozen servers cost in the millions.



It's not as cheap as people seem to think it is, and that's capital expenses, which companies are loath to spend.

[Rockette]

all i want is an NA east data center. that's all. i don't know who was asking for an OCE one because the OCE people i knew had no interest in leaving (the only ones i know who have are ones that are southeast asian), they all told me that they grew accustomed to playing at high ping

The Japanese wanted it so we'd get off Tonberry. That's 100% the motivation behind OCE. Unfortunately, SE listened to them that it was the "Australians" that was the issue when really the biggest English community there is SEA.

Who ping higher to Aus.

So they didn't move.

[RobynDaBank]

The Japanese wanted it so we'd get off Tonberry. That's 100% the motivation behind OCE. Unfortunately, SE listened to them that it was the "Australians" that was the issue when really the biggest English community there is SEA.

Who ping higher to Aus.

So they didn't move.

Yep. As an Indian I ping around ~70-80 ms on Singaporean servers for example, like PoE or Steam download servers. Australia connections though, ping worse for me than even NA or JP.

[Rockette]

Yep. As an Indian I ping around ~70-80 ms on Singaporean servers for example, like PoE or Steam download servers. Australia connections though, ping worse for me than even NA or JP.

A SEA player wrote an interesting post a while ago that it wasn't just geographically bad but also the NTT network routing is horrific. Pair that with Australian copper and no one outside aus/nz is having a good time.

[DixieBellOCE]

A SEA player wrote an interesting post a while ago that it wasn't just geographically bad but also the NTT network routing is horrific. Pair that with Australian copper and no one is having a good time.

The sad thing is that people from SEA are registered to NA and OCE locations because the game is unavailable in those countries.

If Square Enix actually did any kind of research before caving into the JP playerbase's request to get rid of english players, they would have realized that 70%+ of the English Playerbase on JP servers were SEA players.

Australians were the minority, as we always are. Overall we just got screwed on both ends, and the English community got split.

Now we have 5 dead servers and the English playerbase on Elemental is smaller than ever.

I ended up moving to NA because 200 ping isnt that big of a deal compared to 2 hour queues on materia.

[Mika_Zahard]

The Japanese wanted it so we'd get off Tonberry. That's 100% the motivation behind OCE. Unfortunately, SE listened to them that it was the "Australians" that was the issue when really the biggest English community there is SEA.

Who ping higher to Aus.

So they didn't move.

I wasnt aware SE held all the aussies at gunpoint to force them to move towards OCE servers.

Shocked