Servers for each Region

[SolArisa]

Why is that??

Because a huge reason for me to play are the people I play with. I want to meet people from all over the world. Thanks to Square Enix I, who live in Switzerland, have real life friends in the UK, Germany, Thailand, Israel, Florida, California, New York, Oregon. And with "real life" I actually mean real life, like knowing and visiting those outside of the game, too. For example, we had linkshell meetings in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (2 times), Florida, and now California in 3 weeks with several people attending several or even all of them. This year alone I had two visitors from different countries and continents at my place and I may be visiting someone in Bangkok next November. SE practices globalization in its purest form, and I sincerely hope they will never stop with it and allow me to happily see people of different cultures and countries from all around the world playing together for another decade. And I'll continue to avoid those tons of other MMORPGs which are regional and PC only - I'll leave those to the people who think that the world ends a few miles east of NYC.

Most MMO have regional server and most of the time they are localized servers too which makes it for smoother gameplay.

That's a myth. We're not in the 90s anymore, differences in global round trip times are a matter of a few tens of milliseconds maximum.

[Delsus]

Because a huge reason for me to play are the people I play with. I want to meet people from all over the world. Thanks to Square Enix I, who live in Switzerland, have real life friends in the UK, Germany, Thailand, Israel, Florida, California, New York, Oregon. And with "real life" I actually mean real life, like knowing and visiting those outside of the game, too. For example, we had linkshell meetings in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (2 times), Florida, and now California in 3 weeks with several people attending several or even all of them. This year alone I had two visitors from different countries and continents at my place and I may be visiting someone in Bangkok next November. SE practices globalization in its purest form, and I sincerely hope they will never stop with it and allow me to happily see people of different cultures and countries from all around the world playing together for another decade. And I'll continue to avoid those tons of other MMORPGs which are regional and PC only - I'll leave those to the people who think that the world ends a few miles east of NYC.



That's a myth. We're not in the 90s anymore, differences in global round trip times are a matter of a few tens of milliseconds maximum.

+1 to this, the only reason I have not met the people I have met in game irl is entirely financial, there is one person in paticular I want to see more than anything in New Jearsy I met on FFXI, but right now I cannot afford a £500 flight over there, absolutely no other reason.

[Jinko]

That's a myth. We're not in the 90s anymore, differences in global round trip times are a matter of a few tens of milliseconds maximum.

It's actually quite a lot more than that.

[Duelle]

That's a myth. We're not in the 90s anymore, differences in global round trip times are a matter of a few tens of milliseconds maximum.

I somehow doubt that if the whole thing with Ifrit's attacks still hitting people despite being out of range client side still continues to happen.

[Ramsey]

I somehow doubt that if the whole thing with Ifrit's attacks still hitting people despite being out of range client side still continues to happen.

This has nothing to do with server location, and everything to do with the protocols the game is using. There are various ways of handling what data is handled client side, what data is handled server side, what data is sent, how many checks that data goes through, and how those checks are applied.

It's a case of poor decision making, not a case of "the server is too far away."