Servers for each Region

[Delsus]

I am from the UK and would also prefer local servers, so I can understand where he is coming from.

I don't mind playing with French and German players, infact I do quite often, but I am not up for staying up til 4am to play with people from my Linkshell who are mostly US players and don't see why I should have to put up with 250ms of extra latency either.

I have a worldwide linkshell and can get things done any time, they are all friends and I do not want to be forcably pulled appart, SE could have something up thier sleeves for latancy (even with the internet's unreliable speed) there are things they can do for that.

FFXI had servers in Japan and no one complained, STO has one server based in US (Yes EU and US play together) no one complains.

[Jinko]

I have a worldwide linkshell and can get things done any time, they are all friends and I do not want to be forcably pulled appart, SE could have something up thier sleeves for latancy (even with the internet's unreliable speed) there are things they can do for that.

Nobody is forcing you apart, the people above already suggested international servers.

You can't solve latency issues like that, the distance travelled is the distance travelled.

FFXI had servers in Japan and no one complained, STO has one server based in US (Yes EU and US play together) no one complains.

FFXI was an exceptional slow paced game with slow mechanics and slow bosses.

Us server are about 100-120 ms for me Japanese and Asia servers are 300ms, big difference. the French WoW server is 50 ms.

You can try and shrug it off all you like but you aren't' fooling anyone, FFXI indeed lol.

Tera is launching soon and they plan to have both US and EU servers, why do you think they did this ? when they could have just hosted their servers from Korea .. ?

GW2 will be the same, hell even free to play MMO's these days have EU servers.

[Delsus]

Nobody is forcing you apart, the people above already suggested international servers.

You can't solve latency issues like that, the distance travelled is the distance travelled.



FFXI was an exceptional slow paced game with slow mechanics and slow bosses.

Us server are about 100-120 ms for me Japanese and Asia servers are 300ms, big difference. the French WoW server is 50 ms.

You can try and shrug it off all you like but you aren't' fooling anyone, FFXI indeed lol.

Tera is launching soon and they plan to have both US and EU servers, why do you think they did this ? when they could have just hosted their servers from Korea .. ?

GW2 will be the same, hell even free to play MMO's these days have EU servers.

Just some distances from you (from Lees, UK)

Tokyo: 5852 miles
San Fransico: 5207 Miles

So 645 miles differance, you my friend have some problem 645 miles should never add 200ms to a ping, yes I know to get to Japan we have to go through the middle east but that should not add 200ms to a ping ever.

[Jinko]

So 645 miles differance, you my friend have some problem 645 miles should never add 200ms to a ping, yes I know to get to Japan we have to go through the middle east but that should not add 200ms to a ping ever.

Actually to get to SE's server I have to go through America.

Edit:- (although it seems not any more, last tracerp went through america , doesn't change the fact that its still 303 ms)

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  BTHomeHub.home [192.168.1.xxx]
  2    28 ms    28 ms    28 ms  217.32.141.5
  3    28 ms    28 ms    29 ms  217.32.140.222
  4    32 ms    32 ms    32 ms  213.120.161.98
  5    34 ms    33 ms    34 ms  217.41.222.10
  6    33 ms    33 ms    32 ms  217.41.222.178
  7    33 ms    33 ms    33 ms  acc1-10GigE-0-0-0-6.bm.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.248.82]
  8    50 ms    47 ms    47 ms  core1-te0-3-0-3.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.248.20]
  9    58 ms    43 ms    43 ms  peer3te0-0-5-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.254.34]
 10   189 ms   190 ms   189 ms  gw5.lax1.asianetcom.net [195.66.225.168]
 11   284 ms   284 ms   285 ms  gi8-0-0.cr1.nrt1.asianetcom.net [202.147.0.121]
 12   287 ms   287 ms   287 ms  gi1-0-0.gw1.nrt5.asianetcom.net [202.147.0.178]
 13   302 ms   302 ms   303 ms  squareco.asianetcom.net [203.192.149.210]
 14   302 ms   302 ms   302 ms  61.195.56.129
 15   302 ms   302 ms   303 ms  219.117.144.2
 16   300 ms   300 ms   300 ms  219.117.146.149
 17   302 ms   302 ms   303 ms  219.117.146.129
 18   301 ms   316 ms   301 ms  219.117.146.38
 19   304 ms   303 ms   303 ms  202.67.52.81

If you think you any better off lets see your results smart guy.

tracert -h 50 traceip.ffxiv.com

[Delsus]

Actually to get to SE's server I have to go through America.

Then your ISP has priorities set wrong, its faster to go straight over the europe and the middle east, but from your retarded post in the the authenticator app page you are doing are just really thick.

Btw tested my ping on speedtest.net, using my phone's 3g signal and I got a 390ms ping to Tokyo (SE's server have known problems test a clean connection because come 2.0 their entire infrastructure will be swapped out)

And a 270 ping to San Fransico, so a 120ms differance, as I said thats on a phone's 3g connection.

So yeah your ISP is just fail.

[Jinko]

but from your retarded post in the the authenticator app page you are doing are just really thick

LOL what ?

You are using speedtest.net and not a tracert test, um yea I'm really thick.

[Delsus]

LOL what ?

where you can't even see we are arguing the same point against each other, go to that thread and read it, you know every word I have posed in it and you will see.

[Elexia]

FFXI was an exceptional slow paced game with slow mechanics and slow bosses

We've definitely played a different FFXI. Did you fight Provenance Watcher? Lol slow paced. The only "slow paced" bosses were the original rank missions bosses, every expansion the bosses were a lot more active to the point you had to be on your toes.

By the way, FFXI being "slow paced" still had nothing to do with the servers being in Japan, because those servers were a hell of a lot more optimized than XIV's.

Ironically, you say you belittle no one's opinions..yet as usual, you do whenever XI is mentioned.

[Antipika]

We've definitely played a different FFXI. Did you fight Provenance Watcher? Lol slow paced. The only "slow paced" bosses were the original rank missions bosses, every expansion the bosses were a lot more active to the point you had to be on your toes.

By the way, FFXI being "slow paced" still had nothing to do with the servers being in Japan, because those servers were a hell of a lot more optimized than XIV's.

Ironically, you say you belittle no one's opinions..yet as usual, you do whenever XI is mentioned.

Did you ever play anything beside XI and XIV? When I mean play it's at a high level (so raiding etc.) If yes then you would understand how XI is slow paced, and there is no need to use recent content as Provenance Watcher to try to justify than XI is a fast paced game.

Overall, it is slow compared to most MMOs in the market.

Could it be WoW, Aion, Rift, SWTOR or even older games like DAoC,... These are fast paced games, where lot of abilities have typically have a 1.50sec or less casting time. Lot of instants abilities (but coupled with a GCD that's 1~1.5sec, still). Lot of mechanisms involving very fast movement from players in order to survive, etc. Cooldowns are typically very short. Encounters are short but very intense.

XI had nothing of this and still don't as of today (even if yes it did become slightly faster). You don't make your point valid by being an XI or XIV player only. You do if you played both of these games alongside other triple A titles in the past decade. That would allow you to say if a game is slow or fast paced. Being slow or fast is relative to others products in the market.