Servers for each Region

[Delsus]

Thats why it should be planned prior to the new servers, that way they can buy and build them at the same time in different places around the world.

SE have a US headquaters and they have Edios in Europe so it makes sense, granted their main programmers are in Japan but like I say other MMO's manage it just fine.

Its the cost of it, to upgrade all thier equipment in San Fransico and London (most likey places) will cost the atleast 50k, possibly over 100k, SE has dumped alot of money into this game already, and 2.0 has (while we all hope this turns out to be wrong) the possibility of failure, do you really think SE want to pay that much and see 2.0 fail?

I have no idea how big the server rooms in thier regional offices are either, it could require physical expasion of thier offices to accomodate the servers, which is extra cost. It may come if the game ends up a success and they are confident to spend the money, but before its a success no way in hell.

[Jinko]

Its the cost of it, to upgrade all thier equipment in San Fransico and London (most likey places) will cost the atleast 50k, possibly over 100k, SE has dumped alot of money into this game already, and 2.0 has (while we all hope this turns out to be wrong) the possibility of failure, do you really think SE want to pay that much and see 2.0 fail?

Thats still doesn't change the fact that free to play manage to pull it off.

They have to build these servers anyway, so why not build them in specific regions ?

I have no idea how big the server rooms in thier regional offices are either, it could require physical expasion of thier offices to accomodate the servers, which is extra cost. It may come if the game ends up a success and they are confident to spend the money, but before its a success no way in hell.

I think making the choice after 2.0 is the worst thing they can do, it would require much more work and upheaval after the game is running than prior.

As much as I want regional/local servers I am also realistic and know that the chances are next to zero mainly because .. well it's SE we are talking about.

[Delsus]

Thats still doesn't change the fact that free to play manage to pull it off.

They have to build these servers anyway, so why not build them in specific regions ?



I think making the choice after 2.0 is the worst thing they can do, it would require much more work and upheaval after the game is running than prior.

And why do you think they started charging for a broken game, because they wanted to see money coming in after 1.5yrs they could only take it loosing thousands a month because of that.

Possibly, but what if they dump lets say 300k including the cost of new equipment, staff to configure it (wish that would be me but they arent advertising for network admins in London yet) physical expansion and possibly getting the servers to thier respective regions so the devs can configure them.

Then the game flops again, and they close down, because we all know 2.0 is its last lifeline, they have to make that extra 300k from somewhere it will take them awhile to recover from that kind of loss.