Tokyo - Rolling Blackouts through Summer

[Arcell]

Well I'm assuming they'll know the schedule of the blackouts and will likely treat it like a maintenance downtime. Servers will be off between these times, deal with it.

Also I believe someone here used the wrong wording for "put servers in other parts of the world." I don't think he was suggesting region specific servers, but instead to have servers in NA/EU. Unfortunately this is still unlikely to happen. I honestly don't care either way though, SE's gotta do what they gotta do.

[Cendres]

Who said anything about segregated servers?

Onidemon :3

Region dedicated sounds a lot like separate servers to me.

[Nuru]

Maybe not separate servers, but wouldn't the server hosts be connected to the other regions? This way we could all get a great response time.

I really don't know if that is even possible though, I have no clue how servers work.

[Shelia]

There is a simple solution to this.... Region dedicated servers. Have some servers in NA and Europe and leave the current servers for Asia. Yes i'm talking about splitting the players into their own region.

This will reduce lag a lot and also NA and Europe won't be affected by these blackouts. It might seem unfair for the Asian players but from a business point of view it is better to save 2 regions then penalize everyone. In it's current state FFXIV can't afford much more down time....

Uhm, well, this wouldn't be a problem if FFXIV's population per server was above 1000 people. lol

As the servers currently are... if we separated into region-onry, there would be only like... probably less than a couple hundred per server... which is a total waste of a server. Besides, there's no real need for it. I don't mind playing with other people who don't speak my language.

Even if the game goes down for a little, it's not like any of us are missing much. lol

[Moth]

This information troubles me :c

[Malakhim]

As long as it doesn't impede any work being done currently I'm cool.

Otherwise oh geez...

[Onidemon]

Uhm, well, this wouldn't be a problem if FFXIV's population per server was above 1000 people. lol

As the servers currently are... if we separated into region-onry, there would be only like... probably less than a couple hundred per server... which is a total waste of a server. Besides, there's no real need for it. I don't mind playing with other people who don't speak my language.

Even if the game goes down for a little, it's not like any of us are missing much. lol

Well it could be good once we get a solid player base.

[Akumu]

Uhm, well, this wouldn't be a problem if FFXIV's population per server was above 1000 people. lol

As the servers currently are... if we separated into region-onry, there would be only like... probably less than a couple hundred per server... which is a total waste of a server. Besides, there's no real need for it. I don't mind playing with other people who don't speak my language.

Even if the game goes down for a little, it's not like any of us are missing much. lol

I hope SE doesn't split up the players. Playing with such a diverse group is one reason I loved XI over other MMOs(besides enjoying the game itself). If something happens in Japan and they have to shut it down then I will just deal.

[Coombah]

This information troubles me :c

I agree, I can see it going back to alpha/beta play times..

[Grit]

There is very little chance that SE would consider moving the servers outside of Japan.

And there is even less chance that they would decide to segregate servers by region.. that ship has pretty much sailed.

Realistically, the devs are going to have to deal with the power conservation and rolling blackouts, while we deal with the servers going off-line from time to time.