Physical/regional servers FINALLY confirmed ??! (Y)

[Dragonheart]

I hate latency, bring on regional servers. For someone like me who did heroic modes in WoW, playing FFXIV just seems like it plays like crap in terms of responsiveness.

Uh finally that knows what i'm talk about...! I think the major part of ppl that doesn't want regional server, didn't play any other mmo except XI ... They don't know how is important the latency is in really challenging fight like wow hard modes or swtor nightmares... (If we get that level of challenge anyway ..lol)...

[Dragonheart]

People faired perfectly fine in Final Fantasy XI...Hell they even had "FUN"

Even if XI latency was better, it was a dead slow and even more static game worse than XIV (but it was ok 10 years, ago but now really NO. ) So the latency feeling was better.

Never played FFXI so can't comment on that, but did you ever play a fast paced MMO (WoW for example) with a ping over 200?

This, i remember when there where rarely laggy night with 300-400 ms of latency (full server in italian primetime) and most intelligent thing to do was skip the raid night cuz even if it was slightly playable (still better than XIV lol) .. you had no chance to survive with that latency (avoid boss special moves, kill fast the boss cuz you know, in modern game there is the "enrage" usually in 10-15 min).

As i said before, people are "stuck" on XI or never tried High leven endgame in other games, and this is the greatest problem. Guess why Yoshi-P invited the team play a bunch of western MMO :P

[Ingolf]

Uh finally that knows what i'm talk about...! I think the major part of ppl that doesn't want regional server, didn't play any other mmo except XI ... They don't know how is important the latency in really challenging fight like wow hard modes or swtor nightmares... (If we get that level of challenge anyway ..lol)...

Twitch gameplay isn't the only type of challenge. There's plenty of challenging possibilities that don't require a perfect latency.

I ran Urgoz Warren on hard mode in GW1 (just after the release) on American servers (I live in the UK).

[Jynx]

As i said before, people are "stuck" on XI, and this is the great problem.

Sound more like your "Stuck" on twitch gameplay mechanics.

[Dragonheart]

Sound more like your "Stuck" on twitch gameplay mechanics.

I tried almost every tipe of mmo, i started with XI (played for 5 years, but now in 2012 i will never back on a such slow game) , then i stayed on wow for 3 years, then XIV, rift, swtor, and lastly tera, without mention the lolf2p.

So imho i have e better idea of what ppl wants than who has played only XI.. No?

And again, guess why Yoshi-P invited the team to play many western mmo... He said the jp developer where good only at make single player games (well imho in this gen, not even them) .

[Jinko]

I'd be happy with regional servers, I'll be sad to leave my LS and friends but I would rather have better response times.

Hopefully they announce it, they will no doubt keep international servers for those who want to stay on them, probably just new servers for 2.0 players.

People faired perfectly fine in Final Fantasy XI...Hell they even had "FUN"

LOL this game is many times faster paced than FFXI, nice try though.

XIV is far from being as twitchy as WoW.

1.x perhaps.. who knows what they have planned for 2.0, faster servers mean they can do more interesting battles, if players aren't getting good enough response times you end up with stuff like current Ifrit.

Hell I play in Canada and get far from a "Superb" ping to japan yet I managed to play Theif who is highly dependant on position of monsters and twitch timing including multiple gear swaps and I never felt the grief that many other people seem to flaunt.

LOL if you think Theif is twitch timing you obviously haven't played a recent MMO. (WoW boss fight)

Dragonheart speaks the truth, besides Jynx why are you even arguing about this it seems Yoshi-p has made up his mind and has something to tell us when the time is right, if you don't like it too bad.

Im sure they will keep international servers for those who want it.

[Onidemon]

Honestly I'd be really happy with locized servers. Playing with pple around the world sounds nice but it brings more problems than good things.

Lag is one. The you have the communication barrier. Lets say you join a high population server but I'd just happens that this server has a 30-40% population of Japanese players. That's a big chunk of pple that probably don't speak English and who might not be able to play with. Also there is the time zone issue where these players don't play at the same time you do. With that 30-40% population not really being reachable that makes your high pop server a Med to low one.

You can make friends anywhere in the world. It matters more to have smooth enjoyable game play and to be able to communicate and play with 100% of the server.

[Suraj]

As long as they don't force anyone to regional servers or make those exclusive to much better response timing (which I don't think it's what'll happen), I'm happy.

Personally I prefer an international one. Communicating with people from all over the world is what I seek mostly in a MMO.

[Dragonheart]

I'd be happy with regional servers, I'll be sad to leave my LS and friends but I would rather have better response times.

Hopefully they announce it, they will no doubt keep international servers for those who want to stay on them, probably just new servers for 2.0 players.



LOL this game is many times faster paced than FFXI, nice try though.



1.x perhaps.. who knows what they have planned for 2.0, faster servers mean they can do more interesting battles, if players aren't getting good enough response times you end up with stuff like current Ifrit.



LOL if you think Theif is twitch timing you obviously haven't played a recent MMO. (WoW boss fight)

Dragonheart speaks the truth, besides Jynx why are you even arguing about this it seems Yoshi-p has made up his mind and has something to tell us when the time is right, if you don't like it too bad.

Im sure they will keep international servers for those who want it.

Thanks Jinko, someone that understand what i mean ...

Guys, if i say that it's because i have a lot of friends that left xiv cuz of lag first of all!

Most of them are now doing Nightmare modes on SW (and some of them are crazy hard yeah)...

So when i show them a video of what has been implemented on XIV, like Chimera, Garuda and etc. they simply laugh at me saying things like:

-What kind of gameplay is that? All bind to the ground spamming actions?
-WTF ranged shooting besides the rock and they don't get loss of target??
- Why everything feels so heavy, slow and static?
- Lol everyone ranged, 5 same class in a pt, where is the balance? etc

And i simply can't contrast -what they say because i played always with them, did many first kill on wow (like lich king hm ) and so i know what they mean.

SO i REALLY hope that 2.0 will succeed for me, ( so i can tell them that i was hoping the right :P) , and for all the ppl that quitted before like my friends to bring them back.

[Akira_Tenshi]

No thanks to regional servers.