Letter from the Producer, XXXII (07/23/2012)

[Seif]

I really hope for same servers for everyone and not the Tera situation. I want to see more people in the world even if they aren't in my pt.

[AsterBarnivere]

Yep and after the failure that was Tera..SE has a good chance to snatch up Korean playerbase as they tend to play Chinese MMOs as well. (That actually lets them in.)

Blade and Soul currently has koreans atm... (NCSoft is Korea's SE y'know)

[Elexia]

I really hope for same servers for everyone and not the Tera situation. I want to see more people in the world even if they aren't in my pt.

People don't want this for FFXIV, they want everything in an Instance especially if there's the possibility of the dreaded C word popping up (Competition), so that ship has sailed sadly. D:

Blade and Soul currently has koreans atm... (NCSoft is Korea's SE y'know)

Hmm, yeah that's true.

[Tricksy]

As much as I welcome any new player to final fantasy, Chinese people are the most elitist gamers in the world. I really hope we get segregated servers cause I'd rather not be denied every kind of group cause im not running around with a Relic and Full Dark light. @.@

I want separate Chinese servers. And if not that, then seperate NA servers.

No offense but Japanese players have more then enough xenophobia for me. Wont play, talk or do anything with US players for the most part. A lot worse than in FF11.

[Alerith]

I want separate Chinese servers. And if not that, then seperate NA servers.

No offense but Japanese players have more then enough xenophobia for me. Wont play, talk or do anything with US players for the most part. A lot worse than in FF11.

This is horribly misguided and ignorant. The Japanese in XIV are no worse than NA or EU players. Each group has players willing, unwilling, and rude when it comes to playing with the others.

To single out the Japanese side as worse than NA and wanting separate servers for the Chinese because of this misconception is just childish.

[KiriA500]

No offense but Japanese players have more then enough xenophobia for me. Wont play, talk or do anything with US players for the most part. A lot worse than in FF11.

Xenophobia doesn't fix xenophobia.

[Hyrist]

Well, all fears about FFXIV being a success enough to maintain just went out the window.

Tapping China for their playerbase is a good thing for the game's future. It insures that the game will get enough of a following to maintain it's longevity as China is a HUGE MMO gaming market. Even garnering a fraction of the active player base means that FFXIV will have a huge subscription base. In fact, the total numbers now stand a chance of beating FFXI's current base purely on Chinese subscriptions alone.

I cannot stress this enough, this was a wise move on SE's part.

Now, that said, China itself is a pretty isolated part of the world for many reasons, and there is indeed the concern of rampant RMT and cross-culture shock in the game. People who make calls of Xenophibia seem to forget that the Early Days of FFXI were worse than FFXIV is now due to several factors. Hopefully the more open group content will help resolve that problem, and may even enable some integration from our fellow Chineese players, if it is chose to do so.

Personally, what I see is a "Any way you want." Approach coming from SE here soon. I think, they are going to release both Region Locked and Region Free servers for 2.0. As it provides the best play options for everyone. Though I the current servers will remain Region Free, so yes, keeping your character in your current server likely will garner meeting some new Chinese members later on down the line. I'm not terribly concerned about that.

My fears about this game reaching a stable enough population to maintain now has been eased with this news, however. Yoshida did find a way to manage to keep his full crew on board after all, and by doing what even FFXI feared to touch.

[Tricksy]

Xenophobia doesn't fix xenophobia.

Dont get me wrong I love the Japanese players! I invite them to my ls all the time so we can have exotic members... but they always let the invite time-elapse.

I would love to play with them like I did in FF11. But maybe the auto-translate isnt as good in this game, or the population isnt as full and thats affecting it, who knows.

Nah Im straight up weaboo (jk) I love reading about their culture, religion, anime, society, games and technology and for awhile I was a Sony fanboi fanning the flames of PS3>360 for no reason other then I love the Japanese.

But they just seem crueler in FF14 than in FF11. I really meant no offense.

[Jynx]

Hyrist chances are it's not SE that wants to bar Chinese players from the servers but more of China wanting to bar it's citizens from the other servers.

[Tricksy]

Well, all fears about FFXIV being a success enough to maintain just went out the window.

Tapping China for their playerbase is a good thing for the game's future. It insures that the game will get enough of a following to maintain it's longevity as China is a HUGE MMO gaming market. Even garnering a fraction of the active player base means that FFXIV will have a huge subscription base. In fact, the total numbers now stand a chance of beating FFXI's current base purely on Chinese subscriptions alone.

I cannot stress this enough, this was a wise move on SE's part.

Now, that said, China itself is a pretty isolated part of the world for many reasons, and there is indeed the concern of rampant RMT and cross-culture shock in the game. People who make calls of Xenophibia seem to forget that the Early Days of FFXI were worse than FFXIV is now due to several factors. Hopefully the more open group content will help resolve that problem, and may even enable some integration from our fellow Chineese players, if it is chose to do so.

Personally, what I see is a "Any way you want." Approach coming from SE here soon. I think, they are going to release both Region Locked and Region Free servers for 2.0. As it provides the best play options for everyone. Though I the current servers will remain Region Free, so yes, keeping your character in your current server likely will garner meeting some new Chinese members later on down the line. I'm not terribly concerned about that.

My fears about this game reaching a stable enough population to maintain now has been eased with this news, however. Yoshida did find a way to manage to keep his full crew on board after all, and by doing what even FFXI feared to touch.

So its for sure? Chinese are sharing serves with us? but I thought China enforced segregated servers?

Also, as hesitant as I am about the explosion in Chinese players. Im sure it'll be good over all for the economy and such. A healthy population makes an MMO always alot more fun.

Thing is I know ill have to blist a lot of Chinese players rmt or otherwise, because /chat could be fulll full full of chinese. Japanese seem really considerate about not spaming chat with Japanese, although I have blisted a few who were "wwwww"ing it up all the time.