Regional Servers? (Opinions please)

[3Jane]

No, n-o. ok, message too short, no.

[Nadia]

Global servers, yes please.
Regional Servers, thanks for the offer but I have to pass .
^^

[Risae]

God damnit people. This isn't about "I wanna have jp's on my server who i will never play with!". This is about the goddamn latency issue that will still be there once 2.0 hits should the servers stay in japan.

Yoshi wants the WoW audience. Should he fail to deliver the same experience WoW gives (gameplay wise), the game will bomb a second time. And the combat NEEDS to be fluent.

[Krausus]

Latency will still be an issue because the data transfer from each region, it will be less, but there will be latency issues, at least I think.

this not being a FPS then the normal latency we should come to expect in 2.0 shouldn't have an effect on game play.

As for regional servers even though I do not play with a lot of JP folks I would hate to loose contact with all my EU friends so no thanks.

[Antipika]

Oh look, this thread again. Glad we are on a forum, unlike a chat, posts remain saved for ever and thanks to the search functionality it is also convenient to find them... oh wait.

[Amsai]

Yes Please! I want regional servers that are located in my continent! If I have to leave some people behind that just "have" to stay international, then so be it. Ive already told my LS that if they offer this then our LS will be hopping to NA. There were some people that didnt like this idea, and I told them no hard feelings, do what you gotta do.

[KaplanHomahru]

Oh look, this thread again. Glad we are on a forum, unlike a chat, posts remain saved for ever and thanks to the search functionality it is also convenient to find them... oh wait.

You mean we aren't all special snowflakes?

[Amyas]

Stay global. Many players in my ls are either EU or AUS. Its always nice always having people on at different times.

[Onisake]

God damnit people. This isn't about "I wanna have jp's on my server who i will never play with!". This is about the goddamn latency issue that will still be there once 2.0 hits should the servers stay in japan.

Yoshi wants the WoW audience. Should he fail to deliver the same experience WoW gives (gameplay wise), the game will bomb a second time. And the combat NEEDS to be fluent.

I play in a JP party at least, on average, once a week. it's an excellent way to keep up on my japanese. so not all of us are in the boat 'will never play with JPs' I've started to get a decent reputation with a few LSs on JP side so i'd prefer not to have regional servers. although I understand the merit of it. I also don't think the populations of certain regions are large enough to support a server.

i can deal with latency. it's a bit annoying, sure. but unless the issue persists past 2.0 launch i'm not going to worry about it. I dealt with it for years playing FFXI. JP claimers always had a bit of an edge due to lower latency on spawns.

[3Jane]

Exactly what I said preferred EU, and as the server is still in Japan and there are still US and JP players I think calling it EU server just isn't right.

As I remember when it was designated the EU recommended server, all the EU players ran as far as they could in the opposite direction.
I ended up on Ragnarok anyway as my initial relocation to Aegis didn't work out. A decent mix of EU, JP, NA players here anyway.