Regional Servers? (Opinions please)

[Jennestia]

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.

This isn't why Tera bombed nor why SWTOR bombed and they gave better gameplay experience than WoW did -- though SWTOR's issue was it was purely single player experience.

Also, no it's not about latency that will "auto-correct by being next to the servers", what will fix the latency problems ontop of animation lag (both are present) is the new server and client, as YoshiP stated. Wanting regional servers is mainly for wanting to play with people only in your region because I've played some NA/EU/JP region only with servers located locally in my travels and it still had latency problems.

It's all in the infratructure build, not the geographical location if it's not nestled deep in the Himalayas or something.

[Dawiichan]

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.

The problem with it is that people on this forums are ignorantly saying they want global servers because they don't care about the latency issue. Which in the end, they are actually asking for the game to do worse.

[Krausus]

The problem with it is that people on this forums are ignorantly saying they want global servers because they don't care about the latency issue. Which in the end, they are actually asking for the game to do worse.

or that this is not an FPS so it doesn't matter if the latency does not effect game play. No, you're right I just want this game to do worse

[Rokien]

This isn't why Tera bombed nor why SWTOR bombed and they gave better gameplay experience than WoW did -- though SWTOR's issue was it was purely single player experience.

Also, no it's not about latency that will "auto-correct by being next to the servers", what will fix the latency problems ontop of animation lag (both are present) is the new server and client, as YoshiP stated. Wanting regional servers is mainly for wanting to play with people only in your region because I've played some NA/EU/JP region only with servers located locally in my travels and it still had latency problems.

It's all in the infratructure build, not the geographical location if it's not nestled deep in the Himalayas or something.

Welcome back??? I haven't seen a post from ya for a while, so don't know if I'm looking in the wrong threads or what, but either way, you were gone to me so Welcome back.

[udubdave]

I prefer playing with people across the globe. It makes it feel like an actual world with different languages being spoken, even though it's really mainly English, French, and Japanese.

[Yumi_Hibiki]

yeah lets all whine about the latency of the new server structure and engine that we all know exactly nothing about...

keep the servers global,
having people from all over the world active 24/7 is worth much more than that stupid milliseconds you think will help you to miraculously play like a god

and the usual "it would be optional" answer is just not realistic in this case, if they made regional servers on top of our global ones right now the current servers will simply die and you will be forced to some stupid regional server that is dead half of the day

i am from Europe, the birthplace of the fabled "WORST LAG" imaginable which is a bunch of BS anyway in my opinion, people will always make excuses

[Dawiichan]

or that this is not an FPS so it doesn't matter if the latency does not effect game play. No, you're right I just want this game to do worse

If you think only FPS games require low latency, you're in for a rude awakening.

[Mirage]

and the usual "it would be optional" answer is just not realistic in this case, if they made regional servers on top of our global ones right now the current servers will simply die and you will be forced to some stupid regional server that is dead half of the day

Oh my, global servers would be abandoned, you say? If that happened, it couldn't possibly mean that the majority preferred regional servers, right?

[Grim_Lion]

Ya, I mean, even the JP seem to think so with their /sh's (JP ONLY).

If you have to advertise that there's a population of the game you dont want to play with, you know there's a problem and its up to SE to fix it, or deal with the bitching until they do.

[Jennestia]

If you think only FPS games require low latency, you're in for a rude awakening.

Only FPS require damn near nil latency issues given the nature of the game -- in PvP in MMOs, the games are designed to give much more leeway incase someone has a less than optimal latency while connecting. It's good to have as little latency as possible, but FPS is the main genre that benefits the most from it, because most standard MMOs that rely on PvE content more so than PvP content are designed to handle higher latencies.

XIV is the exception because the foundation was already pretty poorly built.