Quote Originally Posted by Dawiichan View Post
I don't understand why people are so against it. Some servers are located elsewhere, some are located in Japan. Why do they all have to be in Japan? If you ask me that's just selfish. Even if most people don't go to a global server, doesn't that mean that keeping them all global was a bad idea from the start?
It has no reason not to exist in Japan as I can promise you if you load up a Japanese website just as quick as you do a non-japanese based website, physical locations is not the problem.

Fun fact: A lot of website hosting is based in the UK and Canada, hosts a lot of people use and experience no latency problems or bandwidth problems.

It's not "selfishness" -- wanting servers next to you is more selfish than having the servers where the development team is, if anything it's a lot smarter to keep the servers where the dev team is. Keeping them global was a good idea and it worked for FFXI for many years and worked for XIV -- the issue with XIV is, as stated, the client and server infrastructure, not the geographical location.

It's 2012, ever since the late 1990s physical locations of servers had so little impact on services it's almost hard to tell they're not located next to you unless you're on a particularly bad ISP.

I mean, we've already seen the outcome of it in Ifrit Extreme.
So all the NA/EU players that happen to have a relic live in Japan...?