FFXIV Servers being brought to NA/EU No Longer JP Only

[Yucie]

Data centers aren't regional servers...

Regional servers are isolated per region, as the name suggests. Now, I'm not an IT professional, but I think that data centers in different regions would allow one to have slightly better latency if one is closer to them.. but they'd all be interconnected, and worldwide servers are connected via this method.

I'm pretty sure they won't isolate players by region. That's silly.

[Zumi]

Data centers aren't regional servers...

Regional servers are isolated per region, as the name suggests. Now, I'm not an IT professional, but I think that data centers in different regions would allow one to have slightly better latency if one is closer to them.. but they'd all be interconnected, and worldwide servers are connected via this method.

I'm pretty sure they won't isolate players by region. That's silly.

A data center refers to a place which houses servers. Each regions servers won't be interconnected like someone already said they won't have 3 instances on 3 different server with people linked together can't happened.

The way it works is like this
JP datacenter (World A) (World B) (World C) ---> (Japan Instance server)
Players from the 3 JP worlds when they enter a cross server group actually get sent to a separate server.

NA datacenter (World A) (World B) (World C) ---> (NA Instance server)
EU datacenter (World A) (World B) (World C) ---> (EU Instance server)

However Yoshi said you can play in any region you wanted and were not limited to your own region.

[Mijin]

Data centers aren't regional servers...

Regional servers are isolated per region, as the name suggests. Now, I'm not an IT professional, but I think that data centers in different regions would allow one to have slightly better latency if one is closer to them.. but they'd all be interconnected, and worldwide servers are connected via this method.

I'm pretty sure they won't isolate players by region. That's silly.

While it may seem silly in what ever corner of the gaming world you come from, it's a reality to most MMO Players. Most MMORPG's (including some of the big names) have regional servers. This really shouldn't come as a shock, it's not often that Japanese players play or interact with anyone who isn't Japanese anyway.

To me when Yoshida says, "The players will have a choice of selecting a server based in their region or a server overseas," it means they're making the servers regional. Like I already mentioned what you guys are suggesting isn't even possible to the extent of my knowledge.

I think you guys are also getting confused about what a data center is. A data center is a place that houses servers like mentioned in the post above. Please read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center

It's true that FFXI uses multi-regional servers, but FFXI was also released in 2002, and development for the game started well before the new millenium; to give you an idea of how long ago, I can remember FFIX, X, and XI all being announced at the same time shortly after the release of VIII... Things are a lot different now than they were then, servers are cheaper, and the MMO industry has grown up.