NA and EU data centers confirmed.

[Antipika]

I don't know of a single MMO that does that. SE said you can still play on not your own regions servers though.

The only thing it means is that it won't be region locked like in WoW, SWTOR or Rift. An NA WoW account cannot be used on EU servers. Same for SWTOR etc. The list of server displayed will only be the ones of the region of your account.

For XIV, the way I read it is

"You can pick any server you want, regardless of its geographical situation and the region of your SQEX Account".

So as a French player, using an EU account, I could play on an EU, NA or JP server. World transfer between these as well. But playing on NA or JP will mean higher latency for me. Others MMO don't allow that. You are only free to move from servers to servers within your region. (Which often have a single language tied to them for EU.)

Edit : Nvm I did reread your post, we say the same

Cross connecting servers and keeping them in sync is not hard, and it will not cause more lag, a standard internet connection fluctuates a lot because of potential problems a long the path, however if SE gets control of how the traffic moves it can reduce lag a lot

By 50~70ms top from EU to JP. That's not a lot and would still remain 200ms+ for EU. If you want to reduce that by "a lot", be the next Nobel prize in physics and find a new way for data to transit faster across the globe.

[Catapult]

Given that there is unlikely to be an Australian server, I will just go where my friends go.

[Yellow]

Or just stay in an international server that is hopefully located in JP..

;3; Do we get better latency in JP? or the US?

[Soukyuu]

Or just stay in an international server that is hopefully located in JP..

;3; Do we get better latency in JP? or the US?

Depends on your ISP, or rather the route your ISP choses for your signal.

The advantage of having the 3(?) data centers connected by SE would be them choosing an optimal route between the data centers instead of leaving it to our ISPs. There is much less chances for an EU ISP to screw up a route to an EU server than to a JP one after all.

[Mijin]

The Japanese have been pushing way harder for regional servers than we have. Use a translator and check this thread with more than 1000 posts: dedicated server for each language
I'll warn you before you read it though, there are some very racist posts.

A lot of you in this thread are really confused by what a data center is. A data center is just a place that houses servers.

These are the direct words from Yohida's mouth:

The players will have a choice of selecting a server based in their region or a server overseas

I really don't know how people are getting confused about this. It seems pretty clear to me. Either this is a horrible misunderstanding, or you guys are trying to make your wishes become a reality by believing they are true hard enough.

[Risae]

The Japanese have been pushing way harder for regional servers than we have. Use a translator and check this thread with more than 1000 posts: dedicated server for each language
I'll warn you before you read it though, there are some very racist posts.

A lot of you in this thread are really confused by what a data center is. A data center is just a place that houses servers.

These are the direct words from Yohida's mouth: I really don't know how people are getting confused about this. It seems pretty clear to me. Either this is a horrible misunderstanding, or you guys are trying to make your wishes become a reality by believing they are true hard enough.

Jesus christ, what the hell is wrong with the japanese?

Now i'm all up for the regional servers. Japanese players my ass.

[PandaTaru]

A lot of you in this thread are really confused by what a data center is. A data center is just a place that houses servers.

These are the direct words from Yohida's mouth:

The players will have a choice of selecting a server based in their region or a server overseas

I really don't know how people are getting confused about this. It seems pretty clear to me. Either this is a horrible misunderstanding, or you guys are trying to make your wishes become a reality by believing they are true hard enough.

Probably because Cloud computing is trendy nowadays. And some don't seem to realize how much processing lag sync'ing servers would add to their laggy gameplay experience compared to the current, simple, latency lag.

[Mijin]

Probably because Cloud computing is trendy nowadays. And some don't seem to realize how much processing lag sync'ing servers would add to their laggy gameplay experience compared to the current, simple, latency lag.

My understanding of cloud computing related to gaming is instead of having a your own server farm for your game you buy server space from a ton of random hosts. It's usually used for games with low subs, and the benefit is that you get one gigantic world instead of unique instances of the game on separate dedicated servers. The trade off is instead of lagging when a bunch of people are gathered in one spot you just lag all the time lol.

Unless my understanding is totally wrong there is no way this could be what Yhosida was talking about. For one you would have to totally reword the game from the group up, and you would have to basically just be wasting the servers they already paid for. In addition to that he wouldn't be talking about servers or worlds at all, because we would have just one big world instead.

[Coris]

I simply don't want to get separated D:
Not sure where they'll put the servers in the EU, but there are far less players from the EU than NA which could mean that there won't be so many people to play with.
I also don't want to choose again which friends I'll follow and which I'll leave behind.
By the way there was a reason why I didn't go to Ragnarok....

[Mijin]

I simply don't want to get separated D:
Not sure where they'll put the servers in the EU, but there are far less players from the EU than NA which could mean that there won't be so many people to play with.
I also don't want to choose again which friends I'll follow and which I'll leave behind.
By the way there was a reason why I didn't go to Ragnarok....

You will have the option to play on a NA server, and will probably even have less lag. Just not quite as much less as if you played on an EU server.