Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Irondude]

It's not INTENDED but it WILL separate the community by language and region.

community vs. lag death
that's what it boils down too plain and simple.

[Karbine]

It's not INTENDED but it WILL separate the community by language and region.

community vs. lag death
that's what it boils down too plain and simple.

It sounds harsh but that will be the outcome.

It also means alot of us will have to reshuffle worlds. Being that I don't want to play on a laggy server, and my current one might have a data center in Japan.

[Tonkra]

It's not INTENDED but it WILL separate the community by language and region.

community vs. lag death
that's what it boils down too plain and simple.

i think the lags we have now are more due to server architecture than the distance.

ever played an japan mmorpg and experienced that extreme lag issue as well? Phantasy star online for example? no..

[Rane]

i think the lags we have now are more due to server architecture than the distance.

ever played an japan mmorpg and experienced that extreme lag issue as well? Phantasy star online for example? no..

I believe you're right. I played WoW on a U.S. east coast server back when I was living in Japan. I never had any problems with latency.

[Reika]

i think the lags we have now are more due to server architecture than the distance.

ever played an japan mmorpg and experienced that extreme lag issue as well? Phantasy star online for example? no..

If the new server's architecture will greatly reduce the lag, combined with them making actions more client-side to reduce the lag there, Why even have all of this separation?

I too played WoW from a different contry to the US, freakin Iraq, and the only problem was the slow unstable 500kb connection we were limited to. it wasnt even that that bad with that.

[Faiyez]

If the new server's architecture will greatly reduce the lag, combined with them making actions more client-side to reduce the lag there, Why even have all of this separation?

Because lag can't be eliminated. Is it that hard to understand?

Sheesh.

[Reika]

Because lag can't be eliminated. Is it that hard to understand?

Sheesh.

Lag cant be eliminated even if the server is in the same city as you. Do you even understand what I was asking?

They are taking the more important steps to fix what was causing the latency issue. 1: the servers themselves were garbage and 2: to much server-side response was required for player actions.

3: seperate servers, would only be to make segragationists aka closet racists feel better. Comments like "I dont have to read japanese chat on my screen" just shows what people are really thinking. Latency lol... thats the least of whats on their mind. And yea, Im just gonna throw that word out that. thats how I feel about it.

[Antipika]

3: seperate servers, would only be to make segragationists aka closet racists feel better. Comments like "I dont have to read japanese chat on my screen" just shows what people are really thinking. Latency lol... thats the least of whats on their mind. And yea, Im just gonna throw that word out that. thats how I feel about it.

Haha that's the best, now we're racists. How many more posts until we reach Godwin's law?

[Reika]

Haha that's the best, now we're racists. How many more posts until we reach Godwin's law?

If you "dont want to have to read other langauges on your screen" you probably have some kind of racist veiws you might not even know you have. which is why I used 'Closet Racist'. And is why I used that comment as an example of that term.

[Faiyez]

3: seperate servers, would only be to make segragationists aka closet racists feel better. Comments like "I dont have to read japanese chat on my screen"

Not me.

I had a lot of fun getting JP's to craft certain equipment for me because they were the only one's available to do so early on in 1.0.

So it was all about shouting in Japanese to get their attention, looking up the Japanese names of the items and terms to copy paste them on tells, together with using the translate feature. Hardly ideal, but it was a blast.

And that's just an example, and it's okay of I lose that in exchange for a legitimate improvement to the game environment. Just because you want separate servers doesn't mean you're a racist.