Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Ruisu]

I have NA friends and EU friends. There is no way I could possibly ever convince them to play on the same server as mine if it ends up being a JP world. Not only that but I would expect non JP population to fall drastically, meaning you are effectively segregating communities that have already been together for 2 years now.

If you can't convince people to stay on the server you're on just because it's Japanese, that kind of just says that they would rather be on a regional server to begin with.

And no, "make new friends" is not an option. Sorry if I actually care about the people I play this game with.

Woah woah woah, I never even said to resort to that. Most of my Linkshell is EU, so if they decide to stick to their EU servers then I'd probably head over that way as well. Though they'll probably stick to our current server.

That isn't my point though. My point is that people wanted better latency, and now that we're getting that they don't want it because of the unique international community? Were they expecting server hops to disappear and that everyone in Australia or France would have the same latency as someone from Japan on Japanese servers all while on the same world?

[Irondude]

is easy for you, but is not easy for me, i have spend 2 years playing with friends i've made in this server, and to be told that is not going to be freaking easy. If im still a kid, i will most probably forget it, but im a full adult, memories and pain stays longer.

yeahhhhhh I know me too sorry.
has it been stated that on release you can reroll to a new server though? I think its just for new character creation.

[Reika]

Thank god for this, im in UK but Im going on a USA server first chance i get, cant stand this european and japanese language text in my chat box any more its doing my head in every day seeing languages i dont understand. Dont really care if i get slight lag just want a server where most people chat in english.

Oh at least your honest. Im sure hundreds of 'Your Kind' are also jumping for joy in all regions too.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

We thought it would be like this one..

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/05...sing-rulesets/

[Tinks]

I'm disappointed by this as well. For me, the non-regional servers is one of my biggest draws to SE MMO's. I made friends from all around the world through FFXI (to the point that we all gather for vacation every few years even after we all quit playing XI years ago) and I'd never have met them with regional servers.

I'm not sure what, if anything, they can do to change this decision at this point, but I'm not happy about it. I think its going to seriously impact the community dynamic and I don't think it will be for the better. One of the best parts of this game is that my close group of friends, my small linkshell, has people from literally all over the world. We may all choose to stay on the same server, but what about the new players for ARR? They probably won't get the same experiences to meet people from different countries and cultures because they'll pick their own regional server.

It might be good for latancy, but I don't think its good for the community.

[Colino]

If you can't convince people to stay on the server you're on just because it's Japanese, that kind of just says that they would rather be on a regional server to begin with.

So when one of my LSs decides to go to an NA server and the other wants to go to a EU server, I just have to willingly cut the amount of friends I have in half?

I play at all sorts of different hours of the day and speak several languages, because of both these things the non-regional system is absolutely perfect for me because I get to play with lots of different people and be active in several LSs.

What SE is doing will make this effectively impossible and it WILL destroy some communities.

Woah woah woah, I never even said to resort to that. Most of my Linkshell is EU, so if they decide to stick to their EU servers then I'd probably head over that way as well. Though they'll probably stick to our current server.

Someone else did right after you, sorry I didn't quote them.

[Elexia]

The funny part is, FFXI isn't separated like this yet all of it's checks are perfectly fine because they dump a lot onto the client rather than servers like XIV.

[Zezlar]

I want to know how they expect players who can't speak Japanese to possibly want to choose a Japanese server. It's basically going to become the unofficial "JP come here, you go somewhere else" server. It's already in the shouts, now it will be an even bigger problem.

[Chardrizard]

One of the worst ever decisions, if you already reduce ARR animation locks and lags issue by massive amount, whats the use of this? Im sorry even if cross-server content finder works perfectly, people will start becoming distant if they are not in one server because u wont be talking to them alot.

I am sure i will make new friends, but it will sucks to be losing the old one because of this region bullshit.

Here i will say it again, bullshit.

[Antipika]

So where are all players with their crazy theory about "datacenters" being all connected together to Tokyo servers etc. Can't wait now for people who have no background in networks achitecture to come to this thread and tell what SE should do instead

Stay mad. I will enjoy my 30ms latency.