Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Elexia]

What is this, I don't even... your comment makes no sense.

You stated this specifically:

I do find it laughable that people are threatening to quit over not playing with people they already can't communicate effectively with (in 99% of cases)

You essentially said the ones threatening to quit weren't even able to communicate with people of other regions to begin with, thus you find it laughable when if anyone quits because they'll lose friends they play with from other regions, chances are they can communicate with them, so it's not "99% of the cases" when no one would quit over not being able to play with people they can't even communicate with lol.

Umm... what?

Like others have said, when you connect to XI from the US, for example in CA, you're actually connecting to a data center and not directly to Japan.

[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?

[Alhanelem]

You stated this specifically:



You essentially said the ones threatening to quit weren't even able to communicate with people of other regions to begin with, thus you find it laughable when if anyone quits because they'll lose friends they play with from other regions, chances are they can communicate with them, so it's not "99% of the cases" when no one would quit over not being able to play with people they can't even communicate with lol.



Like others have said, when you connect to XI from the US, for example in CA, you're actually connecting to a data center and not directly to Japan.

THEY WON'T LOSE FRIENDS IN OTHER REGIONS. TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN THE SAME SERVER AND YOU CAN STILL DO SO. THE SERVERS ARE NOT REGION LOCKED.

Yes, people who join an NA server won't be getting random parties from JP players. But the vast majority of them (again, easily 99%) can't communicate effectively with them anyway- autotranslate only gets you so far.

[Dragonheart]

And now it turns out nobody has lag issues on the current version.

/facepalm

Yeah it's incredible how ppl complain versus a good thing.

If Yoshida e co. had to listen all the XI player, or every "Rokien" . Probably we where all playing
in the stone age now...

[Dragonheart]

THEY WON'T LOSE FRIENDS IN OTHER REGIONS. TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN THE SAME SERVER AND YOU CAN STILL DO SO. THE SERVERS ARE NOT REGION LOCKED.

Let's see if the crying ppl now understand this.

[Leoheart]

THEY WON'T LOSE FRIENDS IN OTHER REGIONS. TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN THE SAME SERVER AND YOU CAN STILL DO SO. THE SERVERS ARE NOT REGION LOCKED.

But what about your friends friends? Lol
It isn't just about the individual, it's a massive chain of it.

[Elexia]

THEY WON'T LOSE FRIENDS IN OTHER REGIONS. TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN THE SAME SERVER AND YOU CAN STILL DO SO. THE SERVERS ARE NOT REGION LOCKED.

No one said a damn thing about region locking. People will choose the server closest to them, which means logically why the would NA or JP or AU players randomly be plopped onto an EU data center?

[Belisaire]

Those decisions shouldn't be taken by clueless people no so. Polls aren't good for everything. Hence why I am glad that Yoshida and his team did step-up and decided to do this.

lol wut

I feel like any paying customer should be able to give their opinion on,

"Which do you want more? Completely international servers all in Japan, with lag? Or optional, local servers, but with current latency?"

It's not a technical question. It's a question of preference. o.O

[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.

[Alhanelem]

It's just like before the game came out when peopel were forming guilds/linkshells. You just all agree to pick a certain server.

ON TOP OF THIS, --EVERYONE-- yes everyone will be able to make a character on every server.

which is why I used 'Closet Racist'.

Preferring to see your own language doesn't automatically make you racist. Also, many languages are not tied to a single race and "racist" isn't even the correct term.