Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Rogue]

you know these people in here complaining would be the first to complain about lag too. SE cant win.

[Elexia]

To the devs, at the very least and though I doubt we'll see any reasonably distributed servers, put a player distribution graph beside each world's name so we have more information to decide what works out best.

E.g.
Gungnir: 90% NA, 8% EU, 2% JP
Excalibur: 33% NA, 33% EU, 33% JP

1% who? D:

[Shura]

1) I'm not being small minded, and your words offend me.

2)It is absolutely NOT an issue for people who have friends all over the world. Tell your friends to join the same server. BAM! problem solved.

In fact, based on the live letter answers, the current servers will remain as they are, so you're not going to lose any of your friends unless they personally choose to abandon you for a better ping.

1. I apologize if my comment offends you but your point of view/argument is very small minded, it does not consider the situations or issues others might have. You made it sound like ppl want servers to stay global just so they can see/listen to Japanese.

2. Its not as simple as asking everyone to stay on the same server, i don't know about you but i have JP, FR and GR friends, some of my friends don't know my other friends and likewise I'm sure they all have other friends i don't know about. I can't selfishly demand they prioritize me and stay on the server.

This isn't well said. If they're willing to leave you, then they aren't really your friends.

You must not have any true friends or you treat them pretty bad, If that offends you, well that's simply how i feel when reading your argument. I can never selfishly impose on my friends and my friends have never done that to me so i can't think the way you do. Friendship is not an case of either your useful to me or your not a friend.

[Starlord]

Which completely and utterly sucks.

When SE try's to do something right to make the game run smoothly for everyone a crossed the world.. They end up get shot down with people yelling "SEGREGATION!!! SEGREGATION!!!"

In this Version we had people yelling: " STUPID LAG!! IFRIT'S PLUME GOT ME!!" >.<

You can't have cake and eat it too (that's what my grandparents always told me when I wanted everything when I was a kid) I miss them >.<.

[tymora]

Guys, I know that having a server structure like this could be a huge inconvenience for you and your friends who play on different regions. But please realize that with the way things are being set it up, this is not an insurmountable problem.

Tell your friends to join the same server.

You are *not* the only friend they have either.

[Leoheart]

1% who? D:

Npcs!

/10ch

[Faiyez]

You have to decide what is more important to you.

Which completely and utterly sucks.

I seriously wonder how you're able to handle all of your real-life dilemmas and issues, if at all.

[Darshu]

So, I live in Brazil, I have friends in EU and NA that I want to stick with. If I pretend that I care about latency, and they do too, where do we move to? If I move to EU, I'm supposedly going to have lag issues. If they move to NA, they will not have the best performance. Someone's gonna get fucked. If you assume your friends really want to be together no matter what, then there's still the chance they have other friends who can persuade them to stay near their region. This isn't an easy decision to make. On top of that, you'll miss out on the rest of the communities, who seem to be the majority, who will prefer to stay near their region. (specially new players not used to XIV one-world structure). If I pick NA, I will miss at least EU and JP. If I pick EU, I'll miss JP and NA (for the most part). This is horrible.

The game is dead right now, so whatever is left of it will be gone when 2.0 arrives. We'll be separated by regions by the sheer amount of people joining (hopefully) that will just pick the closest region to play at. This is obvious. No one picks a different far away region for no reason.

You're judging the game for how it stands now, but the reality is different with a lot of players. You NEVER need to play with JP when you don't want to if you have enough NA people playing the game, and vice-versa. A truly multicultural server provides enough for EVERYONE. It just can't be seem atm because NO ONE is playing.

[Elexia]

I seriously wonder how you're able to handle all of your IRL dilemmas and issues, if at all.

Which has to do with...?

[Xmbei]

Me to Japanese friend: Hey, you should come to the NA server, most of my friends are going there but I still want to play with ya.
Japanese friend: No, you should come to my server. Most of my friends are here in Japan, and are picking the local Japanese servers.
Me: Well gee, that sucks.
Ya:

This is why people are saying its not as simple as you make it sound. People aren't saying that yeah, it could be as easy as telling some people to go to X and X server. If you are an NA asking a EU or a Japanese player to come to your server to hang with you, they basically have to sign up for:

1. Low latency
2. Different prime times
3. Depending on the destination server, etc, may or may not speak the language of most of the players.

If you ask someone to join your server, which is based on your region, it invariably sets them up for a gameplay advantage. It is not as easy as "Hey, come join my server" and 'bam,' it's done. Someone has to decide to get a little screwed over. That's what people are upset about. Someone either gets the short end of the stick, or they get all the perks.

then you make the sacrifice, if you don't want to, then don't blame SE or the friends. Things happen, what will you do if the person quits? your going to hunt them down to play with them still? If the friendship is that valuable and still want to talk with them with out sacrificing playtime, get off game connection to communicate with them. I did it with all my FFXI friends as we all trickled off of XI we still talk and have fun but omg we aren't playing together. I don't blame SE on this I will make the effort to spend time with friends I have made, just because you can't do it, don't get upset.