Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Breladine]

People always make new friends, they just happen to not all be from one region.

Since you clearly don't value friendship as much as other people do, it's understandable why you use the term "freak out", when it's perfectly reasonable to be upset people will be separated from friends they care about.

But there's nothing wrong with having friends only from one region.

When I joined WoW I chose a PST server in hopes that I'd find the most people playing in my time-frame and maybe even find some people who were semi-local (and I've done both quite readily). Are there people from other timezones? Sure, of course.. but I didn't join the server to run raids at 3pm while I'm at work because it's 7pm on the East Coast for others, I joined to get the best chance to find people in my timeframe.

In the case of FFXIV , it's both time-frame and countries and language.. and once people start talking about countries and language, people start throwing around the term "racist" like children who think they know what they're talking about.

Wanting to be with people who are in a similar region as you, even if it means you have less contact with people outside of that region, is not a bad thing. People need to get over it.

If you have friends that you consider "close" outside of your region then why don't you extend that friendship over other social media and enjoy portions of real life with them, rather than just a game. In the long run, you're going to make new friends and be just as bloody happy if you allow yourself to be happy (which many people seem unwilling to do) on a server that is based on the datacenter closest to you.

If people would stop whining about it, they'd see there's nothing wrong with the way this is going down.

[Elexia]

But there's nothing wrong with having friends only from one region.

There is nothing wrong with it, but what if I want to befriend people from multiple regions? Much like when I head back to Japan I make friends, when I go to France I make friends, when I go to India I make friends and so on. It's not a relationship where you're allowed to be with only one person (unless you're a slut), some people just simply make friends with anyone regardless of nationality lol.

Wanting to be with people who are in a similar region as you, even if it means you have less contact with people outside of that region, is not a bad thing. People need to get over it.

People need to get over the fact some are honestly upset they may and most likely will be separated from friends they made who play from Japan or Germany for example, yet you're essentially saying they're wrong for that.

[Breladine]

People need to get over the fact some are honestly upset they may and most likely will be separated from friends they made who play from Japan or Germany for example, yet you're essentially saying they're wrong for that.

If it means I lag more just because you want to play with people from Japan? Then yes, I'll say it: You're wrong.

I can't enjoy the game with the amount of lag I experience now (that isn't based on my system, which is a high-performance rig) and that would be the ultimate killer for me going into 2.0, more so than anything else. I'd rather make new friends on a more local data center and have less lag. That's the bottom line for me and I'm not ashamed of having my own personal opinion and standing up for it, even if it differs from that of other people.

[Elexia]

If it means I lag more just because you want to play with people from Japan? Then yes, I'll say it: You're wrong.

I can't enjoy the game with the amount of lag I experience now (that isn't based on my system, which is a high-performance rig)

So in your beliefs, people are wrong for making friends outside of their own kind, ok.

Also, XIV is unoptimized so your "high performance rig" means jack shit when SE themselves stated the a buggy mess, so it's the game itself that was performing poorly regardless of specs.

I''m not ashamed of having my own personal opinion and standing up for it, even if it differs from that of other people.

That's fine, however you're telling everyone else they're wrong for believing otherwise. You're worse than Christians at that point lol.

[Croy]

There is nothing wrong with it, but what if I want to befriend people from multiple regions? Much like when I head back to Japan I make friends, when I go to France I make friends, when I go to India I make friends and so on. It's not a relationship where you're allowed to be with only one person (unless you're a slut), some people just simply make friends with anyone regardless of nationality lol.



People need to get over the fact some are honestly upset they may and most likely will be separated from friends they made who play from Japan or Germany for example, yet you're essentially saying they're wrong for that.

First off they're not segregating the current servers (or any servers technically), second you could easily make a second character in your other friends servers if you wanted so its not like you couldn't play with them if you wanted, we are getting access to a total of 40 characters to make how we please in 2.0. The solution they came up with is a middle ground, there actually ARE a ton of people that wanted regional servers, they already exist now among other things (Ragnarok). The only change is they are finally giving the people who have had huge lag spikes the 'option' to go to those other servers if they feel they can afford to abandon the friends they have established on the old server. Yes sometimes whole communities will migrate because of these changes. They are wedges I wish wouldn't happen but people have been pleading/asking for regional data centers for years even in FFXI where the lag was significantly less then the current game. The solution they came up with is the closest to a middle ground they could afford to do between two very different communal styles.

[Jennestia]

If you have friends that you consider "close" outside of your region then why don't you extend that friendship over other social media and enjoy portions of real life with them, rather than just a game.

What if you already do this as well as enjoying playing games with them, especially an MMORPG that allowed you to play with them when you can't physically due to geographical location?