Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Faiyez]

Why they didn't just keep the same sort of server structure is beyond me.

Because it was very badly built and people made sure to let SE know about it.

[Rjain]

Because it was very badly built and people made sure to let SE know about it.

Yeah that's why XI failed horribly.

Hey wait a second.

[Faiyez]

Yeah that's why XI failed horribly.

Hey wait a second.

You're talking about a game that launched before WoW did. Luckily, standards have gone up since then.

[Croy]

Yeah that's why XI failed horribly.

Hey wait a second.

FFXI server structure was horrible and ill fitted for a modern MMO. They had to put claim lag on their servers to keep JP from having an unfair advantage in claiming NMs, and although fun Ballista suffered in a similar way when fighting people between regions. Just because it was less noticeable does not mean it was non-existent. FFXIV is just so much worse from FFXI we delude ourselves in thinking it was acceptable for todays standards, hint, its not for most people. People 'coped' with it. I know plenty that were shouting from the roof tops hoping for servers to be spread out so people at least had the option not being second best to the JP side.

[Astora]

Yeah that's why XI failed horribly.

Hey wait a second.

For all we know, they could have. XI was designed and built for PS2 on a 56k connection, PC was a completely after thought. XI is also 10 years old, the internet and its tubes have come a long way where latency really shouldn't be an issue for XI tiny packets.

X|V is a beast on bandwidth which causes the large latency issues. I wouldn't be surprised if it ran worse on XI's architecture.