Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Priya]

with the new content, new combat system and pvp, we need optimal respond time

This.

Dear lord.... SE can just put a guesting (from GW2)/battle net/cross realm zone type of thing (from WoW) in and be done with it.

Everyone with friends on other servers can keep them on their friend list, talk all day long, join parties, zones etc. And everyone else doesn't have to sacrifice latency for social networking.

If you have no idea what any of that is, here (Google for more information):

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08...nsfers-and-re/ (Guesting hasn't been implemented yet, so the info is a bit limited.)

http://us.battle.net/en/realid/ (This doesn't say it, but you can join dungeons and raid finder with battle net people on other servers in WoW-- You can also display a Gamer Tag instead of your real name)

http://www.wowwiki.com/Cross-realm_zones -- This is where you can make raids with people from other zones... I don't play WoW currently, but I believe if they're on your friends list there isn't a barrier.

SE can probably make their own variation of any one of these things. The technology is there.


Again, if you include all of the new players ARR is supposed to bring in (who have no friends, yet), the majority of people will be perfectly fine with regional servers. You can't have faster combat, without faster data transfers... same with PvP advantages/disadvantages. SE would have to choose between its new battle system and the current one-- which one do you think they're going to pick?

I don't think anyone understands that SE's goal is to bring in MORE people; if it goes well, the current player base will become the minority-- this game is no longer about keeping/making you happy.

[Melina]

This is horrible news.

[Dragonheart]

This is horrible news.

Well for me is the best news ever :P

[Arkh]

You guys really need to check other game if you think a better latency is a bad thing. Update a bit, you are stuck at 10 years ago lol

[Resheph]

I think this is great news and it won't really change the experience for most players.

[Mijin]

I think this is great news and it won't really change the experience for most players.

I agree, I'm very pleased with the addition of regional servers.

[Faiyez]

So I have to choose between lag and NAs? >_________________________________>

There is a false dichotomy here.

This is just a bunch of people bickering and moaning because it won't be as easy for them to get all their friends together. Everyone still has a choice to play with whoever they want, if they want to.

[Lum]

This is great news. Less lag with less auto translate, I'm happy.

[Colino]

The way I understand this( and I skipped like 10~12 pages of discussion) Data Centers are limited to region but Worlds aren't

Well you're not understanding it properly, sorry.

No world is "limited", to each world they assign a data center, so essentially while the worlds aren't limited they will be preferred based on their assigned data center, which WILL segregate the communities that have been playing together on global servers for 2 years now.

[Starlord]

Well you're not understanding it properly, sorry.

I think alot of people have said this line... hmmm I wonder which person is "actually" understanding it .