Yoshida-san - GLOBAL Servers and Balancing Tweaks Instead of Regional Servers

[Jynx]

It's a old chinese proverb. A man who chases two rabbits lets them both get away, and like everything it doesn't apply to all aspects of life.

Really the people in the middleground are the people in the right, because the new servers could still be in Japan and would still experience less lag. They were connected to Japan at gamescone with no visible lag on commands or anything showing that the game is much more responsive than it currently is (Probably due to letting more stuff be checked client side).

But the people for the data centers either don't think it will be enough or are just ignorant to the fact the servers were the issue and not the latency.

[Kuzak]

It's a old chinese proverb. A man who chases two rabbits lets them both get away, and like everything it doesn't apply to all aspects of life.

Really the people in the middleground are the people in the right, because the new servers could still be in Japan and would still experience less lag. They were connected to Japan at gamescone with no visible lag on commands or anything showing that the game is much more responsive than it currently is (Probably due to letting more stuff be checked client side).

But the people for the data centers either don't think it will be enough or are just ignorant to the fact the servers were the issue and not the latency.

Didn't the Japanese players in FFXI have a small advantage when it came to camping HNMs due to lower latency?

[Jynx]

Didn't the Japanese players in FFXI have a small advantage when it came to camping HNMs due to lower latency?

I've never had a hard time outclaiming Japanese players. But I guess I must be a special exception like everything I do.

Also it's not like there is anything in the game you need to claim faster on, considering 9/10ths of the game is going to be crammed into instances anyways.

[Kuzak]

Also it's not like there is anything in the game you need to claim faster on, considering 9/10ths of the game is going to be crammed into instances anyways.

And thank goodness for that.