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

[Jynx]

It's a shame a larger playerbase seems more important to those silly guys playing EVE they could be saving millseconds I tell you!

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

The fact of the matter is, the majority of players want a better gameplay experience. This cannot be fully achieved with servers on the other side of the globe. Sorry.

[Aenarion]

The fact of the matter is, the majority of players want a better gameplay experience. This cannot be fully achieved with servers on the other side of the globe. Sorry.

other games do it all the time, what's so special about FF14 that makes it impossible?

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

other games do it all the time, what's so special about FF14 that makes it impossible?

Let's not play 'know-it-all' with latency. Especially when no one has played ARR yet. Either you don't understand latency or never been a position where it ruined your gaming experience.

I happen to know a thing or two about both and so do many others. It's a no brainer. What do you want? To be on an international server with players who mostly ignore you, and rightfully so, to avoid getting lost in translation. Or a regional server where you have awesome response times and better PvP and raiding gameplay experience?

You know, not everyone signs into an MMO with the number one goal being to treat it like a chat room and connect with different walks of life, though it is really nice and will be missed, most people log in to, you know, beat content and play the actual game. I know, shocking.

[Aenarion]

Let's not play 'know-it-all' with latency. Especially when no one has played ARR yet. Either you don't understand latency or never been a position where it ruined your gaming experience.

false assumptions that happen to be wrong on both counts, next.

I happen to know a thing or two about both and so do many others. It's a no brainer. What do you want? To be on an international server with players who mostly ignore you, and rightfully so, to avoid getting lost in translation. Or a regional server where you have awesome response times and better PvP and raiding gameplay experience?

Funny, I didn't realize those were supposed to be mutually exclusive. I guess I'd best go back to Eve and tell all the Russians, Brits, Germans, Aussies, French,Chinese and Japanese players that we're not supposed to understand or actually acknowledge each other, and I should go tell CCP that they should manually add in lag for every non-UK players since that's how things are supposed to be when the server isn't in your home country.

You know, not everyone signs into an MMO with the number one goal being to treat it like a chat room and connect with different walks of life, though it is really nice and will be missed, most people log in to, you know, beat content and play the actual game. I know, shocking.

You know, when you post a response to someone on a forum, it's generally a sign of intelligence if you actually respond, well, intelligently, instead of trying to make a bunch of unsubstantiated assumptions and baseless implications.

[Rogue]

what has EVE online got to do with anything?

[Jynx]

what has EVE online got to do with anything?

It's a MMO with a global server and would do well for reaction times with regional servers. Yet nobody seems to think the loss of community is the lesser of two evils.

People are acting like the global community is a bunch of assholes or something that will never speak/play with you when many of us who play with the global community know different.

[Alhanelem]

other games do it all the time, what's so special about FF14 that makes it impossible?

All the time? hardly. Most games not only have regional servers, but lock people in different regions out of the other servers.

You know, not everyone signs into an MMO with the number one goal being to treat it like a chat room and connect with different walks of life, though it is really nice and will be missed, most people log in to, you know, beat content and play the actual game. I know, shocking.

Pretty much sums up how I feel about the whole issue.

[Colino]

All the time? hardly. Most games not only have regional servers, but lock people in different regions out of the other servers.

He said OTHER games do it all the time (as in there are games other than FFXIV that do it, including his full explanation on EVE which you completely skipped like you did with every valid argument), not ALL games do it.

Again, quit twisting what other people are saying to your benefit.

[Alhanelem]

He said OTHER games do it all the time (as in there are games other than FFXIV that do it, including his full explanation on EVE which you completely skipped like you did with every valid argument), not ALL games do it.

Again, quit twisting what other people are saying to your benefit.

I'm not twisting anything anywhere. "All the time" implies that it is ubiquitous and common. The fact is, it's not. That's not twisting to my benefit, that's refuting a statement that's clearly wrong. After all, a single game can technically only "do it" once, unless they switch server models more than once in their life time. This reinforces the use of "all the time" to refer to ubiquity and commonness as I described.

The simple rule here is to not use radical generalizations and superlatives when they don't really apply.