Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Delsus]

Not had posing priveliges back for long and I haven't put given my thoughts on this, so here's my 2 gil:

This is the worse idea SE has come up with, there is a good chance a NA server will be dead outside NA primetime and same with EU servers, partly because there are multiples. I played DCUO on a NA server for a bit before the mega servers came in, and it was dead, I saw about 10 people in a week on an apparently more populated server. So there is a good chance for some people to stay with friends we will need to stay awake until 4-5am to do anything, not just LS events.

The only time we wouldn't is if we segregate and move to our region's servers, this is what I can see happening, SE will not segregate us, we will segregate ourselves. Lets say 80% of the EU population (I use this because I am in UK) move to EU servers, and the other 20% are scattered on NA servers, depending on the amount of servers each region gets that could let's say there are going to be 5 NA servers, that could make (with these numbers pulled out of my ass) 4% of EU population on each NA server this is a very small amount of people that could very well struggle to find people to play with at their primetime, and would make them move to an EU server just to get things done and bam we are segregated based on region.

Before I get flamed too much I do plan to stay with my LS and see how things go, but I may well be forced to move server if I cannot get too much done.

Then there is the friends I have waiting on PS3 release who all plan to join the same server as me, this is a mix of RL friends who live in the UK, and some friends I met on FFXI living in the US, and despite all having stopped playing we still talk, so what am I supposed to do about that? Force RL friends to possibly play on a server that could be dead when they want to play, or do the same for my US friends? All this on top of my international LS that I do not want to leave.

[Breladine]

but I may well be forced to move server if I cannot get too much done.

Who says you'll even have the opportunity to move again after-the-fact?

I've yet to see official information stating we will have more than one opportunity to choose a server.. granted I think it would be absurd for them to only give one opportunity, considering we may not know if one datacenter or another is going to be better for us (some people may be partially in betweeen two centers for example), but still as of yet I haven't seen anything official on it unless I've missed it.

[Delsus]

Who says you'll even have the opportunity to move again after-the-fact?

I've yet to see official information stating we will have more than one opportunity to choose a server.. granted I think it would be absurd for them to only give one opportunity, considering we may not know if one datacenter or another is going to be better for us (some people may be partially in betweeen two centers for example), but still as of yet I haven't seen anything official on it unless I've missed it.

I remember somewhere they said they wanted to make it easier to move servers if you wanted.