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

[Starlord]

I like how your responce starlord, did not include "world" as an option.

In fact, youve basically helped prove my point. If the options are EU/NA/JP, "new" NA people will pick NA, and most of you are claiming that NA people will still pick other servers, which is rediculous. If a world server is not an option, the population will not mix, it is basically region locked reguardless of what people say. SE is just pulling a R.kelly and calling it rain.

Lol, well I'm sure even the new players will find out that there are other databases that they could try if they want a "international" feel. But at first suspect NA being with NA EU being with EU and JP being with JP, except for us because well.. we know about it :P. but it doesn't reeally bother me though.. However, I know it will effect other people. So I understand what your talking about.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Basically, your saying your going to be mostly soloing... unless your not (aka dungeons). Thats true anywhere, unless you specifically mean leveling, which maby i could see depending greatly on how they do it (and I promise you dont have this information).

There is plenty of information backing this up. Maybe you should look into recent information regarding the game.

"Content Finder" will be the gimp way of doing things, as in those people that cant get into endgame, its a horrible system, its anti-ls and will likely be used for "normal" mode dungeons, not hard modes, even in wow you cant do a dungeon finder for normal/heroic DS, its only for old dungeons that are out of date.

Cool. Has nothing to do with what we're discussing, but thanks for your opinion on content finder.

People obviously do want to play with others from other time zones, hense the fact that these threads even exist, and again, your rolling back to talking about JP's without saying it, its not just about JP's, its EU's and people from other places, my ls has atleast 15+ EU members in it without a good 25+ NA. On 11 my ls had NA/EU/JP divisions and events ran around the clock, people from all 3 divisions bled into the other time zones.

JP keep being the subject because they are the ones who seem to not have a problem with it and that's important to note. Why are some NA and EU players crying about it so much when in theory they will only be separated by server location, but not in group content if they choose? Maybe because it isn't a big deal to them. We're the ones with the issue and making it a bigger problem than it isn't.

Also, that's awesome that you had different divisions. You can still do that across servers.

Reguardless of all of this, just do not play on a world server if they make them, it has nothing to do with you, at all, this does not effect you in any way, idc if you think it will fail, idc if your as racist as you all appear to be, I am not, and many others are not, i dont speak anything but english, but I manage to be in JP Garuda/hamlet/17min AV/CC's on a daily basis, around the clock, thats all this is about, we do not want 2-3hr prime times then the server dies.

What is stopping you to do that? Again, that is what content finder is for. If they don't want to play with you because they don't speak english and such they wouldn't even invite you if you were on their server anyway.

[Starfall]

You seem to be under the impression that you'll be needing a group for most things, which I don't blame you for thinking being a FFXI vet, but you are more likely to do things solo aside from dungeons.... which is what content finder is for and it expands throughout all servers. Even PvP will expand throughout all servers.

I have a question that I have not seen answered. Will the instance server (dungeons/pvp/etc) be regional as well?

Since content finder and PVP will be cross servers, i assume it will be separate from regional world servers. If it is separate, where will it reside? If its in Japan, then won't it make the whole concept of regional servers irrelevant?

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

I have a question that I have not seen answered. Will the instance server (dungeons/pvp/etc) be regional as well?

Since content finder and PVP will be cross servers, i assume it will be separate from regional world servers. If it is separate, where will it reside? If its in Japan, then won't it make the whole concept of regional servers irrelevant?

I've seen this question from a couple of people and that certainly is something that needs to be answered. My best guess would be that everyone is pulled to the server of who organized the group.

[Jynx]

Chances are Content finder will be region locked as well but span that regions 2-3 servers for players. Considering the latency is so atrocious we can't ever play with it apparantly. If they were to design twitch mechanics into the game it would defeat the entire purpose of the regional servers.

[Jeronlmo]

You need to take your own advice and read back a page or so, content finder was brought up, so I responded. Just as you did actually to my post.

The information that was released said it would be more quest based, not exp grinding, it said nothing about it being mainly solo or party based. They also said leve's would not be going anywhere, which was party based before jobs came out, so you should prob assume they are going to make them less soloable.

NA people claiming they read the first/middle/last page of a 1k+ post thread by using google translate and saying JP's just dont give a damn is rediculous.

Again, there is a difference to a "Content Finder" party, and a LS party, content find is random gimps, thats the majority of people that use it, its for people who cant get into any real endgame shell, I know you wont like this fact, but its how the idea even came about, it forces a group of random gimps together and sees what happens, they are also releasing "Normal Mode" content specifically for this crap, "Hard Mode" will likely not be involved.

All you really have to do is look at wow, you know the game yoshida is 100% copying.
Dungeon Finder - Only connects to out-of-date dungeons and 0 hard mode anything.
Raid Finder - Actually came out with a 3rd version of DS specifically for it, The first boss in DS atm is named morchok, the raid finder version meant for 25 people I think it is? actually has less HP than the Normal Mode Morchok of the same raid which is meant for 10 people.

Content/dungeon/raid finder is for gimp content, always will be, your suggesting I want to deal with people ive never talked to and will never see again, it is 100% not the same thing.

[Alhanelem]

Content/dungeon/raid finder is for gimp content, always will be, your suggesting I want to deal with people ive never talked to and will never see again, it is 100% not the same thing.

This isn't WoW. the content finder has been advertised to be for all content, not just "easy" content. Yes, ogranized groups will stick to their organized groups. But that doesn't mean you'll never meet a competent person outside of that.

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Anyway, more on topic. What would be even better than regional or global servers is if there was just one game world. But that's a really difficult thing to achieve- you either need channels, or a huge game world, and it can potentially limit the complexity of certain systems, because there is a limit to how much bandwidth each client can use for a server cluster to support such a large number of players That's not to say it's never been done of course, but the design of a game has a huge impact on whether or not this is possible.

[Jeronlmo]

Wow is technically for all content, but it doesnt specify the difficulty of each content, there is a "raid finder" for DS, but only the raid finder version, not normal or hard, this game is going to have "normal" and "hard" modes.

Is the rest of your post just a joke/derail? Because your talking about something thats actually impossible and its not "on topic".

[Madruk]

Waaah I want to force everyone to make my preferred choice instead of letting them figure it out for themselves.

Don't need 30 pages to sum up one sentence.

[Davorok]

Are you all forgetting that as a Legacy Member you can have up to 8 characters on Every Server/World? You can still play with your "International Friends" on their servers at no extra cost.