Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Jeronlmo]

Hes broken many promises, but for regional servers, we didnt buy this game to play on regional servers, its a world server brand, has been for 12yrs+ now, hes basically taken our money all this time to change the core reason so many people play FF games to start with, it should have been said before they started charging though I can easily see why they waited, if they did say it then, the game would have died, now people have the attitude "maby 2.0 will be worth it".

They said within days of 2.0 being released that items/quest/gil/everything would be carried over because of large concern, and none would lose anything, hes considering the fact that everything being lowered to 1/10 (10%) is keeping it the same(but he did lie about it), maby over a long period of time the player based economy will work itself out, generally the cheaper the item the faster it will. Fact is, he changed it.

[Wynn]

Hes broken many promises, but for regional servers, we didnt buy this game to play on regional servers, its a world server brand, has been for 12yrs+ now, hes basically taken our money all this time to change the core reason so many people play FF games to start with, it should have been said before they started charging though I can easily see why they waited, if they did say it then, the game would have died, now people have the attitude "maby 2.0 will be worth it".

They said within days of 2.0 being released that items/quest/gil/everything would be carried over because of large concern, and none would lose anything, hes considering the fact that everything being lowered to 1/10 (10%) is keeping it the same(but he did lie about it), maby over a long period of time the player based economy will work itself out, generally the cheaper the item the faster it will. Fact is, he changed it.

What promises? Can you specify?

I don't know about anyone else, but the only reason I bought this game is because I wanted to play another Final Fantasy MMO. No other reason.

Plus, we knew about the regional servers before we started paying. Maybe you didn't know because you missed it or whatever, but that's not his fault.

As far as the gil issue goes. Everything is still getting transferred over. It is just being redenominated.

I realize some people are having a hard time grasping the concept so I understand why you might think you are losing out. The fact is you aren't.

That's a different thread from this one so I won't go into it further. There are several threads you can read through if you are really interested in understanding what is actually going to happen. Or you could ignore those and continue listening to knee-jerk reactions of players that don't understand basic math.

[Jeronlmo]

I fully understand that if everything is taken to 10% of the original value, its basically the same thing, but the player market does not follow those rules, given over time it will, but not right away, reguardless, its changed.

2yrs ago, there was not a single person that could have known about regional servers, 2.0 wasnt even an idea until After launch. I cannot help you apparently didnt start playing until later.

Regional servers should have been release far sooner, and the gil information should have been given much closer to shutdown, its completely screwed the economy on every server, plus with atomos going on and the 1mil+/hr people can make off it it, its even worse.

[Wynn]

I fully understand that if everything is taken to 10% of the original value, its basically the same thing, but the player market does not follow those rules, given over time it will, but not right away, reguardless, its changed.

2yrs ago, there was not a single person that could have known about regional servers, 2.0 wasnt even an idea until After launch. I cannot help you apparently didnt start playing until later.

Regional servers should have been release far sooner, and the gil information should have been given much closer to shutdown, its completely screwed the economy on every server, plus with atamos going on and the 1mil+/hr people can make off it it, its even worse.

Two years ago we weren't paying a monthly subscription. The announcement about regional servers came after Yoshi came on board and told us about their plans for 2.0 and that was definitely before we started paying the monthly sub.

In any case, SE didn't sell us global servers. They sold us an MMO.

Nobody at SE promised you we wouldn't have regional server. No promise was broken.

I appreciate you are unhappy with the servers issue and I won't say you don't have a right to that opinion. But you are certainly wrong if you continue to propagate the idea Yoshi lied to us when he clearly did no such thing.

[Soukyuu]

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.

I'm not. The problem is, I barely have time to work on my main character, how am I supposed to level another... let's say, two? Sure I can just log in and chat, but I can do that via a messenger too.

Being able to move between regions with one character at will would make it much easier.

[Shan]

I am happy with this movement,
Don't get me wrong, I like the kindness of JP player,

but I play this game for fun, communicate with others
not just meeting JP player,or study some simple JP greeting words.

The JP player just can't speak English well, & i just can't understand what they are talking about.

A JP primal/NM party just won't let me join, because they will discuss tactics in full Japanese.
& they don't want to waste time on the translation.

And it's hard to find a English speaking LS.

If you like to meeting new JP friend, you are still able to choose a server in their location.

[Momeki]

it's not just jp players being seperated though it seems. na and eu are being seperated as well.:

I am happy with this movement,
Don't get me wrong, I like the kindness of JP player,

but I play this game for fun, communicate with others
not just meeting JP player,or study some simple JP greeting words.

The JP player just can't speak English well, & i just can't understand what they are talking about.

A JP primal/NM party just won't let me join, because they will discuss tactics in full Japanese.
& they don't want to waste time on the translation.

And it's hard to find a English speaking LS.

If you like to meeting new JP friend, you are still able to choose a server in their location.

[ZakarnRosewood]

I read this as people saying they arent able to make new friends. ever have to move to another school, city, or country? if you are really that close of friends and want to stay together then i'm sure you are intelligent enough to talk it out and decide on a server to move your linkshell to. i do sympathize with the idea of a global server but i really dont think they are taking that away from anyone. no one is restricted to a local(ish) server. i for one would much prefer a local region server to play on and not for lag reasons or population reasons, i'm one of those guys who logs on later at night cause i have kids and cant get on during "peak times", so if thats the case i now have an option to find a reigon where my play time is a peak time if i so choose.

I really hope that SE is smart enough not to scrap the regional server idea so long as they dont charge for server transfers.

[Alhanelem]

it's not just jp players being seperated though it seems. na and eu are being seperated as well.:

Seems? We knew there were going to be EU-located servers same time we knew about NA ones.

Since many EU speak english, they can easily join an NA server if they want and vice versa. In fact, those that do will contribute to softening the difference between peak times.

[moriandrio]

Seems? We knew there were going to be EU-located servers same time we knew about NA ones.

Since many EU speak english, they can easily join an NA server if they want and vice versa. In fact, those that do will contribute to softening the difference between peak times.

Why should i join a Server that is connected to an NA Datacenter? It might be better then a JP Datacenter but i will still have a higher delay. I really liked international Server since they released FFXI but i prefer a Server where I dont have an disadvantage.