Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Jeronlmo]

Japan is where they would likely be located, as they were for ff11, and ff14, its about new players, that is it, if a new player sees the options:
NA
NA
JP
JP
EU
EU
If they are NA, they will go to NA, JP will go to JP, EU will go to EU, it will happen.

If a ls that exist now goes to a JP server thats NA/EU (like mine), if will die over time, it just will, there will be little to no new NA/EU people, the same goes vise versa for any of the 3. The current population is to small to expect it to last any decent amount of time unless you never lose a single member for any reason, ever.

All people have been asking for, stated throughout this thread many times, is for World servers, located in Japan, we dont care where its at, at all, if its listed as "Global" or something, people will know they can expect people from all 3 time zones.

If you do not lable it global, people will not mix, people will not expect people of their own language to be there at all. A JP server will be 95%+ JP, NA and EU will be the same situation, very small prime times will happen.
Server list:
NA
NA
EU
EU
JP
JP
Global
Global

This is literally what this entire thread is about, right up there.

Got tired of retyping this after the 4th time or something, sorry~

Edit: Whether they call it "Region Locked" or not, it has the exact same effect, the only extra freedom it provides is letting you pick your prime time server based on your schedual.

[Lirion]

Got tired of retyping this after the 4th time or something, sorry~

Just because they are not named global doesn't mean they are not global. Anyone from all over the world can join any server, all servers now except Ragnarok(?) are japanese which already makes them regional. You people just seem to want S-E to hide where the servers are located and name them global so that players dont join server based on their region and that's just deceiving.

[Ingolf]

Just because they are not named global doesn't mean they are not global. Anyone from all over the world can join any server, all servers now except Ragnarok(?) are japanese which already makes them regional. You people just seem to want S-E to hide where the servers are located and name them global so that players dont join server based on their region and that's just deceiving.

But I have different schedules, I want to join a server that will have population throughout the day.

Have you ever played on the XIV EU server? It's dead at night.

Also I like to play with people throughout the world, and would enjoy playing with like minded people.