Quote Originally Posted by Jamison View Post
But that's exactly why I would prefer global servers. So I can play the game, not just in primetime, but any free time that I have (which is admittedly some very strange hours). I had a great PT at 6am this past weekend that was a split of NA/JP/EU. We had a heck of a time doing random flights and just hanging out. I will sorely miss that.

As others have said, even though they will offer a choice of which region server you want to be on, that will be most appropriate to (as an example) an English speaker who happens to be living in another country, or vice-versa; or someone who had a non-standard work schedule and regularly plays at a time that isn't their normal primetime.

What this will NOT do is provide for global servers that are active at all times of the day. Even though I really enjoy playing with JP/EU, being on one of their servers will still be to my detriment due to the lack of NA. I don't *gain* anything through that making that choice.

I realize why this is being done, but it still makes me sad that one of the things I (and many others) particularly enjoy about FFXI and FFXIV is going away.
Random fights you have more of a chance to do things with random Cultures, but when it comes to Primals/Strongholds/Dungeons ( end gameish content) More than likely you will be turned down if you don;t know their language.

Random fights are as they are "Random" thus everyone at a certain point should know what they are doing and shouldn't come a crossed any problems at all. With content that requires Strategy it's a different story, at that point people really need to be Communicative to get things done. If you can't rely the strat to the other Language thoroughly, You will have a rough time getting it done.

Dying is fun, dying too many times is not fun. I understand everyone has different work schedules and what not, thus Global servers are better suited to everyone's needs, however when you look at the broad scope of things and get real thick into the ice, Getting into end-game content with people not of said Language is very tricky and can slow other people down from getting top-gear and all that jazz.

As I said before Global and Regional servers have their advantages.

Global servers= Having time to play with others regardless of time you play ( but suffer Latency if your far way from the server)
Regional- No Language Barriers, No Latency, the only flaw people schedules may conflict with the Regional Prime time.

Some things in life we have to work around things to achieve a happy medium. If they could some how Combine Regional/Global Servers to make it still Global but sill choose a server closest to you and still play with everyone around the world. I would be for that.

But if I had to choose it would be Regional Servers.