Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[casevi]

In today's news, several million brain cells are dead and many more are missing as the Final Fantasy XIV forums encounters the fiercest shitstorm since Grassgate '12.

lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Alhanelem]

In today's news, several million brain cells are dead and many more are missing as the Final Fantasy XIV forums encounters the fiercest shitstorm since Grassgate '12.

I chuckled. We needed this

Aren't they going to have the option to do instanced parties with players in all serers anyway? As in you can still play with people from other regions, and even other servers? I recall reading that in the original developer notes. Any word on that?

I'm pretty sure Yoshida mentioned that the content finder would be cross-server.

[Jynx]

I'm pretty sure Yoshida mentioned that the content finder would be cross-server.

It would be hillarious if they did make it totally cross server and just make the regional servers pointless. If anything they will allow you to cross server to servers on the same data center.

[Alhanelem]

It would be hillarious if they did make it totally cross server and just make the regional servers pointless. If anything they will allow you to cross server to servers on the same data center.

I'm not really seeing how that would make anything pointless.

For one, content finder content is all instanced stuff- not anything in the open world, so NMs and such can only be done within your own world. There wouldn't be any issue with doing it between servers in different data centers. Since each player is only directly connected to their own server, their response times are not directly affected by the connection between the two world servers. There would be some delay in seeing the actions of players on the other server, but it wouldn't be anything worse than what we have now.

[Jynx]

I'm not really seeing how that would make anything pointless.

We have no idea how the cross server stuff will work, wether it will run on a single server with someones data connected to another server you could end up with the same issues we would face on a global server...therefore pointless.

Obviously just IMHO.

[Alhanelem]

We have no idea how the cross server stuff will work, wether it will run on a single server with someones data connected to another server you could end up with the same issues we would face on a global server...therefore pointless.

except I just explained how you don't face the same issues you would face on a global server and how it is therefore not pointless. You can also choose to filter by language, so if you choose not to play with japanese most of the time you're going to be finding people on an NA or an EU server. Obviously though, the more people you choose to include in the search, the faster you will find groups for content.

If a group was playing cross server, each player is only connected to their own server and the two servers relay information between eachother. Thus, everyone still has a low ping to their own server and low response times and thus not making a reigonal server "pointless" (which it wouldn't be even if this wasn't the case). The only response delay would be in the time it takes for the actions of players on the other server to be shown on the clients on the first server, but this has limited impact on those player's ability to perform.

With the content finder, you'd be able to enjoy the benefits of being on a server with other players with the same language and similar playtimes to you, while still having the chance to enjoy content with players from other regions if and when you should desire to.

[moriandrio]

We have no idea how the cross server stuff will work, wether it will run on a single server with someones data connected to another server you could end up with the same issues we would face on a global server...therefore pointless.

Obviously just IMHO.

They mentioned that they want to connect a datacenter from each region to a cluster for the instanced Stuff. Since Yoshi is a big wow fan he might planning to use the Realmpool System.

[Jaimie]

AU Primetime=JP Primetime

I have to use Google Translate during this time as there is next to no in-game translation being offered.

I'm sorry to acknowledge this but playing with US players is still as bad as it ever was with the original server idea, it will still mean that as I am ready to start removing some party-required quests from my Journal, people start feeling tired and sleepy and last one or two rounds (I still have United We Stand pending <.<) then I have no choice but to log on at my (now) usual playtime of AU primetime (7pm-12pm) and Google Translate gets fired up again, never ever ever ever get a response anymore from JP players.................

So it seems to me SE's answer for me is to only play between 2am-6am or join a NA server with mostly US players and get much more latency than already getting.................

Any other ways of alienating non-JP/US players?

I bet there are other AU players with the same issues as you. Unfortunatly, they are all on different servers.

Hey wait a minute. What if there was a AU server ? That might help players such as yourself.

P.S. AS for the JUMP command if you dont like it dont use it.

[Jaimie]

Translation in a nutshell:
New servers will be set aside for new players in 2.0. Existing players will not be able to transfer into these new worlds for the time being.

On the topic of world transfers on existing servers, they will need to take into account how many non-active players will be returning by the time of the new service launch, so they will also be considering the situation in the beta tests before deciding.

And the improved ease of world transfer mentioned by Yoshi-P during the anniversary just means there will be such a system providing world transfer service set up for 2.0.

I for one, will pay for a transfer to a NA server.

Let me tell you how today's first xp party went.
log in to uldah
see shout about spiritbond party but half the message is in foreign language
do a /sh <experience point> <spiritbond> <party> <can I have it> 46 <conjurer>
get an invite from the foriegner who did earlier shout
join party
do /p <hello>
see a lot of foriegn chat and a few <hello>s
see more foriegn chat
get ported to dragonhead
do /p <thank you>
see a few <thank you>s and more foreign chat
we blitz thru towards 3rd gate
party gets split up
2 ppl die
i'm only healer in pt apparently, so it's kinda hard to pull out my magic dictionary and chat
we run back to 2 dead ppl
but aggro a tonne of shit on way
i die and all the others who can rez die
all the while i keep seeing foriegn chat

in short the current system sucks this is not an ideal world where everyone treats everyone else with respect I want a NA server, so I don't have to deal with parties like this again.


P.S. did I mention that I had recently spent over 12k on repairs and was down to 3k gil in pocket, dieing within 10 minutes of entering natalan is not my idea of fun

And all you fanbois who think SE is GOD and can do no wrong <STFU>

Muhahahaha notice how I used the auto translate dictionary for <STFU>

[whoopeeragon]

I bet there are other AU players with the same issues as you. Unfortunatly, they are all on different servers.

Hey wait a minute. What if there was a AU server ? That might help players such as yourself.

P.S. AS for the JUMP command if you dont like it dont use it.

However, would SE really warrant a server solely for AU and NZ players? Myself being one, I very much doubt we will have the numbers to justify a server dedicated to the Oceanic region. Remember that the population of Australia, New Zealand, and other Oceanic countries is substantially less than NA, EU or JP, and those numbers will reflect respondingly in subscription numbers.