Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Antipika]

Did i said Language is not an issue on the global servers? Altho the main language every1 else speaks is mostly English (some do not speak it too well but still). In EU servers it will be a much more bigger mix of languages, and you understand french, but i dont. You're being selfish when your comparing World-wide servers to EU only servers, the community that speaks english well enough to do stuff will be less than it is right now, and you only want ur NA servers because everyone will speak english and tehre wont be any JP. As i said that's being selfish because you want ur language issues to be solved but they will be bigger on another regional servers such as EU's.

It's not about being selfish, it's about being rational. What you have a hard time to understand are the two following statement:

- If I can speak English, I have more chance to find players who speaks English on an EU server than on a Global Server.

- If I cannot speak English or Japanese, I have more chance to find people speaking my language on an EU server than a Global Server.

It's all about the population breakdown. On a Global Server, half of players doesn't even speak EN. It's easy, if that server have 10 000 players, you already exclude 5 000 of them...

That would not happen on an EU server. The proportion (again that's the -only- thing that matters) of players speaking EN will always be higher than on a global server. Bonus, for minorities (like Russian, Italian etc.), they have actually a chance to build a small community on an EU server, while if all Italian or Russian are located on different Global Servers, there won't be enough of them per server (again, % of players) in order to make a Linkshell.