Vote for a EU server in EU

[Edli]

I'm sorry, could you please quote where I said that?

On the part I quoted. If you didn't imply that then I'm sorry. Is just that I've heard that logic thrown quite a bit every time this topic comes up.

Is true that different players may be experiencing lag for different reasons. Faulty internet connection on their end, underpowered hardware but in either scenario the fact that the servers are on the other part of the ocean doesn't help. At least SE should alleviate the problem as much as they can on their part.

[Talec]

Why not ask for something that is meh, bearable to be great and almost perfect?

And costs SE tenthousends every month? ingame-shop incomming, the investment has to come back after all.

[Etupa]

ingame-shop incomming

Already the case with "Recruit A Friend"... you can see players offering other players a 3 months sub or even re-buying the game with 3 months in order to get new mount ^^' ... But that's OOT.

[Edli]

And costs SE tenthousends every month? ingame-shop incomming, the investment has to come back after all.

Yeah, if only they had some constant stream of revenue. Maybe in a form of subscription. I wonder how other MMO companies do it, I guess they just like losing money for no reason.

Sorry for trying to hold SE at a higher standard than most companies. If it were Nexon I would understand. They don't really give a crap about quality. If it were a f2p game I would still understand but in this case I find it a bit hard to justify.

People may post here all day trying to devalue the importance of having servers closer to where you play, or at least not an ocean away but everyone that has played MP games for a long time knows that it matters.

[Talec]

Yeah, if only they had some constant stream of revenue. Maybe in a form of subscription. I wonder how other MMO companies do it, I guess they just like losing money for no reason.

How many subscription bases MMORPGs do you know that are healthy and well?

I know one: WoW, with... 7 millions? active subscribers.
FFXIV has...unknown active subscribers. but given the media around it, it's more a niché-game at the end of the MMORPG-market.

EU-Servers can be standart, but only if there are enough subscription to authorize such huge effort. All you do is demand, but you don't have a slightest idea how cost/income of SE looks like for FFXIV.

PS: Before someone tries to smartass me: SE announced in April that they had 2 million users. Too bad that this means 2 million registered users, not active subscription! I doubt even half of those users have an active subscription. Most of them will be one-month'ers long gone, making FFXIV a game with probably less than a million active gamers. I just don't think the EU has somany players that they can demand an serverstructure on their own.

[Assirra]

Do you struggle with content at all? Like, really struggle? Do you get noticeable lag? I have better ping in the UK than most of my American friends close to the server. I ask this of most people who ask for an EU server because the majority ask for the sake of it, not because we really need it.

If you get hit by titan's big attack (forgot the name) that lands in the middle of the platform, while you on your screen are nearly jumping off. Is that noticeable enough? How about trying to heal straight after running? suddenly your heal stops midway cause the game think you are still running.

So yea, its noticeable and quite frankly really annoying since i need to force myself sometimes to do a half second of nothing so the game can catch up.

[Laifon]

1 year has passed now, I doubt they will migrate the servers to EU @_@

[Sayori]

I'm from europe and i've never really experienced latency issues

[ruskie]

Servers are ok where they are. What I'd like to see is them providing regional instance servers. So that once you load up into an instance you can be closer to where you are playing(from what I understand the instances are separate servers and they spool up as needed). So just add those somewhere in europe so atleast in instances we can get improvements.

[KumaSempai]

We need servers in EU !