Vote for a EU server in EU

[Edli]

The game is doing better and they are making more money than they expected, but it's clear to see they aren't doing a lot of reinvesting that money into the game, it seems they are still working with the budget they set up from their lower projections. This can be seen easily by looking at content being put in late, broken, and not even close to finished.

I don't know about that. This game compared to other MMOs has seen some pretty big content thrown at it on a short amount of time. Granted, not every thing in a patch is top notch but is still much better than what I was used to before. Here you have WoW which makes millions every year and they went 1 year with no new content at all.

[Vileren]

@Mcshiggs
On the long-term i think the quality of the service (incl servers close to your clients) is important to keep your clients subscribed, especially in a competititive environment like MMO. Just my 2 cents anyway, i'm no expert.

[Mcshiggs]

I don't know about that. This game compared to other MMOs has seen some pretty big content thrown at it on a short amount of time. Granted, not every thing in a patch is top notch but is still much better than what I was used to before. Here you have WoW which makes millions every year and they went 1 year with no new content at all.

Within the first year after launch, WoW introduced 2 dungeons, Maraudon and Dire Maul, 2 Raids, Blackwing Lair and Zul'Gurub, 10 world bosses, 2 battlegrounds, keep in mind it released with like 15 dungeons and Molten Core as a raid, and Onyxia you can count as a raid, or something comparable to a Primal. The raids in WoW were a lot bigger than the raids in XIV, Molten Core alone had 10 boss fights, coil released with 3.

@Mcshiggs
On the long-term i think the quality of the service (incl servers close to your clients) is important to keep your clients subscribed, especially in a competititive environment like MMO. Just my 2 cents anyway, i'm no expert.

Hasn't XI been up for over a decade with servers only based in Japan? And yes people complained about it constantly, with things like Japanese players having a better chance to claim NMs based on ping.

[Etupa]

Are u saying that SE plans to move the chaos data center to EU eventually or it is already in EU?

Actually Chaos data center is recommended for European players, but physically it's in Montreal with NA servers.

If they could move this cluster to EU it will be great for all EU players.

[silentwindfr]

exept it's recommanded, what will you do with the american playing on this cluster? kick them out?

[Millerna]

They directly don't say it is allowed, just that you can use at your own risk.

Using 3rd party is always a risk. Just see the app that have added its well known 'radar'...

The very first line in the post you link to says a tunnelling software doesn't directly control anything in the FFXIV client, and is therefor not breaking any rules. In other words, it's perfectly fine to use. Now, if that tunnelling service all of a sudden decided to add a feature that displays information in your FFXIV client (like the radar app does), then it will be breaking rules, and then you can get banned for using it.

That said, Square Enix does state in the EULA that they can ban whoever they want for whatever reason, so always use common sense

[faris]

I agree with this, if only because we were promised it at the end of 1.0 when Yoshida stated that he thought it was unfair American players couldn't manage Ifrit HM because everything was hosted in Japan. Personally, my ping is fine and I stand half a chance at dodging things. But! I know a lot of EU players which are (unfairly) known as bads because the latency for them is unbearable.

[Millerna]

Not really. I don't want sound harsh, but they have the EU tag, so they knew fully well where they were going. If we can't have proper servers just because of non EU people playing on EU servers, I don't know what to say... It doesn't make sense that the people that are intended to play in some specific servers have to suffer because of people that weren't the main target of said servers.

They never said the EU tagged servers would ever be physically moved to the EU though, so a lot of people who are not EU, but play during EU primetime have selected the EU servers. There are also a lot of players who prefer to play with people from all over the world, and there was already quite the discussion going on when they decided to split JP servers from the NA/EU ones.

The better option would be new servers and a limited free transfer for those who want to transfer, rather than force everyone to a different datacenter.

[Riepah]

exept it's recommanded, what will you do with the american playing on this cluster? kick them out?

The same thing that's done with EU players on NA servers. Nothing, they keep playing and they might suffer from latency. EU players who started on NA servers knew what they were getting themselves into, it's no different the other way around.

[silentwindfr]

exept the game was like this from the start, and it was said here that some american player have worse connection than european... seriously it's only a rants for make it special when after all the population of the europe are not enough for worth the budget needed for a datacenter, worst at some hours the server will be completly empty. finally, if i had wanted another game where people of the world play only with the one close to them... i will not play FF14. they simply want to strip more FF14 of it international way for? a potential better latency of 20-60ms...

seriously, what do you prefer, they add another datacenter, with the risk to increase the monthly fee or they simply improve more what we have and give us more content. personally i will go with more content!