Australian Servers -_-

[Rubieus]

Square Enix, the publishers of Nosgoth – the Free-to-Play MMOAG - has just announced that it has launched several additional servers in Sydney to support the game’s (Nosgoth) large community of Australian and New Zealand based players.

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When can we expect to see Australian servers for FFXIV?

[Zumi]

Australian has a fairly small population compared to NA so it doesn't make sense to have servers for just 1 country. Even Blizzard who has the biggest mmo at the moment has Australians play on the NA servers.

[Riepah]

We still don't even have *actual* EU servers. If you'd be happy with a server in Canada with an "Australia" tag slapped on it, on the other hand...

[Rubieus]

I understand that but a F2P game is getting servers before a p2p game.

[Brine_Gildchaff]

I understand that but a F2P game is getting servers before a p2p game.

F2P and P2P don't matter so much as "how many players?". If Nosgoth has a very significant number/percent of Australian players, it makes sense to give them their own server. Meaning no disrespect, but it doesn't make financial sense to put up an extra server in a totally different country, probably having to deal with all sorts of Customs & Excise red tape in the process, if the players there are few and far between; whereas going by that email there's a -lot- of Aussie players in Nosgoth.

[Rubieus]

F2P and P2P don't matter so much as "how many players?". If Nosgoth has a very significant number/percent of Australian players, it makes sense to give them their own server. Meaning no disrespect, but it doesn't make financial sense to put up an extra server in a totally different country, probably having to deal with all sorts of Customs & Excise red tape in the process, if the players there are few and far between; whereas going by that email there's a -lot- of Aussie players in Nosgoth.

But.. It's Free to play.. They make no money unless players buy cash shop items.. In which case.. >.> Add some Cash shop to FFXIV, nothing amazing mind you, just the little things like cosmetics.. New hair styles.. reaaally cool outfits that are not lore related. >.> Some players are spending money on a tunneler so they don't die on titan.. Shouldn't the money be going to SE for better server support?

[kyuven]

But.. It's Free to play.. They make no money unless players buy cash shop items.. In which case.. >.> Add some Cash shop to FFXIV, nothing amazing mind you, just the little things like cosmetics.. New hair styles.. reaaally cool outfits that are not lore related. >.> Some players are spending money on a tunneler so they don't die on titan.. Shouldn't the money be going to SE for better server support?

Believe it or not Cash Shop games can be more lucrative for a business than subscription based games unless the latter is past a certain threshold.
But that's another topic.
If you want aussie servers, get more aussies playing.

[Rubieus]

Believe it or not Cash Shop games can be more lucrative for a business than subscription based games unless the latter is past a certain threshold.
But that's another topic.
If you want aussie servers, get more aussies playing.

Well there are probbaly 3-4 gaming conventions that come around, PAX, EB Expo to name a few, but I bet it would increase players if SE made a FATE event here in Brisbane >.>

[wicked-one]

>>But.. It's Free to play.. They make no money unless players buy cash shop items..
You wouldn´t believe how much F2P Games earn by In-Game Buys... (thats why they usually refered as Pay2Win)

>>In which case.. >.> Add some Cash shop to FFXIV, nothing amazing mind you, just the little things like cosmetics.. New hair styles.. reaaally cool outfits that are not lore related.
Oh how dare you xD no please not... never!

>>Some players are spending money on a tunneler so they don't die on titan.
Weird people do weird things ^^

>>Shouldn't the money be going to SE for better server support?
Before Australia, i would bet the greater demanding player base resides in Europe... just sayin

[mbncd]

Yeah, I got so excited when I saw that email, only to see it was for the wrong game when I opened it up. My main char would still be where my friends are but I'd love to have an alt on a local server for once