Australian Servers -_-

[Aegis]

Just to put in perspective.

Europe Population: 742.5m
Australia Population: 23.13m

About equally sized areas. Europe has 32x the population of Australia. Europe does not yet have its own data centre. You may be waiting a while.

[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

[Niqote]

Whats your latency? I get 85ms from Perth using WTFast

Thats incredible! ... I get 280+ with WTFast /Brisbane

Just to put in perspective.

Europe Population: 742.5m
Australia Population: 23.13m

About equally sized areas. Europe has 32x the population of Australia. Europe does not yet have its own data centre. You may be waiting a while.

I think the whole point was the shock of receiving emails about a AU server from SE and it being for some F2P game of theirs lol...

[Lithera]

There's also the fact Nosgoth is a Squeenix Europe developed game that is obviously targeted to a different audience. Does Nosgoth have a Japanese server block? A large part of why FFXIV doesn't have servers IN Australia is due to your proximity to Japan. Poor latency to the JP servers would be moreso on your ISP than Squeenix. The problem I hear most from Aussie players is dealing with playing on a server with mostly Japanese players. Therefore a server or two labeled as Oceanic would certainly help to organize the Oceanic community onto a World where they don't need to learn a second language.

[Kyandeisu]

From singapore here and Id switch to a AU server if they had the option becuz playing on the US servers is terribly laggy

[kyuven]

beginning to think their logic for not opening an australia/SEA server is "why don't they just use the JP servers?"

...or it could be something else. I dunno.

[kidvideo]

ROFL "Australian internet"...

[Aegis]

beginning to think their logic for not opening an australia/SEA server is "why don't they just use the JP servers?"

...or it could be something else. I dunno.

I think the distance from one end of Australia to Japan is many thousands of miles... though I'm not sure exactly how far.

Edit: Perth to Tokyo : 4929 miles

Second Edit: To be fair, Perth to Brisbane is 2244 miles, so chances are, even with an Australian Server, you're gonna be pretty far from the data centre (Though with few relays, which is probably a bigger impact than the sheer distance).