Can we please get some more options in choosing server location?

[JohnMccain]

and after moving them, countless similar topic will be made, request to move em back

And how do you know that? People want something that is accessible. Having all the servers at only 2 specific locations just makes it that much harder for people to access the game.

[rina_inverse]

by compromising

like what I do when leaving Sargatanas. Ive been there since it still Lindblum back in 1.0. then merged with another server. ive made lots of friend there
i have to leave them because playing no longer bearable (they move/designated it as US server)

so try compromising

[Taliph]

by compromising

like what I do when leaving Sargatanas. Ive been there since it still Lindblum back in 1.0. then merged with another server. ive made lots of friend there
i have to leave them because playing no longer bearable (they move/designated it as US server)

so try compromising

Do you realize that there is no compromise for those of us west of the continental divide? From this side of the mountains, pings and lag spikes from the us servers are similar to those on the JP servers... Horrible.

Edit to add: also, in reference to your comment about giving them money... You know we all do that already, every month.

[JohnMccain]

by compromising

like what I do when leaving Sargatanas. Ive been there since it still Lindblum back in 1.0. then merged with another server. ive made lots of friend there
i have to leave them because playing no longer bearable (they move/designated it as US server)

so try compromising

How is it making it no longer bearable if you are confining the North America servers to be in various locations in North America. Your argument makes no sense. I am not suggesting moving servers between NA and JP data centers. That would be complicated and dumb. What I am suggesting is spreading the servers throughout North America(2 locations) to resolve the issue of players having to go through 3-4 ISPs before reaching the server.

[AskaRay]

The intention of this post is not for more servers, but for a migration.

Moving servers still requires more resources, thus, money.

If you're on the west coast try the JP servers? Who knows.

[Taliph]

Moving servers still requires more resources, thus, money.

If you're on the west coast try the JP servers? Who knows.

Maths:
7.99-14.99 per month x 500,000 active accounts = plenty of money to improve the service that we pay for

[SecretCrowds]

Maths:
7.99-14.99 per month x 500,000 active accounts = plenty of money to improve the service that we pay for

You give the input but you never mention any output. If you can give a breakdown on how much SE has to pay to others (not just their own staff), perhaps you can give a better number on how much they have left to migrate servers. How much is this "plenty" you mention after all the cost they have to pay.

[rina_inverse]

even if you said splitting, it still a sizeable sum of money to invest
building
resources
staff
etc

[JohnMccain]

You give the input but you never mention any output. If you can give a breakdown on how much SE has to pay to others (not just their own staff), perhaps you can give a better number on how much they have left to migrate servers. How much is this "plenty" you mention after all the cost they have to pay.

You are also forgetting the cash shop that was according to Yoshi P "the profits used as something to give back to the community." The fact that SE has been double dipping these past few months leads anyone to see that they have plenty of money to upgrade their servers. You don't need to be a financial analyst to see it.

[worldofneil]

Is there anyway SE to dive in deeper and give us even more server locations? For starters, data centers in: Oceania, Japan, Pacific Coast, East Cost, and Europe.

Ignoring the considerable ongoing cost of each data centre, how would the players get to these data servers?

It's one thing for them to move the Europe servers actually to Europe, but if they start moving NA designated servers around they risk causing problems for the many players on them (myself included) who don't have a problem (heck I'm in the UK, Europe and I connect to Sargatanas in Canada, but if they move it even somewhere in the US who knows what'll happen to it?)

Likewise although they can create new servers and offer people free/paid world moves etc because people would be reluctant to leave friends and a lot of things like houses can't be moved, if the servers don't populate fully you'd end up with a lost of ghost town servers. Sure they could look into house moving etc too, but what I'm trying to say is adding new locations would just cause a lot of new problems.