Important Announcement from the Devs!!

[Fensfield]

This.

The people who want to be on a specific regional server aren't doing anything with you now anyways. You'll not even notice them missing.

Except.. you know, being there.

The beauty of this genre is the fact that everyone, everyone is a part of your experience.. even if the only role they play in your experience is to make your backdrop all the more alive. Given the majority will, likely, choose not to be on the global servers, I think that benefit will be impacted - unless, perhaps, there are proportionally less global ones I suppose.

Sure, having the choice to only play with people can understand you might outweigh that benefit.. but all the same, I think I'd notice they were missing, for my part and were I to go to a segregated server, especially if I opted to play during off-peak hours.

... Now, if they were to link day-night cycles to the server's language's native region's, that might result in the world getting quieter during its night. Which.. might actually be kind of cool. Of course as much as I favour a 23 hour day/night cycle (so the time in game is always different but the sun doesn't rocket through the sky like it does now), that's probably really, really unlikely.

[Wynn]

Except.. you know, being there.

The beauty of this genre is the fact that everyone, everyone is a part of your experience.. even if the only role they play in your experience is to make your backdrop all the more alive. Given the majority will, likely, choose not to be on the global servers, I think that benefit will be impacted - unless, perhaps, there are proportionally less global ones I suppose.

I guess they should only have one server. You know, so that way everyone is there and you aren't missing out on their presence.

[Alerith]

I guess they should only have one server. You know, so that way everyone is there and you aren't missing out on their presence.

Sarcasm aside, that would be pretty nice. Assuming the lag wouldn't be so thick you could taste it and the game would run just as smooth, I'd be all for this.

That being said, it's not gonna happen for many years to come, and probably not in this game.

[Fensfield]

I guess they should only have one server. You know, so that way everyone is there and you aren't missing out on their presence.

... Yes?

Ideally speaking, they should. Sharding isn't a feature; it's a consequence of the limitations of modern server technology. Being able to dedicate blade servers to individual star systems and subsequently have everyone on the same 'world' is one of the things makes EVE Online so special (and something CCP tout regularly and enthusiastically, and consider one of the game's a big selling points).

I'd consider a working, single-shard fantasy MMO on Final Fantasy XIV's intended scale an amazing, wonderful feat in and of itself and a draw in its own right - although for everyone's sanity it would require realistically sized cities and spaces between them, probably. Then again by the time server tech's on a level could make a standard-form fantasy MMORPG work with a shard-less setup, that probably won't be terribly difficult.

Sarcasm aside, that would be pretty nice. Assuming the lag wouldn't be so thick you could taste it and the game would run just as smooth, I'd be all for this.

That being said, it's not gonna happen for many years to come, and probably not in this game.

Exactly, thank you.

[Atomisk]

My main concern is Economy. If all of japan goes to japanese server, who will make all my endgame items? :P Will the game cater to people who work 3rd shift? Majorly the population differences during certain times of the day/night when i need someone to repair my gear? Finding parties at off hours? I play with a Portuguese ls and an English ls. I don't speak Portuguese one bit, but we could still manage to do darkhold together. Having a world where people from all over log on enhances the chance of finding people to do content with, whenever you log on. I also have a feeling if they offer segregated worlds, the global worlds will become empty. and some of the races that do play don't have a strong enough following for their own world to be sustainable successfully (i.e i don't see alot of french or german players.) You are going to spread your player base thin, and will become even harder to find people to do content with. Hence will i be forced to go to a regional server even though i don't want to, just to find a player base?

[Jynx]

Personally a bit sad about allowing people to segregate themselves to specific servers. Japanese population on Global servers will be sparse at best I bet.

[Biggs]

Personally a bit sad about allowing people to segregate themselves to specific servers. Japanese population on Global servers will be sparse at best I bet.

I think as long as they add the option to choose it could be ok. I mean, I would rather be on an international server knowing that everyone on my server from different countries WANTS to be there as opposed to being forced to. I would much rather let the people that wish to stay isolated in their current region do so while allowing the more social players to be social. AS long as the keep it 50/50 I would be happy. The good news about this is that it can only mean that at some point in time they will allow for a world transfer service, which I think is great.

[Atomisk]

I was being sarcastic about world segregation option Alerith. Sorry.

Personally a bit sad about allowing people to segregate themselves to specific servers. Japanese population on Global servers will be sparse at best I bet.

[Bayohne]

Another Yoshida post addressed a question about being unable to move to language-specific servers as they might be locked for existing players.

Does this mean that the current servers will become global servers? I’m assuming that the language servers will be considered new worlds, so players in the current server will have to wait a while to join the language servers. I believe that players will want to join the language servers with their friends as soon as they are implemented, so could you please keep that in mind.

Yes, we have already considered this scenario. We will not be treating the language servers as new worlds, so there is no need to worry.

[Fensfield]

Another Yoshida post addressed a question about being unable to move to language-specific servers as they might be locked for existing players.

Yes, we have already considered this scenario. We will not be treating the language servers as new worlds, so there is no need to worry.

.. Please clarify again? ^^;

What does this mean? They're going to make the current servers the language specific ones and players will be forced to either play on servers different from their own language or move to one of the others? Surely that's a bit..

I'm really having a hard time understanding what Naoki Yoshida is saying there. I there really no way to make it any clearer?