About Global Servers / グローバルサーバーについて

[Sav]

I don't care either way, and I lived in Japan for a couple years. I don't play FFs to meet Japanese people, personally. If they want to log onto a game to relax only to have to jump through language hoops to accomplish things...well, I could see that being a cause of stress rather than relaxation. To each their own, nonetheless.

[Issac]

At the risk of sounding like a weaboo,

When I first played XI, I found it to be an admirable quality that the servers were global. I loved experiencing personalities from all cultures, but especially Japanese. I was already an anime fan back then, and mingling with the Japanese community fueled my interest in the language. I've only started to seriously study it this past year, but life is full of its distractions.

If region-specific servers are opened, I'll lose many friends. I won't have nearly as many opportunities to practice speaking Japanese. If I will myself to mask my IP through a Japanese proxy I will alienate my English friends, not to mention the added cost of paying for said proxy.

Needless to say, I hate this idea. It might be selfish, but who's to say they aren't either?

[weeble]

why divide us from language and lands when the biggest thing that seperates us as players is hardcore or casual, divide servers to that extent, it's the real language we talk.

but really i don't think servers should be divided ...unless seriously casual or hardcore ...ty.

[Lavani]

Unless they have servers based on different parts of the world to allow for lower pings it dosn't matter how they organize the new servers. I like having the global servers personally but I find using the auto translate is annoying and limits what you can really say.

[Colino]

I mean, wouldn't you hate people that nuked you and instead of being punished became the world's leading super-power?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

Don't even start it bro. The Japanese were far from angels during WW2.

On topic: I completely agree with OP. Force them to play with us. As xenophobic as they are, it's fun to have them around and if the auto-translator was just a bit more up-to date it would be even easier to communicate.

[Mikita]

I'd be curious to know what the thoughts are on the Japanese forums about this issue. Are they they really all saying they will just leave?

There is a huge on-going thread about this on the Japanese forums with people on both sides of the fence. In general, though, I think there are more people on the side of wanting global servers.

[Mikita]

And to everyone saying it will be a choice: you're wrong. You're just wrong. The vast majority of Japanese players will play on Japanese-only servers if given the choice, which will remove the choice for us to play on a truly global server.

Despite what I just wrote in my previous post about a lot of Japanese players being in favor of global servers in their thread on the topic...

I think you're right about this.

When new players are coming into the game, if they are presented with a choice of language-specific servers, the majority will probably choose Japanese-only servers because that is where they will feel most comfortable.

The existing global servers may just see their player populations dwindle as people switch servers or quit, with very few new players coming in.

[Atomisk]

I care, I want lower ping.

segregated servers don't mean the server will be hosted in your country. You are still going to have the same ping.

[Atomisk]

sorry if you read this before but copy and pasting since someone made a seperate thread for it.

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? And i will really miss the multi-cultural experience that i have come to expect and love from ff mmo's. If the jap don't want to play with me fine. but at least allow them to fill my ah with goods.

[Alhanelem]

Japan tends to be a very polite and respectful society, even in an online setting, and that doesn't always mesh well with American behavior.

While this is completely true, it's only within their own people it seems like sometimes. If they extended this polite and respectfulness to the rest of the world, the rest of the world would be more than happy to give it back.