About server design

[Soukyuu]

since pulling resources from a server is no different from pulling resources off the disk, both are essentially the same process.

Except that your disk doesn't sit half a planet away, separated by shitty servers.

[Elexia]

Except that your disk doesn't sit half a planet away, separated by shitty servers.

Heh, this again? It's been proven with FFXI that distance doesn't matter. I was even able to play Rift from outside of the US just fine.

What matters is if your game and servers are optimized, XIV, which SE THEMSELVES admitted, is not.

[Soukyuu]

Heh, this again? It's been proven with FFXI that distance doesn't matter. I was even able to play Rift from outside of the US just fine.

even with a latency of over 800ms? I once played a game which had 1400ms latency and it was a lot worse than FFXIV, with client side UI. Distance may not matter, latency does.

And a latency of some ns (SSD) or ms (HDD) is still a lot less than the 400ms i have now.