Australia deserves better latency

[harrisben]

Isn't it time for an official Australian server that is actually in Australia? My dream is that they'll announce it at the Fanfest. Other companies can do it, surely SQENIX can do it too?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Which datacenter will it go in for duty finder though? If its just 1 server, unconnected to a datacenter then the population wont be very high, and i don't see very many transferring servers to it if they are already established cuz housing/FC's/friends.

[Chiramu]

"Deserves" LUL.

We don't deserve anything in this game, stop making us sound like special snowflakes mate. It took Blizzard how many years to make Oceanic servers? Square Enix doesn't even know we exist, we are a part of the EU according to Square.

[harrisben]

Just like with Blizzard I'd still want any Australian servers to be part of the US/JAP group, and it doesn't have to be just the one server.

Sorry for using the word deserve, I was being nice. Have we really been crapped on for so long that that amount of self-loathing is justified? The way WoW works is different to the way FFXIV works so even when the servers were physically in the US the latency wasn't terrible (it's waaaay better now they're physically in Australia though). Lower latency would change the game for me, or at least give me less excuses for dying... we've all blamed latency, even when it wasn't latency (or maybe it's just me).

You're right about the silly grouping with Europe that they do to us though. They missed the memo that the NTSC/PAL days are over.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

If they grouped you with the JP or Na servers for DF, you'd still have lag. If they gave you your own instance server, anyone from NA/JP would have lag. And it probably would be just one server, since I don't think there's enough players in AU to justify more than one.

[harrisben]

I'm trying to focus on reasons why we should have Australian servers rather than why we shouldn't. Is there an Australian player who's happy with the latency?

[Shippuu]

Because money.

The truth is, the AUS population isn't going to be large enough to justify the expense. Setting up servers is incredibly expensive, and doing so in AUS is probably even more so due to it's location and the general price of pretty much everything there.

It's simply not a big enough market, so no, you don't deserve anything. If they do any other new servers/data centers it's more likely to be a West Coast US one.

And let's not even talk about how a lot of the latency problems probably stem more from the poor infrastructure in Australia than anything else.

[JCharms]

I'm trying to focus on reasons why we should have Australian servers rather than why we shouldn't. Is there an Australian player who's happy with the latency?

I'm not happy with it, nor am I in other games I play, It stops me from playing the harder content, but I just resign myself to accepting that is the way it is.
While I would love an AU/NZ server, I don't think it would work this late in the games life, how many that have made friends elsewhere would be willing to dump that to move back to an local server? I remember Pirates of the Burning Sea tried and Star Wars the Old Republic as well, and both ended in failures from just not enough people.
It says you're on Tonberry, how is the latency there? I heard it was the best you can get from Australia, but still bad?

[Shougun]

Wonder how well they could make latency standardized in certain party compositions lol. Could make the "laggers raiding party" hehe, SE could find the average latency to a threshold and set that as the response time/delay to many things - so it would be less of an issue without actually moving servers. Concerned there would be a way to abuse it though, some cheats are made around similar (less team oriented) ideas.

Wc3 had a mod you could utilize as host to find a standard delay make it appear consistent for everyone (so long as the difference wasn't that big), was really helpful on high response maps with custom hosts.

[Kaedan]

The way FF14's game mechanics work, 300-400 or less latency is irrelevant. And if you have more than 300, that's an issue you have to take up with your ISP, not SE.