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.

[Alistaire]

Square Enix doesn't even know we exist

Do people not know of the time Yoshi P was there and said himself he was disappointed with the latency there? ...and as much as that doesn't magically make a centre there feasible, he's definitely aware you exist, and that the situation exists.

[Chiramu]

Do people not know of the time Yoshi P was there and said himself he was disappointed with the latency there? ...and as much as that doesn't magically make a centre there feasible, he's definitely aware you exist, and that the situation exists.

I spent years forced to play WoW with 300ms ping. The Tonberry lag isn't huge compared to that.

[JCharms]

I managed to make a char on Tonberry this morning, I will level her a little over the next few days and see how it is. It wont take long to see, just need to face a few enemies that lay down some floor spam and see if i can get out of it.
Since I started playing last year, it shows me literally meters away from it but it still registers the damage. I ended up changing to healer so I don't have to bother moving for anything and just eat the damage. :P
If it works out ok, I'll shift my mains over.

[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.