So about our network issues here

[Valenth]

Its all about how much square is willing to pay people... I always assumed that the German location was picked because of the SE office being nearby and it being cheaper than say example Amsterdam where basically a very large network hub exists...

From what I know the servers are located in Frankfurt specifically, which is a known city for housing more MMO servers. SE's European HQ is located in London last time I checked. I suppose Frankfurt is a bit more nicely located in the middle of the entirety of Europe as well? Who knows, though through the years of playing MMO's I would always hear people complain about the German infrastructure not being exactly top-notch, so perhaps having them in Amsterdam would have been better (for my ping as well lol).

Edit: As I see you advocating the Amsterdam placement of the servers in other threads as well, I would like to remind you that things there aren't exactly so much better either. The amount of times Ziggo (main ISP in the Amsterdam region) has major outage By DDoS, courtesy of Anonymous last year, easily rivals the amount of times we've had problems with the FFXIV servers.