We interrupt your current server woes to talk about casting

[Rydin]

Its been said a million times, so this is 1 million +1:

FFXIV suffers deeply from lack of localization. Multi-Regional clients are talking back and forth with servers which reside in one Region.

So lag has always been evident and the larger portion of the lag is due this geographical distance.

Some will compare FFXI to FFXIV even though the differences in both game engines seem vast (ffxiv being more resource intensive and poorly designed).

But here's the rub: if you compare the biggest difference between ffxi and ffxiv (intention) you can see that ffxiv strives to achieve a higher lvl of action based battle than ffxi.

So, here are the inportant questions:

Is 2.0 combating and overcoming the lack of NA and EU localization?

If we're meant to play a precision oriented MMO then what will be the performance comparison between NA, EU, and Asia?

Will compensating for lack of precision mean less quality of an experience in comparison to if everything had been locally served?

Of course the major caveat to local servers is:
- the loss of multi regional gameplay

(makes me wonder why TERA localized NA and EU servers/clients for it's highly action oriented MMO requirements)

So i understand that SE is attempting to achieve balance. I am by no means a network guru, i am merely drawing a conclusion of what many have voiced as a concern in the past.

Anyone else have any insight about this?

that is THE BIGGEST question I've had since launch...
Is your gameplay experience (and by that I mean lag) vastly different depending on what part of the world you're in?

I really just want to pack up all of my LS and fly to Japan to do a couple Ifrit/moogle runs and see if we notice a huge difference
I LOVE playing with people from all over the world.. Japanese, EU, even Australian players (Just messin with ya Sophia)
I really do... but the gameplay has to take priority
It just has to...
If the game is drastically different due to lag from being in a different part of the world... then its not going to encourage global unity... It's going to further separate and in many cases alienate the different groups

tl;dr Priority 1: as little lag as possible for everyone. Priority 2: A multilingual, multicultural, global experience

[Krausus]

that is THE BIGGEST question I've had since launch...
Is your gameplay experience (and by that I mean lag) vastly different depending on what part of the world you're in?

I really just want to pack up all of my LS and fly to Japan to do a couple Ifrit/moogle runs and see if we notice a huge difference
I LOVE playing with people from all over the world.. Japanese, EU, even Australian players (Just messin with ya Sophia)
I really do... but the gameplay has to take priority
It just has to...
If the game is drastically different due to lag from being in a different part of the world... then its not going to encourage global unity... It's going to further separate and in many cases alienate the different groups

tl;dr Priority 1: as little lag as possible for everyone. Priority 2: A multilingual, multicultural, global experience

I dunno man, on one hand I agree with you but the other says I can adjust and am willing to do it just to play with all my EU/JP friends.

I would personally like the delay issues resolved but am not willing to take up regional servers to do it. Here is to hoping 2.0 drastically decreases it.

[Rydin]

I dunno man, on one hand I agree with you but the other says I can adjust and am willing to do it just to play with all my EU/JP friends.

I would personally like the delay issues resolved but am not willing to take up regional servers to do it. Here is to hoping 2.0 drastically decreases it.

Yea... I know.. and we honestly shouldn't have to choose
"You can either play globally or play lag free?"
what kind of choice is that?

[Krausus]

Yea... I know.. and we honestly shouldn't have to choose
"You can either play globally or play lag free?"
what kind of choice is that?

an unfun one for sure.

[Rane]

that is THE BIGGEST question I've had since launch...
Is your gameplay experience (and by that I mean lag) vastly different depending on what part of the world you're in?

I really just want to pack up all of my LS and fly to Japan to do a couple Ifrit/moogle runs and see if we notice a huge difference
I LOVE playing with people from all over the world.. Japanese, EU, even Australian players (Just messin with ya Sophia)
I really do... but the gameplay has to take priority
It just has to...
If the game is drastically different due to lag from being in a different part of the world... then its not going to encourage global unity... It's going to further separate and in many cases alienate the different groups

tl;dr Priority 1: as little lag as possible for everyone. Priority 2: A multilingual, multicultural, global experience

I played FFXI when I lived in Japan, and I played it back in the U.S. No noticeable difference in terms of lag. I also played WoW in English from Japan. On the WoW client I could actually check my latency. I remember it being higher than that of my friend who was playing in the U.S., but it was still in the green. Again, I saw no noticeable impact on gameplay.

When I tried playing Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix online...THEN I noticed the effects of latency. But as for FFXI...well, it was as slow in Japan as it was in the U.S. The delay in taking out your weapon, etc was present in the client itself. But having a smooth MMO experience playing on servers on the other side of the world is definitely possible: U.S. WoW is snappy even when playing from Japan.