Thread: US Servers at 2.0?

Originally Posted by Jynx

Developers have stated multiple times that the largest latency issues isn't the servers location.

I live in Canary Islands, Spain and i have a 6Mb ADSL



don't tell me is not because they are on japan. Of course servers will improve, but for example i have no chances in pvp vs a Japanese player, and that is unfair.

Originally Posted by Elexia

It's not because they're in Japan, this has been debunked by not only players but Square Enix themselves numerous times. It has to do with the poor server equipment and online interface of an unoptimized game. However europe in general has a native problem connecting to even American based online games, so if anything you can say it's because of being in europe region is your problem.

I have zero delay in FFXI, a Japanese based MMORPG when I play from America and even when I was visiting family in Canada and France I still had no delay with that game, so no it's not because it's in Japan, it's because the game is unoptimized and the servers are poor.

It's not like trying to play a Korean only MMO in EU where you need a VPN that's slower than dial-up.

Uh? I don't get what you mean with Zero delay. Theres is not such thing in nature that resembles to a "Zero Delay". The faster method of comunitation know to men (practically impossible right now) is using a pair of atoms in the same Quantum State but even with that you have a time to decode/encode.

FFXI suffer of the same problem that XIV and any other mmo server based, that the distance between you and the server add a time between the time you press a bottom and the result shows up on the screen. The other class of mmo are the client based that the client control all the interaction with the world and reports it back to the server. That kind of client feels like a offline game but generally is easily hackable.

Having a US located server will help a lot with the lag that people experience. Even if they improve to the better possible their network/hardware there will be always the time that take the package you sent get to the server.

Originally Posted by Signy

Uh? I don't get what you mean with Zero delay. Theres is not such thing in nature that resembles to a "Zero Delay".

"Zero delay" means my gameplay doesn't suffer like it does with FFXIV (eruption as a popular example), so again it's not the server location.

So if the server location is the problem, why is it that when I trio-box 3 characters and I say make a WHM character cast Cure VI it pops up at the same time on all screens? When a monster readies an attack move it's displayed instantaneously on all screens? Comparing FFXI to FFXIV you would certainly say it's a problem with FFXIV's architecture, a problem Square themselves stated is the cause.

Regional servers will not fix anything, even playing Rift I've had more lag with that game than I did with any Korean/Chinese/Japanese based MMO that allowed US connections.

Originally Posted by Elexia

However europe in general has a native problem connecting to even American based online games, so if anything you can say it's because of being in europe region is your problem.

I have zero delay in FFXI, a Japanese based MMORPG when I play from America and even when I was visiting family in Canada and France I still had no delay with that game, so no it's not because it's in Japan, it's because the game is unoptimized and the servers are poor.

1: So is my fault living where i am? Then, that Square-Enix don't sell the ffxiv here, if they do it, they have to support my problems.

2: False, you are saying you have 0 delay in FFXI from europe? You could say FFXI dont need a fast response coz PvP there have no sense, and u are used to it. But YoshiP want this game to have a decent PvP system, and 350 ping (Without server calculations) is not a decent response time. You can Blablabal all what you want, i am communications engineer and i know a little about communications delay. Having 12000km and therefore a great number of nodes between point A and B significantly increases the latency


idealizing a lossless connection that links directly my home with Square-Enix, I Still Have 50ms more than a japanese player. Idealizing!

300000 km/s is not as fast when you talk of 12000-15000km away

Originally Posted by Jynx

Developers have stated multiple times that the largest latency issues isn't the servers location.

Either way I'm against encouraging people to sequester themselves into NA / EU / JP servers. I play a MMO to play with people around the world. I play at odd hours for a "NA" player and enjoy being able to find people at any givin time of day.

I'd be all for the "Give em a choice of local or global" servers but it would probably just spiral into everyone cloistering themselves in the regional servers.

Regardless if they say that or not we will be looking a 200+ ping from Japan. The making of challenging fights with lots of mechanics is much more difficult to do with a ping like that. I don't quite know where you get your information from.