Thread: US Servers at 2.0?

Seriously, why is it only north americans ask for region specific servers?

I repeat: you guys aren't the only ones playing the mmorpg. We all suffer certain delay.

The servers are in japan, the game is japanese, it seems neutral enough for everyone to have it balanced. If everyone suffers the same delay, then it isn't an issue. Well, yes it'd be against japanese players but ... seriously, everything in XIV is instanced or has mad respawn rate. I see this as a non issue.

Whats annoying about XIV is all the checks the client-server does. Once they get rid of those in 2.0 it'll be at least as good as XI (I hope).

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.

Originally Posted by Majidah

Seriously, why is it only north americans ask for region specific servers?

I repeat: you guys aren't the only ones playing the mmorpg. We all suffer certain delay.

The servers are in japan, the game is japanese, it seems neutral enough for everyone to have it balanced. If everyone suffers the same delay, then it isn't an issue. Well, yes it'd be against japanese players but ... seriously, everything in XIV is instanced or has mad respawn rate. I see this as a non issue.

Whats annoying about XIV is all the checks the client-server does. Once they get rid of those in 2.0 it'll be at least as good as XI (I hope).

Checks aren't the reason why people seem 10 miles behind you on auto follow when in fact they are on you heels.
Yeah the inventory and npc system blows but there is so much wrong with the game other than the fact they check just about anything. Next time you should probably come out with you own ideas instead of reading something, somewhere and become an expert.

Originally Posted by Jinko

You obviously have selective comprehension, because there would still be International servers available to those who wanted it.

Don't blame them, they do not know any different. They are XI diehards with no experience anywhere else. I used to be the same way too, until I played Rift. After downing Akylios I finally understand what a boss fight experience should be and if Yoshi-P can capture that we will be so lucky. Unfortunately we have people here who are so caught up in their ways that they are afraid of any change. It will be nice in 2.0 maybe they can make some fights with some real mechanics.

Originally Posted by Majidah

ragnarok is a recommended EU server but not because of the server's location, but to ensure they can find people with their same playtime. It was done this way because of the low XIV playerbase. If this had been a success they wouldn't have done it.

Personally I too prefer to play with people from all around the globe and know that people from somewhere in the world will be online at any hour. I don't care where they live.

Success in Europe*.

Game being a success in Japan or North American won't help help to have a proper EU player base on all Worlds. EU is a completely different market.

Even while XI was at its golden age with its half a million players, we were still short on EU players on some Worlds. I don't don't how is that gonna be any better with XIV.

By short I mean, there was people online off course, but it wasn't possible to do what you wanted to do because there was no [job] in [level range], or there was only ONE major linkshell running [this event] etc. Luckily there was still some JP players around, going to bed late.

I couldn't care less about language people are speaking or from where they are. All I want is people to play with when I want to play. So ideally prime time during my time zone.