Profanity Filter and OCE Data Center

[Enkidoh]

On your first point, maybe if players toned down the sailor-talk a bit, then they wouldn't have to be banned, with or without the profanity filter. It might be considered 'hip' and 'edgy' to sprinkle swear words in every sentence like sauce over a particularly offensive cassarole, but it's not condoned socially, either in a formal setting or in a social game. Especially for a game that has a 'teen' rating in the US which FFXIV does. So SE is getting more stringent with in-game player behaviour.

As for your second point, SE considers Australia close enough to Japan to not bother with 'Australian' servers, so I don't see this ever happening (and I say that as an Australian player who plays on a US server). Believe it or not Australia's player population is not considered high enough to warrant the expense I'm afraid.

[Sylve]

On your first point, maybe if players toned down the sailor-talk a bit, then they wouldn't have to be banned, with or without the profanity filter. It might be considered 'hip' and 'edgy' to sprinkle swear words in every sentence like sauce over a particularly offensive cassarole, but it's not condoned socially, either in a formal setting or in a social game. Especially for a game that has a 'teen' rating in the US which FFXIV does. So SE is getting more stringent with in-game player behaviour.

As for your second point, SE considers Australia close enough to Japan to not bother with 'Australian' servers, so I don't see this ever happening (and I say that as an Australian player who plays on a US server). Believe it or not Australia's player population is not considered high enough to warrant the expense I'm afraid.

Speaking also as an Australian on a US server, I use WTFast and get 166 ping.
To the JP servers I get 130 ping.

The undersea cables that connect us to Japan and the US aren't too different in length. The problem is Routing in most cases. My ISP takes me halfway round the world to get the servers, so my natural ping is 350~ and spikes constantly. With WTFast, there are 5 total nodes in the connection, with one being the source and one being the destination. Makes a hell of a difference.
Be nice to have sub 30 ping with an actual AU server though. Given the expense of hosting on here though … We'll likely never get one.