Servers for each Region

[Soukyuu]

I'm pretty sure they said there won't be any servers located outside Japan - which means regional servers won't do anything except segregating the playerbase. If you don't want to play with people from other countries, find yourself an LS based around your timezone. If there is none on your server, there is probably going to be some way to transfer servers.

[Jinko]

Takes two to make an argument doesn't it ?, so why are you calling me the thick one ?

[Delsus]

Takes two to make an argument doesn't it ?, so why are you calling me the thick one ?

Because your the one who can't read and can't tell that I was arguing for the app, against someone who sits in a bunker with a foil hat on.

Then you say I am at fault and I am saying its insecure, go there and read it rather than derail this thread more.

[Bebekurenai]

I would not like to get rid of all-areas-servers as of having all people mixed up, in my experience it makes it a lot richer, you have people all the time and just meet new friends from around the globe.

Add them? Yes, to please those whould want to play just with their zone, so everyone's happy.

But I would maybe, speaking of which or almost, go a bit ahead and propose physical servers in each continent. SE already has many offices around the globe, USA, Europe, and it helped many other games online to reduce server lag with just synching. It would get rid of most of the lag, and make connections more "equal" and fluent. Making it all come/go to/from Japan makes it connection heavy, laggy, and puts those not in Japan a little bit behind (just remembering claim drama back in FF11). And I experienced myself WoW and Aion (which haver physical servers not just on one place) a lot smoother even with more people in the same spot. Of course you would get some lag, but nothing comparable to Uldah where you have to wait for everything to load for a few long seconds.


P.S.
Zumi lol, I didn't notice I've posted what you already said... sorry ><

[Jinko]

Fion ?? I don't believe I ever said Japanese people can't speak English did I ?

I have played with plenty of JP players had a good time, some could speak english some couldn't I don't see what that has to do with anything.

My point is I want local servers because of Latency, as I already said I am happy to play with any language French, German, Japanese.

i support having options, mmo's are in large part about communication. having said that i hope most of us feel its worth the language barrier challenge and choose international servers, i look foward to meeting & playing with a diversity of players, its damn well worth the CONS.

I can appreciate that, but for me personally I don't think it is.
Gameplay is more important than the people who I meet, I can make friends from the EU just as easily as I can from NA, I can't say I have made any friends from JP mainly due to the language barrier.

[Galliano]

On the one hand, I would prefer to play on a server closer to me, but on the other, all my friends in game are from around the globe and so I would need to be on the same server as them.

[Delsus]

The cost of moving the servers would be alot, mainly because the infrastructure for SE's regional office is not based around serving the game they will need alot of equipment upgrading, I cannot see it happening because of that reason.

If you get regional servers they will be in Japan and dead, have fun on them

[Jinko]

The cost of moving the servers would be alot, mainly because the infrastructure for SE's regional office is not based around serving the game they will need alot of equipment upgrading, I cannot see it happening because of that reason.

If you get regional servers they will be in Japan and dead, have fun on them

Thats why it should be planned prior to the new servers, that way they can buy and build them at the same time in different places around the world.

SE have a US headquaters and they have Edios in Europe so it makes sense, granted their main programmers are in Japan but like I say other MMO's manage it just fine.

[Delsus]

Thats why it should be planned prior to the new servers, that way they can buy and build them at the same time in different places around the world.

SE have a US headquaters and they have Edios in Europe so it makes sense, granted their main programmers are in Japan but like I say other MMO's manage it just fine.

Its the cost of it, to upgrade all thier equipment in San Fransico and London (most likey places) will cost the atleast 50k, possibly over 100k, SE has dumped alot of money into this game already, and 2.0 has (while we all hope this turns out to be wrong) the possibility of failure, do you really think SE want to pay that much and see 2.0 fail?

I have no idea how big the server rooms in thier regional offices are either, it could require physical expasion of thier offices to accomodate the servers, which is extra cost. It may come if the game ends up a success and they are confident to spend the money, but before its a success no way in hell.

[Jinko]

Its the cost of it, to upgrade all thier equipment in San Fransico and London (most likey places) will cost the atleast 50k, possibly over 100k, SE has dumped alot of money into this game already, and 2.0 has (while we all hope this turns out to be wrong) the possibility of failure, do you really think SE want to pay that much and see 2.0 fail?

Thats still doesn't change the fact that free to play manage to pull it off.

They have to build these servers anyway, so why not build them in specific regions ?

I have no idea how big the server rooms in thier regional offices are either, it could require physical expasion of thier offices to accomodate the servers, which is extra cost. It may come if the game ends up a success and they are confident to spend the money, but before its a success no way in hell.

I think making the choice after 2.0 is the worst thing they can do, it would require much more work and upheaval after the game is running than prior.

As much as I want regional/local servers I am also realistic and know that the chances are next to zero mainly because .. well it's SE we are talking about.