Servers for each Region

[Vonleo]

Nope don't want it i love playing with random japanese players or any other non english speaking player. It makes the game more alive for me and the experience is pretty awesome. I mean whats the big deal about using the auto translator to speak to them and ask them to join your party or help you with a quest? you basically only need "do you need it?" "please assist" and the third would be the quest your on.

[Ramsey]

Servers for each Region

Or... another idea...

[Zezlar]

Unless there's a huge difference in server lag i'll stay with a worldwide server. The Japanese buy my wares, they would have no items without me!

[Noir]

HI,

I don't know if this will ever happen or not but i'd like to see server grouped by Region. Servers for NA, Europe and Japan/Asia. I have nothing against other nations and it's people or language. But having so many different time zones jammed into the same server is not good. Makes it hard to schedule stuff with your team mates.

Most of the time NA and Japanese people stick with their own groups. Why waste space on a server if you have X % of people who are not willing to play with you or that can't even understand you when you talk?


Wouldn't it be easier if everyone in your server was from NA times zones, spoke english and you could interact with 100% of the server population? It would make grouping a lot easier.

Lol? I think the opposite. Having Many different people makes it easier to find parties and people to play. Not everyone work mornings. Some people work evening and overnight.

[Atoli]

I don't mind it
It's different from the server merge which was trying to destroy bonds between players at first.
It's just the option to only play with people from your timezone, and I don't think that's a bad thing.

I transfered to the EU recommended server and I don't really regret it.
I lost my NA LS which is sad, but I made many new friends who speak my language, our LS grew and there is so much to do during the time I am online
Well, I understand people though who don't want to give up the bonds they made.
But if they introduce regional servers in 2.0, it would be optional to transfer there, nobody would be FORCED to so there is no reason to oppose the OPs idea.

[Xatsh]

Regional Servers would dmg my ls so I say no to them.

Benefits:
1) Less Lag (Reduces lag by about 1/10th-1/9th of a second due to physical location)

Negatives:
1) Lower Playerbase per server (servers will still cap the same more or less per primetime, there will just be 1 instead of 3)
2) Unable to group outside of prime times.
3) Worse Economy (People only one at 1 time, so economy functions 8hrs a day basically)
4) Cannot play with others globally. (My ls atm has people from 9 different countries in it)


Regional Servers honestly only matter much for fast paces action games and FPS. This is not an action mmo or shooter so, the minor improvement in lag at least to me, I know many will disagree, is not worth the horrible negatives that come with it.

I say SE give choices but only if they are warranted. Regional server hosted in Japan are 100% pointless. Too many regional servers and you kill the game by spreading the population too thin. Too Few world servers and you force ppl into regional... which would kill the game for many. So good luck balancing it SE, you can't screw this up.

[Klefth]

No. Absolutely not.

[Krausus]

HI,

I don't know if this will ever happen or not but i'd like to see server grouped by Region. Servers for NA, Europe and Japan/Asia. I have nothing against other nations and it's people or language. But having so many different time zones jammed into the same server is not good. Makes it hard to schedule stuff with your team mates.

Most of the time NA and Japanese people stick with their own groups. Why waste space on a server if you have X % of people who are not willing to play with you or that can't even understand you when you talk?


Wouldn't it be easier if everyone in your server was from NA times zones, spoke english and you could interact with 100% of the server population? It would make grouping a lot easier.

eh your reasoning for wanting regional servers does not make sense

"Makes it hard to schedule stuff with your team mates"

how is this even possible, just make sure your team mates share the same schedule. Which you would also have to do on a regional server. To be honest the only good reason to have regional servers is because of latency issues.

[Yumi_Hibiki]

no regional servers please, all reasons are already covered in this thread as far as i saw

[Risae]

Servers that are LOCATED in Europe/United States are not going to happen, Square Soft just doesn't have the resources to do so. The language barrier/time zones are also problems that would be needed to dealt with, so are maintainance and keeping the server up to date.
Would FFXIV magically have more than lets say, a million subscribers, THEN maybe they would start to enhance/backup their teams in europe and America. But before we don't get rid of the horrible image we're having now, the server will stay in japan.