Servers for each Region

[KiriA500]

If everyone you play with is in the same region, it'll be the same problem in you have segregated servers.

[Jinko]

Oh look its Jinko being constructive.

Nothing new there though.. right ^.-

[ChickNorris]

I am not sure I understand. You want more people on at the same time you are competing for the same resources?

[Rokien]

I will have to say no to this, if you missed my thread here is why click here

[SolArisa]

Why is that??

Because a huge reason for me to play are the people I play with. I want to meet people from all over the world. Thanks to Square Enix I, who live in Switzerland, have real life friends in the UK, Germany, Thailand, Israel, Florida, California, New York, Oregon. And with "real life" I actually mean real life, like knowing and visiting those outside of the game, too. For example, we had linkshell meetings in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (2 times), Florida, and now California in 3 weeks with several people attending several or even all of them. This year alone I had two visitors from different countries and continents at my place and I may be visiting someone in Bangkok next November. SE practices globalization in its purest form, and I sincerely hope they will never stop with it and allow me to happily see people of different cultures and countries from all around the world playing together for another decade. And I'll continue to avoid those tons of other MMORPGs which are regional and PC only - I'll leave those to the people who think that the world ends a few miles east of NYC.

Most MMO have regional server and most of the time they are localized servers too which makes it for smoother gameplay.

That's a myth. We're not in the 90s anymore, differences in global round trip times are a matter of a few tens of milliseconds maximum.

[Delsus]

Because a huge reason for me to play are the people I play with. I want to meet people from all over the world. Thanks to Square Enix I, who live in Switzerland, have real life friends in the UK, Germany, Thailand, Israel, Florida, California, New York, Oregon. And with "real life" I actually mean real life, like knowing and visiting those outside of the game, too. For example, we had linkshell meetings in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (2 times), Florida, and now California in 3 weeks with several people attending several or even all of them. This year alone I had two visitors from different countries and continents at my place and I may be visiting someone in Bangkok next November. SE practices globalization in its purest form, and I sincerely hope they will never stop with it and allow me to happily see people of different cultures and countries from all around the world playing together for another decade. And I'll continue to avoid those tons of other MMORPGs which are regional and PC only - I'll leave those to the people who think that the world ends a few miles east of NYC.



That's a myth. We're not in the 90s anymore, differences in global round trip times are a matter of a few tens of milliseconds maximum.

+1 to this, the only reason I have not met the people I have met in game irl is entirely financial, there is one person in paticular I want to see more than anything in New Jearsy I met on FFXI, but right now I cannot afford a £500 flight over there, absolutely no other reason.

[Risae]

As already said earlier, square soft will do something like this:

-Start of 2.0
-new "Beginner Friendly" Region recommended server

New players will most most likely choose one from these.

[Fear]

As already said earlier, square soft will do something like this:

-Start of 2.0
-new "Beginner Friendly" Region recommended server

New players will most most likely choose one from these.

Surely you mean Square-Enix, Soft hasn't been around since 2001. :P

Anyway I think we should keep the servers mixed, it adds more life into it, Regional servers will be a waste of resources during downtime (for example a EU server between 1am - 9am) + I like playing with other players I learned a lot about Japanese through FFXI and met some nice JP friends.

[Onidemon]

I am not sure I understand. You want more people on at the same time you are competing for the same resources?

We are not competing for anything. This is not XI, there is no claim wars and hopefully will never be.

[Onidemon]

As already said earlier, square soft will do something like this:

-Start of 2.0
-new "Beginner Friendly" Region recommended server

New players will most most likely choose one from these.

If that is the plan and if 2.0 is popular enough to draw a lot of new players, then my guess is the regional servers will probably be the most populated and down the road that might force them to make it all regional...