Servers for each Region

[Jinko]

LOL *watches as the forum flips out*

Oh yea I love playing with JP players .. not that I ever do .. or that I can understand them ... but it sure is cool. /sarcasm

so jinko, what was the point of this quote then? particularly this part ^ "or that i can understand them" do you understand my point now?
theres several interpretations to that quote 1. just being mentally lazy so you pulled it out of your ass 2, just another ignorant point to add to the list of this forum 3. you went to jail in japan, /drop soap j/k j/k 4. your social skills just suck? youre ashamed of dreams of running around in power ranger spandex? joke... so yeah, you did say you cant communicate with japanese players, wich was a lazy (and open to other interpretations) way to say the obvious, a language barrier exists. but resourceful players get past it.

having said all that, i hate the thought of segregated servers based on languange/ time zone, but i support choice, theres many legit reasons besides language, i wont step into that vipers nest , unless it rears its ugly head, if it does i have no problem smashing it.

If I have to explain sarcasm to you .. well I'm not even guna bother.

We've definitely played a different FFXI. Did you fight Provenance Watcher? Lol slow paced. The only "slow paced" bosses were the original rank missions bosses, every expansion the bosses were a lot more active to the point you had to be on your toes.

By the way, FFXI being "slow paced" still had nothing to do with the servers being in Japan, because those servers were a hell of a lot more optimized than XIV's.

Ironically, you say you belittle no one's opinions..yet as usual, you do whenever XI is mentioned.

Yea its getting a little boring having to address you every time I say something about FFXI, time to grow a thicker skin Elexia, because when I say something about FFXI its actually not directed at you. /clicks ignore

[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.

[Antipika]

We've definitely played a different FFXI. Did you fight Provenance Watcher? Lol slow paced. The only "slow paced" bosses were the original rank missions bosses, every expansion the bosses were a lot more active to the point you had to be on your toes.

By the way, FFXI being "slow paced" still had nothing to do with the servers being in Japan, because those servers were a hell of a lot more optimized than XIV's.

Ironically, you say you belittle no one's opinions..yet as usual, you do whenever XI is mentioned.

Did you ever play anything beside XI and XIV? When I mean play it's at a high level (so raiding etc.) If yes then you would understand how XI is slow paced, and there is no need to use recent content as Provenance Watcher to try to justify than XI is a fast paced game.

Overall, it is slow compared to most MMOs in the market.

Could it be WoW, Aion, Rift, SWTOR or even older games like DAoC,... These are fast paced games, where lot of abilities have typically have a 1.50sec or less casting time. Lot of instants abilities (but coupled with a GCD that's 1~1.5sec, still). Lot of mechanisms involving very fast movement from players in order to survive, etc. Cooldowns are typically very short. Encounters are short but very intense.

XI had nothing of this and still don't as of today (even if yes it did become slightly faster). You don't make your point valid by being an XI or XIV player only. You do if you played both of these games alongside other triple A titles in the past decade. That would allow you to say if a game is slow or fast paced. Being slow or fast is relative to others products in the market.

[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.

[Fionlagh]

Hrmm, the sarcasm card, unexpected. sarcasm is often used to make a point, it was ridiculously obvious to see yours in it.
its cool though, we both made our points of view known , no reason for me to continue the convo.

[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.

[Ramsey]

Square Soft just doesn't have the resources to do so.

No?

Maybe if they combined with Enix to form... some sort of... some sort of... SUPER RPG company!? Square-Enix!?

[Valmonte]

No?

Maybe if they combined with Enix to form... some sort of... some sort of... SUPER RPG company!? Square-Enix!?

yes...but i'm willing to bet that Enix's appointed CEO will kill off the FF Franchise, by pulling massive financial and development resources to there flag ship titles Dues EX and Dragon Quest.....oh wait yeah...that's already happened.