A new hope rises for LA Data Center!

[Jin-]

I'd be amazed if there were enough players to justify the huge cost of a DC in LA. 2 million active subs, I am curious how many are in LA and how much revenue they generate via mogstation etc. I understand the desire though given the ping issues. I just don't think it will happen.

Same reason Spanish servers fail nearly always and more and more games aren't translated to Spanish anymore. Population is gigantic yet the actual player amount isn't enough. Otherwise the servers would be here. Companies have the data from where people connect

[VelKallor]

I really hope LA Data center gets put in the works.

Second that.

[Sotaris]

Good luck with that.

[Alenonimo]

I'm brazilian and I would love if there was a datacenter somewhere close by. The 200ms ping is really annoying.


Personally I don't even care for the localization, to be honest. I can play it in English just fine. But it surely would be nice if the game had spanish and brazilian portuguese localization so I could finally bug all my family and friends to join.

[Penthea]

My guess as to why it was not on the table right now is because Australia barely had any COVID cases and even then it was all set-up remotely. I can only imagine how bad it would have been trying to set it up in Brazil given the insane death rate there.

Yea that some cold hard truth right there. It is very possible that SE can't even entertain the idea of a LA data centre right now because of how the pandemic is being handled in some countries there.

I still would like to see LA get a data centre though. Just when it's safe for SE to do it. I would like players there to have the same sort of experience I have with the game.

[Jothax]

We need a SA DC asap, im from Chile and i get a ping about 169 to 200 ms to the NA servers, on other regard, its a surprise that a company like Square enix that translates almost all of their games to so many languages just let the third most spoken language around the world just out of the list, because some nonsense reason about marketing, i mean, why to translate so many games like ALL the rest of the final fantasy franchise games and leave XIV out, much luck to the this thread my friend.

[Sotaris]

Just cause spanish is spoken by many people don't mean many spanish talking people are playing games, or this game.

You can't compare a standalone AAA title in the FF universe cause this is a MMO with continuous development with VA etc. It would cost more than it returns moneywise for the company. They are in to make money, like any company.

[Gameronkeyboard]

Just cause spanish is spoken by many people don't mean many spanish talking people are playing games, or this game.

You can't compare a standalone AAA title in the FF universe cause this is a MMO with continuous development with VA etc. It would cost more than it returns moneywise for the company. They are in to make money, like any company.

So basicaly what are yous saying, is the spanish language worth with over 500 million speakers around the world, that have at least 300 million players, and they can bring around 600 thousand players paying a month sub around $6,00, when for manteining a translation team is around $400,000, plus a $2 million for making the translation.

yeah, it looks like it's really not worth it.

OBS: i talking about the translation, not datacenter, a datacenter is really expensive, something like $20 million and more the maintenance

[Sotaris]

Sure. But your math only works if 600,000 spanish players were playing this game. SE has the data, I don't think there is.

[Gameronkeyboard]

there is not this much player, becuase there is no translation, i know a bunch of people that just don't play because there is no translation