Physical/regional servers FINALLY confirmed ??! (Y)

[Hyrist]

Money wise, I'm not sure the game can support it. But if money was a non-issue here, and we're talking just theory...

You're going to find that quite a few people prefer the international servers over region locked ones. FFXI simply thrived better in that sort of community and for good reason, it was a way to connect with friend from across the globe, which was the primary reason why FFXI was as successful as it was.

It's stereotyping to assume that players on the other side of language barriers have no interest in playing with people on the other side of said barriers. Many like conversing or just being a part of that larger community.

But if there were, say one server for each region that was region locked? I could see the draw in that for some.

- I just don't see it being feasible economically is all. Why pay to run a server that's only peak active during a specific number of hours? Right now we've got peak times pretty well distributed, which means servers are getting optimum use.

[Mirage]

Calling a reduction from 250ms ping to around 120 ms or less "a few milliseconds" is kind of funny. Network latency could be halved for european players and reduced by over 70% for most of the american players by putting up servers on the east coast of the US for all of us outside of Asia. In addition, it would probably keep network latencies more stable.

Implementing regional servers doesn't mean you can't get friends outside of your country either. It's not like there would be one server for each country after all. Everyone in for example Italy or Sweden would be playing with *at least* everyone else in Europe, and probably also American players if they go for a dual location solution: one bunch of servers for the "west" and one bunch of servers for the "east". Additionally, this wouldn't be too much of a problem if they still let people choose freely which servers they wanted to join. Then the european players that want low latency for endgame play could choose an european server, which would make sense anyway because it would be practical to be on a server where most people in the endgame shell are in the same or similar time zones. At the same time, people who don't consider the endgame *that* important can still make characters on whichever servers their international friends are on.

With the quick leveling we have in this game (at least for now), it wouldn't be problematic for one person to have characters on multiple regional servers anyway. As far as I can see for the suggested pricing models for v2, the "basic service" will include one character per server, up to a maximum of 8 characters. That leaves plenty of space for characters on European servers, American servers and even Japanese servers.

With regional servers, we can all both have our cake, and eat it too!.

[ChiefCurrahee]

Regional servers? Not in the cards.

I'm sure we'll have more client side event timing rather than server side timing which we have now.

[Dragonheart]

I'd like to see ppl what will say when there will be the claiming wars for primals/hnm vs JP ppl ... Btw i really hope in regional servers, and even in choice to remain in international for who still want stay.

[LlenCoram]

No thanks. I love worldwide servers.

[Nemo5990]

You guys are abunch of derps lol . What they mean most likely mean is they'll be putting up server for US Europe and Japan in their respective areas. When FFXIV first was released you choose your server that best suited your connection some were 200ms others were 60-80 . They are simply just gonna have server in better areas of the world for all around players that doesn't stop us from staying on the server we are on.They would never close us in our own region hence Auto-Translate =D. And if this isn't what they are trying to implement then SE need to go back to the drawing boards ... xD

[Jynx]

When FFXIV first was released you choose your server that best suited your connection some were 200ms others were 60-80 . They are simply just gonna have server in better areas of the world for all around players

I hate to burst your "Derp" bubble but FFXIV and FFXI servers have always all been located in Japan.

[Nemo5990]

I hate to burst your "Derp" bubble but FFXIV and FFXI servers have always all been located in Japan.

I already know that I didn't say they weren't lol

[Linka]

Well im not an expert, but if you compare FFXI with FFXIV you will see that the performance of FFXIV is way bigger if it comes to Graphics f/e. So am i wrong if i would say that the Data that have to be transfered is way more? So that might explain it that like no one had this problem in FFXI before. I didnt had any lag Problems on FFXI either, but on FFXIV i do. It sucks if you run out of AoEs like 3 sec ago and you still get the dmg anyway <.< Only Thing you can do is watch the battle log for faster reaction thats all.
And yeah they talk here about the PHYSICAL data Servers so keep cool guys.

[Biggs]

I wonder if the 2 week thing is an indication of when the 2.0 website will be up?