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

[Noir]

From massively interview:

"Moving on from strictly mechanical questions, the issues of several players regarding physical server locations was noted. While Yoshida could make no firm comment at the time, he stated that the team is well aware of the issues regarding time zones and lag most notable for European gamers. He also noted that gamers affected by these issues should look for some announcement regarding it within the next two months."

FINALLY an interview that talk about this...

They finally admitted that western players, expecially euro ppl, have notable lag (i'm italian, and i can confirm this ) .

They're still thinking about this anyway, but saying that we should look for some announcement within the next two months, is already good think...

I can't think about an announcement that says something like:

"We're sorry, we know that you western players have issues, but after we invested milions of $$$ in this project, we cannot help you anymore." So i'm positive about this..

What do you think? Let's cross the fingers btw...

This Crap engine is the cause. Wait till 2.0 and we will be lag free.

[Risae]

This Crap engine is the cause. Wait till 2.0 and we will be lag free.

The input lag and all of this mess is NOT because of the crappy engine. Even when i'm playing on a TF2 server that is located in japan i will not have a better connection than 300ms.

The only solution to this would be regional servers. Iirc the european team is stationed in London, maybe they could place the server there? Playing an MMO with a ping over 150ms is NOT fun.

[Jynx]

Playing an MMO with a ping over 150ms is NOT fun.

People faired perfectly fine in Final Fantasy XI...Hell they even had "FUN"

[Valmonte]

People faired perfectly fine in Final Fantasy XI...Hell they even had "FUN"

with a Receive rate of over 2000 in all the major hot spots no less....in xiv i'm lucking if my receive rate breaks 100

[Risae]

People faired perfectly fine in Final Fantasy XI...Hell they even had "FUN"

Never played FFXI so can't comment on that, but did you ever play a fast paced MMO (WoW for example) with a ping over 200?

[Valmonte]

Never played FFXI so can't comment on that, but did you ever play a fast paced MMO (WoW for example) with a ping over 200?

XIV is far from being as twitchy as WoW.

[Dragonheart]

People faired perfectly fine in Final Fantasy XI...Hell they even had "FUN"

Even if XI latency was better, it was a dead slow and even more static game worse than XIV (but it was ok 10 years, ago but now really NO. ) So the latency feeling was better.

Never played FFXI so can't comment on that, but did you ever play a fast paced MMO (WoW for example) with a ping over 200?

This, i remember when there where rarely laggy night with 300-400 ms of latency (full server in italian primetime) and most intelligent thing to do was skip the raid night cuz even if it was slightly playable (still better than XIV lol) .. you had no chance to survive with that latency (avoid boss special moves, kill fast the boss cuz you know, in modern game there is the "enrage" usually in 10-15 min).

As i said before, people are "stuck" on XI or never tried High leven endgame in other games, and this is the greatest problem. Guess why Yoshi-P invited the team play a bunch of western MMO :P

[Jynx]

As i said before, people are "stuck" on XI, and this is the great problem.

Sound more like your "Stuck" on twitch gameplay mechanics.

[Dragonheart]

Sound more like your "Stuck" on twitch gameplay mechanics.

I tried almost every tipe of mmo, i started with XI (played for 5 years, but now in 2012 i will never back on a such slow game) , then i stayed on wow for 3 years, then XIV, rift, swtor, and lastly tera, without mention the lolf2p.

So imho i have e better idea of what ppl wants than who has played only XI.. No?

And again, guess why Yoshi-P invited the team to play many western mmo... He said the jp developer where good only at make single player games (well imho in this gen, not even them) .