Square Enix, Stop Ignoring Players distant from datacenters in FFXIV

[RitsukoSonoda]

hate to point it out to you...

but even your heroic Blizzard never had South American servers. why? its not cost effective to set up for the number of players plain and simple.

Well Blizzard is a US company... so they think only the US is America. Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America are cryptids to them like Bigfoot, Mothman, Jersy Devil, Nessie, etc... :P lol

[RobynDaBank]

hate to point it out to you...

but even your heroic Blizzard never had South American servers. why? its not cost effective to set up for the number of players plain and simple.

But Blizzard does have SA servers??

Edit to clarify, they don't have servers for WoW because of the infrastructure required. But their other games definitely have SA servers.

[RitsukoSonoda]

But Blizzard does have LA servers??

Edit to clarify, they don't have servers for WoW because of the infrastructure required. But their other games definitely have LA servers.

Well Blizzard HQ I think was in Irvine, CA which basically puts it in Los Angeles.

[grinkdaboy]

all i want is an NA east data center. that's all. i don't know who was asking for an OCE one because the OCE people i knew had no interest in leaving (the only ones i know who have are ones that are southeast asian), they all told me that they grew accustomed to playing at high ping

[RobynDaBank]

Well Blizzard HQ I think was in Irvine, CA which basically puts it in Los Angeles.

Sorry, I'll edit to say Latin America, lol.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

all i want is an NA east data center. that's all. i don't know who was asking for an OCE one because the OCE people i knew had no interest in leaving (the only ones i know who have are ones that are southeast asian), they all told me that they grew accustomed to playing at high ping

It used to be a fairly common request here on the forums. And they had a fan event the devs went to in Australia where they experienced it themselves.



Those posts have obviously died off now, and I'm sure the DC didn't fill up as expected from all the buzz the topic used to draw.



This is likely one of those catch-22s. SE is terrible if they don't add them, but if they do and no one switches, we'll, what was the point. Data centers cost a ton of money (not just buildings, servers, networking, etc.). My job is supporting DC infrastructure, and builds of a few dozen servers cost in the millions.



It's not as cheap as people seem to think it is, and that's capital expenses, which companies are loath to spend.

[hagare]

The game never released in South America, in fact your people have to fake their info and use a VPN in order to create an account to play and most of them buy 30 days cards from serial keys sites.

Good luck amigo.

you're thinking south east asia xD

[Takamorisan]

Regarding South America, having a server in Miami would do wonders and at the same time would benefit East Coast Players. California being the location for the servers is not good even for Americans.

As for the """Brazilian""" server in WoW they are located in Chicago.

[Mika_Zahard]

The game never released in South America, in fact your people have to fake their info and use a VPN in order to create an account to play and most of them buy 30 days cards from serial keys sites.

Good luck amigo.

No you dont have to use vpn nor fake info. You can use your own country information, as long as you know your zip code.

[Deedlit]

Good luck. We can't even get a decent connection in the US.