Regional Servers? (Opinions please)

[Jamesy]

no whole point of mmo's from square enix were always based on cooperation and always allowed intermingling of different people unless you want to make 1 regional server were only chinese people can play on i see no point in this because to be honest 90% of chinese players i have ever seen on ffxi were always RMT.

[Tibian]

Yes to region servers. I love being able to talk, communicate, and schedule people during times which are the most convenient for me. Global servers hinder that effort. Secondly, using auto translate is not an effective tool to do content with.

Nothing wrong with that, and nothing wrong with wanting to play with international players if you choose so.

Thus, the proper solution is a mixture of servers.

[Ptolemy]

You guys do know that even if they wanted to create regional servers they can't because it would just seperate the very few players they have undoing the server merges they did?

IF they are coming , i expect it to be atleast a year after 2.0 to see if they can afford to seperate them if they gain enough players between the regions to allow players to play without the loss of other players to play with



Then again, there is the "Content finder" in 2.0.... which then, it won't matter at all, if they implement it and correctly, the server populations won't matter >.>

[Rokien]

No, no, NO!~

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-my-community!

[Jamison]

I wonder if there's a half-way solution, keeping the main server itself in Japan but having regional servers for instances. It could determine which area has the lowest ping for the majority of the party, and offload the work for the battle there.

[Grim_Lion]

Ya, I mean, even the JP seem to think so with their /sh's (JP ONLY).

If you have to advertise that there's a population of the game you dont want to play with, you know there's a problem and its up to SE to fix it, or deal with the bitching until they do.

[Ladon]

If they did it right they could have physical regional servers but then global logical servers. Then say Aegis is actually made up of two physical computer clusters one sitting in a datacenter in Japan then one in Los Angeles. Clients connect to the server they are closest to then SE has a very fast dedicated line from datacenter to datacenter to connect the two clusters and have them operate as one game world.

[Mirage]

If they did it right they could have physical regional servers but then global logical servers. Then say Aegis is actually made up of two physical computer clusters one sitting in a datacenter in Japan then one in Los Angeles. Clients connect to the server they are closest to then SE has a very fast dedicated line from datacenter to datacenter to connect the two clusters and have them operate as one game world.

Is it really?

I mean that does sound cool, but is it true?

[Dawiichan]

If it is true that this game is supposed to give PvP content that isn't "lacking" like other FF mmos (pretty much FFXI), then yes. I'm sorry but the complaints would be too often that it would be a bad idea not to do so.

At the very least they can just create regional servers and then global servers.

[TimonLoon]

I am for regional servers. Those people that say that they won't be able to find people at X time of the day are forgetting one thing: Cross Server Group Finder.