Quote Originally Posted by Dannythm View Post
I think it's more like for certain encounters and stuff that needs low latency you connect to a datacenter near your area to retrieve the info (ie: timing on ifrit cracks), but your server and character are still somewhere else, so this way they get rid of the latency problems and can keep the community as is.
This would be perfect, but it's not what the translations said at all, which is why they have to clarify this, imho.

I must say, I enjoyed the atmosphere of the event, especially the devs slipping into informal speech, it really felt like they were closer to the audience than devs normally are.