Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Jeronlmo]

Its a series title, you change it, change the name, no prob, dont trick people into playing FF for years to get our sub-money and just rip the game appart.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

Actually, i think people have a short signed vision of this regional datacenters. i played wow years ago, and there you can choose to play in a regional server or internationals. The difference in lag was minimal and didn't affected gameplay at all if you played in a international server. I don't doubt will be the same here if i choose to play in a japanese datacenter, since packet loss will hopefully disappear.
Since this, i'm not worried at all

[Darshu]

Nostalgia... factor? I don't think I've ever felt nostalgic when seeing a recurrent theme in a FF game that I've played.

I could understand if it was a FF 1 only thing coming back at XIV, but something that almost EVERY single FF has had?

Nostalgia is such a different thing I'll just settle with the fact we probably have very different opinions on this.

[Faiyez]

Nostalgia... factor? I don't think I've ever felt nostalgic when seeing a recurrent theme in a FF game that I've played.

I had Magitek armor in mind when I was thinking about it.

[Darkillumina]

Friend's are temporary. Lag is forever.

[Croy]

Maybe people would read your thoughts on relevant topics if you didn't post so much bullsh*t in 248729 other threads.
Now back to your hole with you.


The statement about the data centers was unclear from the beginning, but hardly anyone could believe that SE would eliminate one of the key-features of their game, which make it so unique and lovable.

There are other games with servers located in Japan - none of them has lag issues as XIV does. Fix your code instead of ripping apart the community. And if its fixed already, screw those data centers.

Good grief it wasn't 'unclear' They said from the start there WOULD be regional servers, nothing ambiguous about it. We already have a regional server already (Ragnarok), its happened, it will happen again, again and again. The only difference compared to what we have now is there, heaven forbid, actually having servers people can play with less lag instead of getting a sub par experience for a specific subset of the world population (They were asking for this as far back as FFXI for goodness sake, it wasn't eliminated in that game either but people 'coped' with it, or did we suddenly forget about the "JP Button" that went around when FFXI first released in the US). Servers are not getting segregated, no one is forcing you to leave, no one is forcing your friends to leave, nothing more then what happened when Ragnarok was introduced. Furthermore if content finder is done well it should be possible to play with friends on other servers anyways, it just means you won't be in the same linkshell or free company anymore. And if that matters so much to you about segregation you can make another character on the split server so you can always converse with your friends. Some of us wanted this from the start, way back before FFXIV even released and it became the mess it was.

[Starlord]

I'm just glad I won't have to here "JP ORNY" again!

[Cynthis]

I can't believe this. I really can't. I don't even feel like doing my regular activities in game right now.

I'm sure the team would've known the consequences of this decision. How could they not?

We have not been playing this game for the sole hope that ARR would be a good game. When the servers were empty and the content awful we kept each other's hopes alive with the friends we've made. From around the world and from many different background we entertained each other, educated each other and made friendships with like minded people across the world.

There has to be a way to fix the lag and retain one of the key features of XIV in ARR. I just can't fathom breaking up the community like this.

Completely agree. This is a horrible design choice. Right before I read this information I was playing with one friend from Hong Kong and one from Florida. That will be a thing of the past. Living in Europe my choice now is to go to European server where people, just like they do on Ragnarok now, tend to stay in LSs with their own language, or go to an NA server where very few people will b e playing at the same time as me...or not play at all...

[Nakiami]

how can you people whine about lag and then when they fix it you still complain about something, you were never going to get the lowest latency without regional servers, if you had any common sense you would have known that.

Probably because this wasn't the way they imagined SE fixing latency?

Personally, I would rather test out the new data-centers in terms of latency, or at least see them tested out before 2.0 launches. I'm the kind of person who likes to know what he's getting into before I get into it...or before I grow an opinion. lol

[Darshu]

I had Magitek armor in mind when I was thinking about it.

Exactly. And where is that in the 2 year old game? No where to be seen. It's coming because the community asked for it. Because the game failed and they want you to feel rewarded. It's a good example of nostalgia, that does not apply to anything else I've said.

Quit the game, then.

God, such an asshole, and for what reason? Got what she wanted but isn't satisfied until she stomps on other people's frustration. I'll say it again, get the fuck off if you have nothing else to add.