Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Jeronlmo]

I guess ill respond accordingly.

No u.

[Alhanelem]

So basically... you can go to a regional server, and none of this has anything to do with you and you can leave the success/fail "global servers" to us who enjoy it.

If there are "Global" servers and "JP" servers, and theres a decent population of JP's on the "Global" server, than its fairly safe to assume they chose it because of the fact its "global", so if there are 0 JP's on the Global servers, then i guess your right.

Well, I guess some people enjoy being on empty servers. That's fine i guess!

[Wynn]

I'm not personally opposed to any server labeled as a global server in addition to the regional servers. It wouldn't impact me at all.

But...

And don't tell me that staying on our current server is equivalent because it sure as hell isn't.

Can you please explain why it isn't? I'm having a hard time understanding how it isn't exactly the same.

Our servers right now are global. You want global. Stay where you are. It makes sense to me.

[Alhanelem]

I really don't predict any kind of mass exodus from the current servers because of established friendships. Over a very long period of time, the pop distribution could change, but I really think the current servers will always be, to a certain extent, "global."

[Synfrag]

ping is a part of latency. it's not exclusively used to refer to the console command: 'My ping is 230ms.' "latency' is the combined total of your ping and all other factors delaying server response (e.g. processing on the server)

Meh it's semantics, just trying to help people not sound like 12yo on WoW.

A slow network connection has nothing to do with "ping" as ping is an action not a measure. Otherwise maybe we would call it 230ms ping, instead we call it 230ms latency.

And latency has nothing to do with ping either unless you are specifically sending a ping. It's like a Sonar ping. It is an empty network signal used only to determine connections and latency to an endpoint.

[Jeronlmo]

Depends on how they do it, if servers come back up for 2.0 and your just auto on your old server, then w/e, but they are letting everybody see a screen with a server list, and you pick, every single person on every single server is not going to come together and agree to stay, esp if the server im currently on is now changed to a JP server or something, if its labled as a global server, i doubt many would leave.

This isnt even going years down the road, current population in total is small, years later, a good amount will quit because of real life or something blabla, even if our server is pre-selected, if its labled as JP or EU, those are the only "new" players you will get for that specific prime time. New NA's will not join a labeled JP server knowing the overwhelming majority is JP and only play at 5am est.

[Jynx]

The Japanese, being the most xenophobic of the cultures most playing this game

Here this will help with those sweeping generalizations you are trying to make. (Not meant to point our how totally offensive your statement is.)

[Alhanelem]

Here this will help with those sweeping generalizations you are trying to make. (Not meant to point our how totally offensive your statement is.)

I'm not making sweeping generalizations. The Japanese people are, for the most part, somewhat wary of other cultures for many blatantly obvious reasons. They are very protective of their culture and language. That's something to respect, not be offended by. It is not meant to be offensive, and should not be taken as such. But go ahead, be purposely offended by it even though you aren't specifically part of the afformentioned culture. They have a term for people outside of their culture, "gaijin" or 外人 if you prefer. This aspect of the JP playerbase can be seen almost any day of the week by people who ask to join their groups and get the response "JP Only."

It doesn't mean that every Japanese person is like that, but it is a commonly observed trait.

[Jeronlmo]

Just like its a common trait of NA's to get into a JP party and say things like "SPEAK ENGRISH I DONT SPEAK SQUIGGLE" then wipe the party from a lack of gear/skill/thoughts in general.

[Jynx]

I'm not making sweeping generalizations.

But you are. What evidence do you have to support that a large majority of the Japanese MMO players act out your steriotype?

Aside from a handfull of people crying about JP onry nothing, for every JP onry party you had I can come with a case of a Japanese player being accepting of other cultures. Hell the "Japanese" servers will end with more than just Japanese players what about the Koreans? Again you seem to act like the only people effected by this are Japanese, North American and European players.

It's not like a crapload of other demographics play this game outside this narrow scope.

Not a single person has a shred of proof the game will rely on split second timing aside from Yoshida saying the pace of battle has been sped up for the currently slow pace we have now. Hell FFXI was more fast paced than XIV is currently, Being able to stun a quick cast spell was essential in many HNM and endgame fights, despite all that NA players still managed to Stun those doom spells.