Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Enyce]

Presumably they're very, very happy, since they'll get their 'JP Only' servers they complained loudly about losing in '04 when the NA version of XI was released.

Where did you get this data from?
Although not the greatest of translations (Google) I browsed around on the JP forums, and it looks like this is a "Hot Topic" as well. From what I can make out, looks like many don't agree with the regional servers like many of the people on the "english" forums. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...81%84%E3%81%A6

[Xatsh]

A fragment of the JP community did want JP only servers. But the demands of the few does not meant he demands of all.

Have global and regional everyone happy simple as that... No global server simply will not work in a series that is known for being a global community in their mmos..

[Anonymoose]

My real issue with this is just the options for interaction based on time. Global servers allow for different peaks of activity - NA primetime, JP primetime, EU primetime... all rotating across the day.

Regional data centers that segregate the community lead to basically selecting whatever server shares a primetime with your free time, which does absolutely f##k all for the goal of reducing personal lag unless you structure your free time gaming allowance on your regional choice, which is much less freedom than I desire.

So just to get this straight, Square Enix's defense of this is "No, no. You won't have to live on a server that's only populated during your primetime. You'll be able to live on a server that's only populated during another region's primetime instead!"

[Wyll_JamBacchi]

Regional server are okey, i just hope they put up servers which are marked as "international" to encourage people, who wants to meet people from diffrent regions.
(would also work for people with an international LS)

Maybe even with an "unknown" random data center.




My native language is not english, so if you find any mistakes you may keep them.

[ZakarnRosewood]

Cant believe people are still crying over this. This ADDITION of extra local servers on top of current global servers will really show all of us who is interested in global servers. those of you calling for global, stay global. its that simple. if people leave, then i guess they are not of the same opinion as you. on top of that no one has played ARR yet so you are all judging this on current gameplay or past experiences. BEFORE we all panic, lets at least get into beta, please... There wont be the fear of the director not listening like the previous one, Yoshi-P has already demonstrated that he listens. concern has been expressed, it has been noted, now move along people.

[Delsus]

Not had posing priveliges back for long and I haven't put given my thoughts on this, so here's my 2 gil:

This is the worse idea SE has come up with, there is a good chance a NA server will be dead outside NA primetime and same with EU servers, partly because there are multiples. I played DCUO on a NA server for a bit before the mega servers came in, and it was dead, I saw about 10 people in a week on an apparently more populated server. So there is a good chance for some people to stay with friends we will need to stay awake until 4-5am to do anything, not just LS events.

The only time we wouldn't is if we segregate and move to our region's servers, this is what I can see happening, SE will not segregate us, we will segregate ourselves. Lets say 80% of the EU population (I use this because I am in UK) move to EU servers, and the other 20% are scattered on NA servers, depending on the amount of servers each region gets that could let's say there are going to be 5 NA servers, that could make (with these numbers pulled out of my ass) 4% of EU population on each NA server this is a very small amount of people that could very well struggle to find people to play with at their primetime, and would make them move to an EU server just to get things done and bam we are segregated based on region.

Before I get flamed too much I do plan to stay with my LS and see how things go, but I may well be forced to move server if I cannot get too much done.

Then there is the friends I have waiting on PS3 release who all plan to join the same server as me, this is a mix of RL friends who live in the UK, and some friends I met on FFXI living in the US, and despite all having stopped playing we still talk, so what am I supposed to do about that? Force RL friends to possibly play on a server that could be dead when they want to play, or do the same for my US friends? All this on top of my international LS that I do not want to leave.

[Xatsh]

Cant believe people are still crying over this. This ADDITION of extra local servers on top of current global servers will really show all of us who is interested in global servers. those of you calling for global, stay global. its that simple. if people leave, then i guess they are not of the same opinion as you. on top of that no one has played ARR yet so you are all judging this on current gameplay or past experiences. BEFORE we all panic, lets at least get into beta, please... There wont be the fear of the director not listening like the previous one, Yoshi-P has already demonstrated that he listens. concern has been expressed, it has been noted, now move along people.

If SE is just adding Additional server for regional, then trust me very very few people have an issue. The issue is from all the info from the devs and live letter they have scraped that model and added one where all servers are regional but unlocked. Which will have almost the same impact as region locking in terms of segregation.

Have a few server market global will solve this whole issue. NO one want them to scrap regional server, we just want some that are designated global server not regional specific.

Example: Durandal (International).

Not Durandal (NA)...but everyone can join if they want, this NA label will cause 90% of the population to be NA making 24/hr gameplay near impossible without queing up for content finder and it will rip apart multi national linkshells, which there are a good number of.

[Xaimera]

another thing im hoping is that obviously when we start ARR we wont have to chose which server we want before logging in and we can just come back to our old servers, because then we might not lose too many JP or EU players. But that's just me being hopeful. I need to learn with SE sometimes that doesn't always work (~_~)

[ZakarnRosewood]

It sounds like what they are doing is just labeling servers. currently where are the "global" servers located? Japan. they will most likely condense the japan servers then call them Durandal (japan) with the same people and everything as it is now. why does it have to be labeled "global" to be a global server? arent they all in effect global since they are making it easier to change servers and adding extra servers in other regions? it just seems like people are getting upset about semantics.

[Breladine]

but I may well be forced to move server if I cannot get too much done.

Who says you'll even have the opportunity to move again after-the-fact?

I've yet to see official information stating we will have more than one opportunity to choose a server.. granted I think it would be absurd for them to only give one opportunity, considering we may not know if one datacenter or another is going to be better for us (some people may be partially in betweeen two centers for example), but still as of yet I haven't seen anything official on it unless I've missed it.