Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Munba]

I have NA friends and EU friends. There is no way I could possibly ever convince them to play on the same server as mine if it ends up being a JP world. Not only that but I would expect non JP population to fall drastically, meaning you are effectively segregating communities that have already been together for 2 years now.

The real problem is just this. If you have different friends among different regions it'll be almost impossibile to play with all of them.

I loved to find every kind of different region-people around.. instead now i'll find 98% people of that specific region. Sorry but FF11 model is still the best choise on this argument, for me.

[prymortal]

Greetings,

I know there has been some confusion about multiple data centers and world discussion that took place in the 25th Anniversary event, so Yoshida addressed it directly in the Letter from the Producer LIVE part III.



Hopefully this will clear up any questions you may have.

hmm what about oceanic countries? were closer to japan but net wise will we need to connect to na or eu?? because the way the data travels?

Eaither way i can see ifrit latency probliems screwing us again 2.0

[Belisaire]

Im sorry even if cross-server content finder works perfectly, people will start becoming distant if they are not in one server because u wont be talking to them alot.

I'm guessing with this news, cross-server content is pretty much scrapped. Figured Yoshida would've mentioned it.

[Zezlar]

This is information I find really irritating because even though I don't actively participate with Japanese players, I rely on them for buying my wares. NA people are so damn stingy with what they buy.

[Mijin]

One of the worst ever decisions, if you already reduce ARR animation locks and lags issue by massive amount, whats the use of this? Im sorry even if cross-server content finder works perfectly, people will start becoming distant if they are not in one server because u wont be talking to them alot.

I am sure i will make new friends, but it will sucks to be losing the old one because of this region bullshit.

Here i will say it again, bullshit.

Go lite some romance candles, listen to some Justin Biber, and calm down. It's not like you have friends anyway so stop kidding around.

This is really great and I'm very happy about it. Not only will server latency be greatly reduced but we wont be forced into the game with people who don't speak our language. Very smart move, it's not like every other MMO doesn't do this anyway.

I also don't think I've sufficiently rubbed in the fact that I told everyone this was coming, but people kept telling me I was wrong and attacking me personally with stories of magical data centers and unicorns.

[Colino]

I don't understand why they need to do this when they've had a regionless structure for FFXI for 10 years now.

Shit I barely played that game but I still loved the fact that you can play with everyone and anybody from all over the world, just like we've been doing for the past 2 years.

I live in the EU but move back and forth quite a bit, I have a lot of friends who live here but just as many that live in NA regions. The amazing and wonderful thing is that I can play with ALL of them, whenever I like!

Now my community is effectively being forced to break up and I'm forced to choose a side even though one of the main reasons I play this game is precisely because I never had to choose a side.

This is a load of crap.

[Jennestia]

So where are all players with their crazy theory about "datacenters" being all connected together to Tokyo servers etc. Can't wait now for people who have no background in networks achitecture to come to this thread and tell what SE should do instead

Stay mad. I will enjoy my 30ms latency.

Stop being dense --- Data Centers are rally points however SE as usual were using a term to describe something different they had in mind. So you're happy you'll play with only people in your area, but you better not be complaining when you don't have "30 ms latency" even on a local connection.

[Nero]

You guys are overreacting..

Yoshi was connected to a JP-Server when he played at Gamescom and he was surprised how smooth it was running with almost no lag. I will choose whatever Server are the people on i play with currently.. so most likely NA. As no i dont really have probs with i.e. Ifrit cracks, even if im EU.

But anyways.. i prefer playing with friends, so idc much if i have 0.1 secs lag compared to everyone else <.<.

[Mijin]

hmm what about oceanic countries? were closer to japan but net wise will we need to connect to na or eu?? because the way the data travels?

Eaither way i can see ifrit latency probliems screwing us again 2.0

It would be slightly faster for you to connect to Japan, but in lieu of the fact that you'll most likely want to play on an English server it would be better for you to connect to the NA west coast. There wont be much more latency anyway. See: http://ansonalex.com/wp-content/uplo...-cable-map.jpg

[Ruisu]

So when one of my LSs decides to go to an NA server and the other wants to go to a EU server, I just have to willingly cut the amount of friends I have in half?

I play at all sorts of different hours of the day and speak several languages, because of both these things the non-regional system is absolutely perfect for me because I get to play with lots of different people and be active in several LSs.

What SE is doing will make this effectively impossible and it WILL destroy some communities.

No, you're right. There's not much that I can say about that. They'll make the gameplay experience better, but it will damage the community. As I said though, the community wanted better servers, they kinda got it. It's pretty shitty but there's not a whole lot that can be done at this point.