Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[tymora]

I guess nows a time to go over with your LS's where everyones gonna try to be connected to. i have a NA/EU ls and a JP ls. hmmm

I live in NA, currently in an EU LS and love doing JP PUGs (yes I do speak the language). Where in the world does that put me?

[Faiyez]

Your friends have friends, that also have friends who also have friends, it isn't Rocket surgery.

"Rocket surgery", huh?

Well, surely it isn't.

[Dragonheart]

I have nothing against static encounters because even dynamic encounters have a sense of "same ole same ole" about them eventually.

Then i feel sad for you, we are going to have a global standard (finally) ,
plus the game is going to be a bit more action oriented.

But you can still play XI if you want a dead slow game designed for 80yo + eh

[Elexia]

I live in NA, currently in an EU LS and love doing JP PUGs (yes I do speak the language). Where in the world does that put me?

Puts you in the "This is 2013, regional servers are the thing, you should be playing on an NA server with NA players only" or something.

Then i feel sad for you, we are going to have a global standard (finally) ,
plus the game is going to be a bit more action oriented.

But you can still play XI if you want a dead slow game designed for 80yo + eh

You feel sad because every MMO encounter ends up being the same deal eventually?

[Reika]

I live in NA, currently in an EU LS and love doing JP PUGs (yes I do speak the language). Where in the world does that put me?

You have to decide what is more important to you.

[tymora]

You have to decide what is more important to you.

Which completely and utterly sucks.

[Jeronlmo]

Its almost like they are trying to kill this game, but honestly I kinda hope it does, they destroy ff11 to make this game, and it was crap at release, but we stayed, they promise us legacy stuff for sticking around, then change their mind, they are obv. selling out like every other game has done and casual $ > all $ because theres more gimps in the world than not.
None of the original FF team is even around anymore, anything after ff11 just doesnt feel like ff anymore and square deserves to tank after giving the entire "actual" FF fan base thats been around for so many years the middle finger to try and grab a few wow subs.
Does anyone actually expect them the succeed with pvp? If they think making a pve community happy they have something comming, most of the pvp community in the world doesnt give second chances, you get it right, or your done, SE has no experience in pvp at all unless you think you can count ballista?

[Dragonheart]

You feel sad because every MMO encounter ends up being the same deal eventually?

Only Go.. ehm Yoshi-P knows how interesting will be the encounters in the future.

But speeding all the things up (better interface, better reaction time, no lag, no action lock)
are already a gooood starting point.

[tymora]

To the devs, at the very least and though I doubt we'll see any reasonably distributed servers, put a player distribution graph beside each world's name so we have more information to decide what works out best.

E.g.
Gungnir: 90% NA, 8% EU, 2% JP
Excalibur: 33% NA, 33% EU, 33% JP

[Xmbei]

Guys, I know that having a server structure like this could be a huge inconvenience for you and your friends who play on different regions. But please realize that with the way things are being set it up, this is not an insurmountable problem.

Tell your friends to join the same server.

To add on to this, and if they don't want to join a server you offer just join the server they do if it bothers you that much!