Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Reika]

Theres those who value freinds, and then thos who value latencey. I pick friends even tho everyone is going to end up getting split up anyways, unless no one decides to move off of my server. I've been waiting for 2.0 for the improved servers, not the separation. I'll be staying on my current server to monitor the improvement. Those who want to jump ship without testing first, go right ahead.

I'm done with this.

[gahoo]

Just wait for the outcry when they name the US server "Butterfly Fairyland" while the JP one is "Excalibur".

[Rokien]

I'll just say this;

Maybe you guys should start listening to me sooner, I YELLED don't separate the community months ago. Nobody listened in fact most of you argued with me. That thread is now "locked" for whatever reason(stupid one). So, idk, I blame you guys, I tried to prevent it.

[Faiyez]

This isnt wow, its FF, FF 11 and 14 have been world servers with ls's that are from all time zones for 12yrs+, your opinion is invalid.

This is a classical example of an appeal to tradition, a common fallacy

"This is right because we've always done it this way."

[Wynn]

You must not have any true friends or your the type who has never thought about others. So if a friend from another region chooses to stay on a different server they must not have been a true friend? lol i don't even know what to say to that

Sure this change might be beneficial to ones own game-play experience but this is not a single player game, its a MMO a game built on the community that plays it so i think community is really important.

Atomos break!

Ok, let's clarify something up front. I realize people develop real friendships in online games. It happens every day.

That said, there is a huge difference between a real friend and a in-game "friend."

One is not going to abandon you no matter what because that's what friends do. The other will drop you on a dime if it benefits them because they aren't really your friend.

Shocking, I know.

Real friends interact outside of the game. Even if it's just email in the case of people who live far away from each other. I'd even go so far as to say if your entire relationship with a person is simply that you play more than one game concurrently together simply because you enjoy each other's company, you are real friends.

Guarantee you that the person described above isn't going to up and move to another server on you.

You see, my friends don't play this game. But if they did, I would play on their server. Why? Because they are my friends and I would want to play with them.

However, if all you do is play XIV with someone and there is no other interaction what so ever. News flash: You're probably not friends and there is a good chance that they would up and disappear on you if it benefited them to do so.

This is why some people are up in arms right now. Because it threatens the foundation of their entire social cosmos.

Cute dig about the friends. The fact is, it is because I have real friends that this idea that someone I've played with on the internet for a year or more might not really be my friend and dissappear tomorrow doesn't rock my reality right down to its core.

And if you really want to talk about thinking about others. This entire situation boils down to a handful of people who want to force others to play with them against their will. That's not thinking of others. That's exploiting others.

If that's the "community" you refer to, I want no part of it.

Quite frankly, it's disturbing.

[Aion]

I'll just say this;

Maybe you guys should start listening to me sooner, I YELLED don't separate the community months ago. Nobody listened in fact most of you argued with me. That thread is now "locked" for whatever reason(stupid one). So, idk, I blame you guys, I tried to prevent it.

O MIghty Rokien, share us another prophecy!!!

[Faiyez]

I wonder who Rokien would side with on this issue.

That way, we could surely know who's making sense and who isn't.

I'll just say this;

Maybe you guys should start listening to me sooner, I YELLED don't separate the community months ago. Nobody listened in fact most of you argued with me. That thread is now "locked" for whatever reason(stupid one). So, idk, I blame you guys, I tried to prevent it.

And there we have it, ladies and gentleman!

I always knew that his opinion would never be my own.

[Gentaro]

THEY WON'T LOSE FRIENDS IN OTHER REGIONS. TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN THE SAME SERVER AND YOU CAN STILL DO SO. THE SERVERS ARE NOT REGION LOCKED.

Yes, people who join an NA server won't be getting random parties from JP players. But the vast majority of them (again, easily 99%) can't communicate effectively with them anyway- autotranslate only gets you so far.

So much tardness god....

You can't have everyone join the same server, there are always people in different linkshells, one of them goes to X,the other to Y. Especially when they are from different regions

[Neku]

I'll just say this;

Maybe you guys should start listening to me sooner, I YELLED don't separate the community months ago. Nobody listened in fact most of you argued with me. That thread is now "locked" for whatever reason(stupid one). So, idk, I blame you guys, I tried to prevent it.

Please tell me more our humble savior of 2.0.

[Jeronlmo]

Its right Faiyez because its "Final Fantasy", its the way they have always done it, again, for 12yr+, ive been in the same endgame ls since FF11 which ive been in for about 8yrs, about 1 1/2yrs ago we started up an EU "division" which is about 15 members. If you want to change something that important, change the name of the damn game, its not Final Fantasy, it just isnt.

Edit: On ff11 we had NA/EU/JP division and events ran around the clock, if you logged on, there was something to do. You all want to play 3hrs/week like you do on wow, you might aswell not play at all, you hate gaming.