Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Deakka]

Currently EU players face hellish lag connecting to the JP servers. At the end of the day though, it boils down to lag and playability.

My hope is that the lag from EU> NA, NA > JP, and any permutation you can think of is less than it is today. The only exception would be JP > NA or EU servers, since they've had a natural benefit of low pings (although if the 25th talk show is any indication, they get the lag problems on things like ifrit too). If that's the case, then this is just a matter of coordinating your ls (and future grand companies) on which server to select come ARR.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Japanese players have the best parties. I had such an awesome time playing with them on FFXI

[Wynn]

That's the thing isn't it, because clearly there are those of us who also live on the other side of Japan and don't have this lag issue. The fact that it seems to work fine for some and not for others suggests the problem lies elsewhere and not the location of the server. If it was the server that's causing this unplayable lag where players R0 and D/C all the time, EVERYONE outside japan should be experiencing it since everyone is connected to the same sever.

Are you really gonna sit there and play the "blame the player" card when Yoshi and company have already admitted it is a problem on their end?

[Sephrick]

Are you really gonna sit there and play the "blame the player" card when Yoshi and company have already admitted it is a problem on their end?

Denial is a hell of a drug.

[LunaticVoice]

This is incredibly upsetting. The spirit behind Final Fantasy Online is uniting players all over the world to participate in cross-cultural gaming experiences. I've met awesome online companions from all over the world through FFXI and FFXIV and this course of action is basically spitting on those experiences. Link the regional data centers so that they are still worldwide! I don't want to have to choose between a low-lag experience and one of the best things about the online Final Fantasy titles.

[Rubicon]

I don't get the whining. So you play with an all JP linkshell or something? Stay with that group and joing a JP server. Linkshell is mixed? Make a group decision. Or do you just like saying "kawaii" things in chat and love that you can pretend to be Japanese?

[Rubicon]

All of this stuff is very true, but no one is hitting the endgame portion of this... latency is a negative in pvp and pve endgame, if you dont go to NA server, and your NA, your gimp to your ls, simple fact, you are. If i go to a JP server (which i would prefer) i would have lag they would not, and I would never do well in pvp, and cause wipes in pve.

I'm guessing the people who play FFXIV and want to keep their rainbow of friends from around the world don't care about PvP.

[Renen]

I'm guessing the people who play FFXIV and want to keep their rainbow of friends from around the world don't care about PvP.

Something like that

[Tinks]

I'm guessing the people who play FFXIV and want to keep their rainbow of friends from around the world don't care about PvP.

Not even a little bit.

[leomax]

I'm still confused or am I being dumb w.

Will each world have a JP/NA/EU data server or lets say 3 EU 3 JP 3 NA?

Obviously people will choose a server in their region, there for splitting people up.

I'm obviously going to be sad panda because I have made some true NA friends over the years but in the long run it would probably be the best for me, I have had enough of playing through the night end-game lol.