Data Centers/World Locations Info from the LIVE Letter

[Jeronlmo]

Hes broken many promises, but for regional servers, we didnt buy this game to play on regional servers, its a world server brand, has been for 12yrs+ now, hes basically taken our money all this time to change the core reason so many people play FF games to start with, it should have been said before they started charging though I can easily see why they waited, if they did say it then, the game would have died, now people have the attitude "maby 2.0 will be worth it".

They said within days of 2.0 being released that items/quest/gil/everything would be carried over because of large concern, and none would lose anything, hes considering the fact that everything being lowered to 1/10 (10%) is keeping it the same(but he did lie about it), maby over a long period of time the player based economy will work itself out, generally the cheaper the item the faster it will. Fact is, he changed it.

[Wynn]

Hes broken many promises, but for regional servers, we didnt buy this game to play on regional servers, its a world server brand, has been for 12yrs+ now, hes basically taken our money all this time to change the core reason so many people play FF games to start with, it should have been said before they started charging though I can easily see why they waited, if they did say it then, the game would have died, now people have the attitude "maby 2.0 will be worth it".

They said within days of 2.0 being released that items/quest/gil/everything would be carried over because of large concern, and none would lose anything, hes considering the fact that everything being lowered to 1/10 (10%) is keeping it the same(but he did lie about it), maby over a long period of time the player based economy will work itself out, generally the cheaper the item the faster it will. Fact is, he changed it.

What promises? Can you specify?

I don't know about anyone else, but the only reason I bought this game is because I wanted to play another Final Fantasy MMO. No other reason.

Plus, we knew about the regional servers before we started paying. Maybe you didn't know because you missed it or whatever, but that's not his fault.

As far as the gil issue goes. Everything is still getting transferred over. It is just being redenominated.

I realize some people are having a hard time grasping the concept so I understand why you might think you are losing out. The fact is you aren't.

That's a different thread from this one so I won't go into it further. There are several threads you can read through if you are really interested in understanding what is actually going to happen. Or you could ignore those and continue listening to knee-jerk reactions of players that don't understand basic math.

[Faiyez]

Hes broken many promises, but for regional servers, we didnt buy this game to play on regional servers, its a world server brand, has been for 12yrs+ now, hes basically taken our money

Enough of that already. Nobody's forcing you to pay for this game.

Have you not listened to me at all? Appeals to tradition are invalid arguments.

[Zumi]

Hes broken many promises, but for regional servers, we didnt buy this game to play on regional servers, its a world server brand, has been for 12yrs+ now, hes basically taken our money all this time to change the core reason so many people play FF games to start with, it should have been said before they started charging though I can easily see why they waited, if they did say it then, the game would have died, now people have the attitude "maby 2.0 will be worth it".

They said within days of 2.0 being released that items/quest/gil/everything would be carried over because of large concern, and none would lose anything, hes considering the fact that everything being lowered to 1/10 (10%) is keeping it the same(but he did lie about it), maby over a long period of time the player based economy will work itself out, generally the cheaper the item the faster it will. Fact is, he changed it.

You already got your money's worth. You agreed to pay money in exchange to play FFXIV, which you did. If you don't like the way FFXIV is going just unsub and quit paying them money. Simple as that. I am really sick of all these people whining. Don't like it just quit.

It's only your opinion that you don't like regional servers. I think regional servers will be great and they are headed in a good direction.

[Jeronlmo]

I fully understand that if everything is taken to 10% of the original value, its basically the same thing, but the player market does not follow those rules, given over time it will, but not right away, reguardless, its changed.

2yrs ago, there was not a single person that could have known about regional servers, 2.0 wasnt even an idea until After launch. I cannot help you apparently didnt start playing until later.

Regional servers should have been release far sooner, and the gil information should have been given much closer to shutdown, its completely screwed the economy on every server, plus with atomos going on and the 1mil+/hr people can make off it it, its even worse.

[Wynn]

I fully understand that if everything is taken to 10% of the original value, its basically the same thing, but the player market does not follow those rules, given over time it will, but not right away, reguardless, its changed.

2yrs ago, there was not a single person that could have known about regional servers, 2.0 wasnt even an idea until After launch. I cannot help you apparently didnt start playing until later.

Regional servers should have been release far sooner, and the gil information should have been given much closer to shutdown, its completely screwed the economy on every server, plus with atamos going on and the 1mil+/hr people can make off it it, its even worse.

Two years ago we weren't paying a monthly subscription. The announcement about regional servers came after Yoshi came on board and told us about their plans for 2.0 and that was definitely before we started paying the monthly sub.

In any case, SE didn't sell us global servers. They sold us an MMO.

Nobody at SE promised you we wouldn't have regional server. No promise was broken.

I appreciate you are unhappy with the servers issue and I won't say you don't have a right to that opinion. But you are certainly wrong if you continue to propagate the idea Yoshi lied to us when he clearly did no such thing.

[ZakarnRosewood]

I read this as people saying they arent able to make new friends. ever have to move to another school, city, or country? if you are really that close of friends and want to stay together then i'm sure you are intelligent enough to talk it out and decide on a server to move your linkshell to. i do sympathize with the idea of a global server but i really dont think they are taking that away from anyone. no one is restricted to a local(ish) server. i for one would much prefer a local region server to play on and not for lag reasons or population reasons, i'm one of those guys who logs on later at night cause i have kids and cant get on during "peak times", so if thats the case i now have an option to find a reigon where my play time is a peak time if i so choose.

I really hope that SE is smart enough not to scrap the regional server idea so long as they dont charge for server transfers.

[Alhanelem]

Why should i join a Server that is connected to an NA Datacenter? It might be better then a JP Datacenter but i will still have a higher delay. I really liked international Server since they released FFXI but i prefer a Server where I dont have an disadvantage.

Nobody said you "should." I said you "Can." It all depends on what's important to you. If minimizing latency is what's most important to you, then pick a server in your region. If playing with people in other regions/immersing in culture/whatever social reason is what matters more to you, then pick a server somewhere else. (It's worth noting that EU players will likely still ping better to the NA servers than to the JP ones).

In short, to answer your question more directly: You shouldn't, unless you'd rather play with NA players than people in your own region. There will be some people who will want to do this, others will not want to. I have a few friends in England and Germany who may want to play the game. In their case, they have the ability to join the server I'm on. There will be a minor ping difference, but we will be able to play together.

[Leoheart]

This thread's still live and kicking?

[Jeronlmo]

Your just... idiots, not 1 single person has said we do not want regional servers, we just want world servers added to the list, why is this hard to fkn get?

If I dont like it quit? You people have been non-stop bitching on these forums for 2yrs getting crap nerfed to living hell because the game was to hard, I think your the people who should quit.

"Have you not listened to me at all? Appeals to tradition are invalid arguments." Obviously your idea that if it is tradition you should just scrap it is better. Getting rid of world server 100% is like taking out moogle/chocobos, just no. Rename the game and prob solved.

Actually, you know what, your highest... anything is lvl30, anything you say is invalid, play the game, then have an opinion on how things should go.