Data Centers? (Yes or No Poll)

[Alhanelem]

The minimal lag I've experienced has hardly prevented me

The current lag in the game isnt caused by latency and effects everyone. If you don't have it, you have some kind of magical power.

The three points you made. Well the first one is a personal preference of yours.

It's not a personal preference. It's a benefit. I don't know anyone that would consider ease of communication, by itself, a detriment.

I've already said I personally prefer to see and talk with people from different cultures in different languages.

You are not prevented from doing this. You can:

-stay on your current server, which will largely contain the same mix people as it did when the 1.0 servers shut down
-Move to a server that's not in your region and be immersed in other cultures (though in my not-so-humble opinion, there are lots of better ways of doing this, like visiting that country or using any means other than a video game where you don't ever see the people's faces, the arts/sights/sounds of the country, or most other parts of what I would call culture)
-create characters on the other servers.

All three of these things will result in you having all kinds of people not of your own culture to interact with.

you'll have to choose between playing on what feels like a dead server,

Unless this re-launch fails miserably, the server you play on isn't going to be "dead" on off peak hours. There's a difference between "less busy" and "dead."

And the third, easier to find groups yeah, most likely. If you play during primetime.

Even if you don't play during primetime. Currently, I can't find groups outside of my primetime anyway, unless I happen upon a lucky english shout or am really lucky and find a JP that uses the auto translate and allows NA to play with them. When all of the players are from the same region, your odds are still better of finding a group than they are now on the current servers. I won't say all the time, because sometimes it does work, but all too often I want to join the JP/german/french party but they won't take me. It's actually not as bad as it was in FFXI, but it's still a problem.

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The current lag in the game isnt caused by latency and effects everyone. If you don't have it, you have some kind of magical power.

It's not a personal preference. It's a benefit. I don't know anyone that would consider ease of communication, by itself, a detriment.

It is a personal preference.. I don't (and YOU don't believe it or not) need the entire population to speak the same language to progress effectively and enjoyably.. (see XI.. hell see RL..see obvious fact?)

Again, I never said I didn't have lag.. But I appreciate you demonstrating that you clearly aren't reading.. so whatever..