Yoshida-san - GLOBAL Servers and Balancing Tweaks Instead of Regional Servers

[Astora]

It doesn't matter what you label it. People know where the servers are located. You could label it Cool Kids server or Hot Party server.

I am definitely joining the Hot Party server.

[Jynx]

This is just a demand from weeaboos who want to stay with JP players who could honestly care less about them.

Because the world is just America and Japan right?

[Chardrizard]

This is just a demand from weeaboos who want to stay with JP players who could honestly care less about them.

How can anyone be so stupid.

Do i need to list how many countries are out there that are actually speaking english and are nearby Japanese timezone? Quick example, every single freaking country in South East Asia. Your head might explode if i list every single of them.

[Colino]

Because it IS as simple as that. You ask them, they say yes, or they say no, and t hat's the end of that.

Or we could not have to ask them and they could manage a system akin to the one they've been using in that other MMO they've had for TEN YEARS. I've only played XI a handful of times but if there's one thing I haven't heard complaints of it's lag.

Ideally, they'll implement a game-wide friends list like XI had.

Ideally, but they most definitely won't at launch or any time close because they would've bragged and advertised the shit out of it.

If your friends are close, they're most likely going to stick together.

You really don't get it do you? I'm convinced you're just ignoring the point I brought up earlier because you keep responding in the exact same way, you're on auto-pilot or something.

You also have the option of not moving at all, and staying on the world you're on now. In the long run though, more people will be happy for a higher quality game experience free of lag.

It would have to work in the long run regardless because the once the communities have been destroyed they'll reform anew. That doesn't make it fun or a smart decision on their part though.

you know how i know you've never raided seriously in WoW or any other MMOs?

You know how I know you haven't played other games that TRULY require reactions and strict timing such as 1 frame links in some fighting games?

No seriously, you can go all hardcore raider all you want but it's not even close to games that truly rely on reactions and timing. Or are you really one of those WoW players in denial that really thinks it's the most skillbased game ever? Because if you think so I'm just gonna leave this argument right now... lol

And please illuminate me on how much incredibly difficult high level content you've experienced at lvl 21 alchemist and 16 conjurer.

[RoninDarkchild]

I dont understand this argument going on.... the servers ARE Global.... its just the Data Centers won't be. There is a difference. I can be on whatever server I want.

[tymora]

On the side, how many other MMOs release log-in distribution data?
E.g.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/gui.../11/index.html

[Jeronlmo]

The servers are labled as NA/EU/JP, read back atleast a page or something, new players comming to the game will, 99% of the time will, pick the server based on the region they live in, most of the games on the market atm are all region locked and its what people are used to but a large amount of people only played ff11/14 because it was world-wide servers.

The fact that they allow us to pick what servers we want to be on reguardless of where they are does not make them world servers if nearly the entire population on every server is from that region. Any decent endgame or even a medium sized social would be very hard to maintain if not impossible so none would go.

[Jeronlmo]

In the end, its all about the server label. All people are asking for is a few extra JP servers with "World Server" as the label. Something as simple as a label will decide who goes to it, esp from new players. Nearly my ls's entire EU division is confused on what to do, they 100% do not want to go to a EU server, but a NA server will have a flat prime time, it will happen, it happens in all region based games and they do not want to stay up til 3-4am every day to make NA events only.

The fact that this seems to bother so many of you makes no sense, keep the dumb regional servers, but we should get what we want to, world servers are far more stable in the end and allow for prime times basically around the clock, none of this would affect you, in any way.

[Ikkenoe]

No seriously, you can go all hardcore raider all you want but it's not even close to games that truly rely on reactions and timing. Or are you really one of those WoW players in denial that really thinks it's the most skillbased game ever? Because if you think so I'm just gonna leave this argument right now... lol

this just screams "you're right, i never actually did any meaningful endgame raiding in any MMOs, WoW included/especially, but admitting as much would detract from my argument and therefore i will instead deflect and shed the spotlight"

so, yeah, probably a better idea that you leave. door's over there, captain fallacy.

[Seyra]

We managed to leave people and make new friends back to the servers merge months ago.
It will be exactly the same.
Ragnarok was labelled "Europe" and there are players from America and Japan as well.

Back then discussions were the same. The result will be the same here.

Some people care about latency, some don't, the latter will choose whatever server they fancy to. Some will go for the name of the server, some because they managed to speak with their friends and decide, some will choose latency. Many case, people are different and it's silly to think that everyone will think like you.

So let time and diversity do the trick.