Do you think regional servers will help?

[Huginn]

Uh.

Yeah, going from 250-300 ms ping to sub 80 is noticeable. People literally complain about the lag all the time.

And you can still pick whatever server you want, regardless of the region you're in.

Christ these topics are like f**kin' cockroaches.

If your ping is near 300, the problem is not server location

[Randelmire]

If your ping is near 300, the problem is not server location

Not in a MMO anyway.

[Huginn]

I have been hit by cracks that i have been off of for more than a full second, moving the servers isnt going to fix issues such as this.

and as far as thinking that it will not split up english speakers... North America is not very close to Europe, and neither are very close to Australia.

The total increase in latency from california to japan is 100ms. if you think 100ms in this kind of game is life or death, maybe you should just make sure you arent playing on a TV with upconvert on.

[Xatsh]

moving server will maby fix 30-50% of the current lag issues. The rest of them have nothing to do with physical locations.

The inventory issues, ifrit, and menu problems have more to do with game design and server structure then distance lag.

So will it improve it, yea slightly but if they do not fix the servers and stuff then the answer no.

[KaplanHomahru]

I think they will help marginally, but the real changes we'll see will be from the complete rebuild of the game.

[Alhanelem]

I wasn't using the right words, but that's pretty much what I was trying to describe...

Well you should understand then why that's a bad idea for MMOs. In a peer-to-peer console game, the demand for precision might not be high, but in an MMO the potential impact of an error from ping compensation is much greater.

I have been hit by cracks that i have been off of for more than a full second, moving the servers isnt going to fix issues such as this.

The issue is both a combination of server processing, too much need of the server to approve client actions, and ping. All of these things can be reduced. And reducing all of them will help. You can argue that ping is the smaller of these factors, but there's no reason that any factor that can be reduced shouldn't be.

Beyond that, if you aren't bothered by the higher ping, you're more than welcome to play on a server outside your region- Especially for europe servers, where you probably wont' have a problem communicating with most people.

[Rogue]

this topic really need another thread?, seriously.

I think it will help and SE's technicians obviously think it will too..

you realise the JP's are probably throwing a party and you know how biased they are to pleasing the jp community. on top of that only about 1/3 at best of the english speaking community doesnt want regional servers.

so you people should just accept it and stop whining, or just quit playing.

[Wolfie]

It actually doesn't matter what our polls and wants are. The decision has been made and the data centers have been acquired. They are not giving us a choice.

[Randelmire]

so you people should just accept it and stop whining, or just quit playing.

It's not a matter of accepting it or not. What we're asking is will it make a real change?

IMO, yes it will help. But still, I would have liked to see how the new clients works with servers from Japan before saying if it is required or not.

[Antipika]

It's not a matter of accepting it or not. What we're asking is will it make a real change?

IMO, yes it will help. But still, I would have liked to see how the new clients works with servers from Japan before saying if it is required or not.

SE determined it was required, isn't that enough? Anyway nothing prevents you at release timing to create a character on JP/NA/EU Worlds and compare.