Dedicated Servers?

[Momita]

Hmm small amount of players... like trying to get the 500k players of FFXI into XIV... for example?

But Why FFXI players want waste more time for getting the final content? LOL
You're right, not all wanna get the cap fast (me too) but in an MMORPG you are free to make what you want!
So if there is someone wanna make lv50 in 2 years.. He is free to do it! even with the same exp :|

[Dannythm]

But Why FFXI players want waste more time for getting the final content? LOL
You're right, not all wanna get the cap fast (me too) but in an MMORPG you are free to make what you want!
So if there is someone wanna make lv50 in 2 years.. He is free to do it! even with the same exp :|

Why offering more options is a bad thing?

[Thebard]

Hmm small amount of players... like trying to get the 500k players of FFXI into XIV... for example?

FFXI does not have 500k players.

[Thebard]

Well the OP's idea is never going to happen but it would be fun to have a server that existing characters cannot join, new characters only.

[Felis]

Well the OP's idea is never going to happen but it would be fun to have a server that existing characters cannot join, new characters only.

We get this with ARR. They are called "new servers" ^^

[Thebard]

We get this with ARR. They are called "new servers" ^^

Hmmm idk if new servers will exclude existing characters.

[moriandrio]

Hmmm idk if new servers will exclude existing characters.

They will this has been confirmed by Yoshi-P during live letter and by community reps in several threads.

[moriandrio]

Cause there is no point in opening Servertypes they would have to close after a few months again cause nobody would play anymore on them or so few ppl that it just makes no sense. You could allow ppl from a low exp server to transfer to normal, but how i allready pointed out a few times you can't let ppl from a high exp or drop server jump to normal ones.

A company want's to make money, so they don't want to offer options that will only cause problems. But this will never happen anyway so no point in discussion about this anymore.

[Abriael]

Sorry. This is a terrible idea. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Third wasn't a charm

Scattering the population between a lot of different server types only serves to fragment the community. Server division between regions and new/old players is already a terrible idea and scattering the community even further between several different server types is even worse.

Anything beyond a roleplay server is just a waste of server farm space.

This is NOT an FPS. MMORPGs are strongly based on their communities. A fragmented community is a bad community.

[Starlord]

Sorry. This is a terrible idea. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Third wasn't a charm

Scattering the population between a lot of different server types only serves to fragment the community. Server division between regions and new/old players is already a terrible idea and scattering the community even further between several different server types is even worse.

Anything beyond a roleplay server is just a waste of server farm space.

This is NOT an FPS. MMORPGs are strongly based on their communities. A fragmented community is a bad community.

It really all depends how it is implemented and How successful this game is Post-Launch ( after the honeymoon Period). I'm thinking SE thinks that this game is 99.9% going to be a success that having dedicated servers wouldn't be much of an issue. If the game is a Success, then it wouldn't really matter if they separate us by region or not.

How they implement it is another issue. If they happen to be successful then it doesn't matter how they would implement it, but if the game is lacking in certain regions then either:

A) they revert back to Japan severs ( which from what we were told is still good and alot better than 1.0)

B) They implement it in a way that You being in the Region server you reside from and still be able to play with people around the world.

Seeing how Alpha turned out so well, and itching to find out have Beta will be. I feel that How they implement it won't matter much, as long as the servers are smooth and the game is Successful I don't mind that they are Dedicated. but if the game is not so hot I would want them to make it so that the game is more populated therefore taking option B.