LOADSTONE UPDATE

[Mikaboshiff]

Hmm... North America/Europe. Is the server in America or Europe then?
I wonder if there will be a difference in latency for Oceanics between the JP or NA servers...

I believe all servers have the same latency regardless of which regional server you access the game from

" Senior Vice President Hiromichi Tanaka, “The game system itself copes with all the lag so it doesn’t matter which region the players are accessing the game from–it’s not going to affect the user’s game play experience.” Kurosawa chimed to further alleviate concerns, “Yeah, it will be fair to everyone. Lag is normally not so much the distance, it’s the number of people in an area...” --- Interview 2010, PC Gamer at E3
Lets support global servers for a global game
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...gional-Servers

[Vydos]

Hmm... North America/Europe. Is the server in America or Europe then?
I wonder if there will be a difference in latency for Oceanics between the JP or NA servers...

I honestly hope they keep that a secret. Last thing I want is people moving to servers depending on where the physical server is actually located at. I'm considering this as an attempt on S-E part to avoid splitting up the western community. Although I'm going to miss the japanese if they all leave the current non-JP servers.

[ArkhamNative]

Hmm... North America/Europe. Is the server in America or Europe then?
I wonder if there will be a difference in latency for Oceanics between the JP or NA servers...

My guess is that "NA/EU" is translation of "overseas" from the Japanese perspective. Servers designated "(EU)" or "LEGACY/EU" are physically located in Europe.... is my guess.

Edit: I'm still not sure, but it seems more likely NA and EU are in one data center. And the "(EU)" is a recommendation so EU prime times will be busier on those servers.

Not sure what place Australia should choose. East coast (Aus) currently has about the same pings to the US & Tokyo. West coast (Aus) has a nicer ping to Tokyo than the US.

[Catapult]

My guess is that "NA/EU" is translation of "overseas" from the Japanese perspective. Servers designated "(EU)" or "LEGACY/EU" are physically located in Europe.... is my guess.

Not sure what place Australia should choose. East coast (Aus) currently has about the same pings to the US & Tokyo. West coast (Aus) has a nicer ping to Tokyo than the US.

Tokyo is a rather congested city when it comes to internet traffic, so LA may still get better responses.

There is another catch... if our connections are being routed via London by virtue of Australia being part of the European service territory, it means using a European server could actually be quicker. >_>

[ArkhamNative]

Tokyo is a rather congested city when it comes to internet traffic, so LA may still get better responses.
There is another catch... if our connections are being routed via London by virtue of Australia being part of the European service territory, it means using a European server could actually be quicker. >_>

I wouldn't suggest using ping time samples (round-trip Internet latency) as the only criterion, and certainly not just one-time samples, but fwiw here's times within the past hour (times in milliseconds):

To Perth from:
　Santa Clara, USA: 254
　New York, USA: 278
　London, UK: 344
　Tokyo, Japan: 127

To Sydney from:
　Santa Clara, USA: 222
　New York, USA: 247
　London, UK: 316
　Tokyo, Japan: 241

To Auckland from:
　Santa Clara, USA: 168
　New York, USA: 197
　London, UK: 276
　Tokyo, Japan: 227

To Singapore:
　n/a

To Kuala Lumpur from:
　Santa Clara, USA.: 237
　New York, USA.: 249
　London, UK: 259
　Tokyo, Japan: 103

[Dhalmel]

Hmm... North America/Europe. Is the server in America or Europe then?
I wonder if there will be a difference in latency for Oceanics between the JP or NA servers...

Japanese servers would do better simply because it's physically closer. You would also have less server routes to go through.

The server names with the (EU) tag next to them are the ones located in Europe.
It's weird how they group them together like that.

[Hysterior]

back to Masamune ^^

[Vermilion]

;-; I think SE should let the community vote on which servers get to go where, All the current NA server names are... unfavorable.

[DubstepNinja]

Yeah so Masamune is a JP data centre.

Latency should'nt be too bad to either JP or NA (as long as it is based on the west coast)

[Rockababy]

SO MUCH INFO. This is a good thing though I've never been more excited with news from SE this year.