LOADSTONE UPDATE

[Orophin]

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

I wouldn't exactly use a quote from the former development team on a totally different infrastructure. It was widely known that people in Europe were seeing over 300ms to the Japanese servers. This wasn't an issue so much since it's not a FPS game, but the netcode of the former game was so bad that it compounded their latency issue, especially in fights like Ifrit where the game thought you were standing in a spot when you had actually moved.

[Mikaboshiff]

I wouldn't exactly use a quote from the former development team on a totally different infrastructure. It was widely known that people in Europe were seeing over 300ms to the Japanese servers. This wasn't an issue so much since it's not a FPS game, but the netcode of the former game was so bad that it compounded their latency issue, especially in fights like Ifrit where the game thought you were standing in a spot when you had actually moved.

Sure, ill grant you that. But the same stuff still happens in ARR. You move and cast and the game still thinks your moving so it interupts. You have to move stop and then cast. There is always going to be latency issues. And deaths in ifrit don't matter too too much you can always recover
Still, id much rather see no regionals and only world servers.

[indira]

I don't want everyone segregated D: I wanna play with people from all walks of life around the world like in 11! True adventuring comes from mingling with different people not all the same.

not being forced to move but people will move just to get as lagless as possible.

[FedeMax]

For those in Oceanics area, players been using the SE regional site servers to ping and get an idea of latency. It is believe that the NA/EU server location is in Montreal but not confirm since there were news of SE opening a datacenter in Montreal. Here are the addresses that other people are using to get and idea of posible latency.

square-enix.montreal.com / 184.107.107.167
eu.square-enix.com / 209.130.141.243
jp.square-enix.com / 202.67.53.202

Maybe some of you guys can ping from your locations and post the results to help everyone else decided which server to go to.

[indira]

For those in Oceanics area, players been using the SE regional site servers to ping and get an idea of latency. It is believe that the NA/EU server location is in Montreal but not confirm since there were news of SE opening a datacenter in Montreal. Here are the addresses that other people are using to get and idea of posible latency.

square-enix.montreal.com / 184.107.107.167
eu.square-enix.com / 209.130.141.243
jp.square-enix.com / 202.67.53.202

Maybe some of you guys can ping from your locations and post the results to help everyone else decided which server to go to.

tracert -d IP ADDRESS HERE or name.com the address to to see which one has less hops or less places for the packet to travel is also helpful