Quote Originally Posted by Mikaboshiff View Post
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.