Regional Servers: Can we be a bit more specific please?

[Catapult]

down unda always gets the short end of the stick. Sad but true FFXIV isn't the only game.

AUS players of games have a hard time getting servers for them because the hosting costs are much higher there.

More specifically, the hosting costs often don't stack up against the population levels.
If you were to put one in Indonesia even, that could work at lower costs, but you would still need the population to justify it.

I echo the desire to know about actual server locations (city or state will do - I don't need an address).

There is also a big difference between LA and NYC as locations to people outside the Americas, not to mention London.

[Kinseykinz]

More specifically, the hosting costs often don't stack up against the population levels.
If you were to put one in Indonesia even, that could work at lower costs, but you would still need the population to justify it.

I echo the desire to know about actual server locations (city or state will do - I don't need an address).

There is also a big difference between LA and NYC as locations to people outside the Americas, not to mention London.

Exactly. Depending on where those servers are actually located, could be the difference between JA and NA/EU choices for people...especially West Coasters and Islanders. (I am not one of them...but they are who I typically game with due to my RL schedule)

[ARytheart]

First off, I WILL and look forward to try different servers to test data locations. I assume that we will have to start a fresh (lvl 1) character to try out a server other then the one our legacy characters are on?

I played in the later days of 1.0 with several real life friends and several more intend to join once ARR launches. What can you tell me about the steps being taken to ensure people will be able to transfer in groups to the server of their choice without being split up?

What steps are being taken to ensure there will be enough room for legacy and new players that intend to join them on legacy servers? I'd really hate to go threw the trouble of seeing 5-6 legacy people transfer to a NA server that fills up before all the new real life friends can get in.

Where are the NA/EU data centers located? Is it in Montreal?

P. to the S. Although I wasn't completely disappointed with 1.0 ( I considered some of the ideas fresh {exp earned = battle contribution} and interesting mechanics {Battle Regimen/ incapacitation) I do look forward to wrapping myself around this new vision of Erozea that you are creating. Good luck to you Yoshi-P and all the devs/designers at SE. May you reap wonderful fruit for all your hard work.

[ServerCrashed]

How many canadian ff14 players are there lol. They should have put a server in the actual states man my ping is almost same to jp and to canada almost no change. Isnt that why there is a server in EU for Eu players why hell would anyone put a server in canada lol should have atleast put in somewhere in middle of USa