Really hate the regional server idea

[rocky]

that is officially separating ppl by nation, just not spit it out.
dont tell me the crap that player can choose to stay in which server.
Squareenix already gave out the regional server, give out choice means you want ppl to choose.

why cannot just like FF11 and FF14 1.0? i think that is one of the biggest reasons i like this game, you can meet the ppl and play with the ppl all over the world.
i want to know some of the different culture, but not surround with mostly JP or NA ppl.

right now my old LS in 1.0 might split bcoz of it, since some ppl in eu some ppl in asian and few in NA. and my server is JP server, so most ppl in eu and NA cannot take the server with most population are JP.

this is really a stinky idea, honestly. Fans from FF11 and FF14 1.0 not deserve this bad idea.

[Antanias]

You can blame the 1.19 Ifrit battle for this, but in the end the option to play on any server is still there. We decide what server we play on, not SE ^^

[fuzz]

No one is forcing your LS to choose different servers. Theyre deciding that own their own. Its not SE fault they have provided more local servers for players and your LS mates have decided to utilize them... if anything it shows that your LS wasnt as closely knit as you thought they were, otherwise they would have collectively come up with a decision on which server they would migrate/stay on.

-fuzz

[tymora]

I also think the regional data center idea is stupid. It is just swapping around who is getting screwed over.

Any and all existing global shells will disintegrate when this choice is present. By global, I mean those that include people living in Asia.

-> Regardless of reason, there will be (server) preferences. If one group within the LS seeks to impose a forced restriction, then you can consider that group selfish. And there is no way an LS can enforce a restriction on server choices either.

-> My LS is NA mostly, but I speak Japanese. To go with the crowd, I'll transfer to a NA Legacy server but that doesn't mean I am going to like it. Similarly, if I make them go to a JP server, they won't like it either so I have to suck it up on this one.

-> I loved the "cultural color" that came with the forced cultural interactions. I loved getting multi-cultural alliances and parties to work. I grew up in a country where there are people of all colors, speaking all kinds of languages. In a way, the original servers were a reflection of home. On a higher idealistic level, regional servers favor xenophobia and poops on racial tolerance.

-> Furthermore, it is also forcing non-JP asians to play on JP dominant servers. Before regional servers, the English speaking population would at least be large enough to make it a non-issue, but now they will be the minority. Sure, they can choose a 300ms connection to NA/EU servers over a 150ms to JP, but do people think that will be fun when more Ifrit-like battles appear? End of the day, someone is still screwed. It is just that it is no longer the EUs.

We can now play a more lag-free game but now we face a monochromatic in-game society. To me, the game just effectively lost one of its unique attractions.

[Merc]

Guess what, your whole linkshell has the option to pick the same server :0 but I guess you want a "global" server and then people will say.."where is the global data center located? oooh it's in japan? well i'd rather go somewhere closer to my region... let's go to a NA located global server..." lol do you see how dumb that sounds? there cannot be a global server!!!

[tymora]

There will be global servers if there were all in one location, i.e. no regional data centers.
It's just somewhat laggy to some groups of people.

Guess what, your whole linkshell has the option to pick the same server

Someone is still sucking up the lagginess. No way around it.

This makes me long for the day this planet will have lag-free communications across the entire surface. Preferably within my life-time.

[Merc]

Well.. don't worry "gigabit ethernet" is on its way.

[indira]

well now we know when peak times are over gonna be that much harder to do stuff with people anyways. the population will shrink every night.

no one is forcing people to stick to there region(which means there still global) but they will so they dont get lag. they just decided to catagorize.

[DubstepNinja]

Well.. don't worry "gigabit ethernet" is on its way.

I could be totally wrong but in the end you cannot truly eliminate lag due to physics. We use a light based fibre optic communications network therefore the fastest information can travel from point A to point B is effectively the speed of light less infrastructural friction.

This makes me long for the day this planet will have lag-free communications across the entire surface

Well at least until we are able to use Quantam Entanglement to provide FTL communications.

/em batphones Kava for clarity

[Merc]

well now we know when peak times are over gonna be that much harder to do stuff with people anyways. the population will shrink every night.

no one is forcing people to stick to there region(which means there still global) but they will so they dont get lag. they just decided to catagorize.

You're forgetting about the "Duty Finder." If you are on late after the "peak" time is over you can use the "duty finder" to find people from other servers. Plus, I was on the server Ridill which was very diverse. And when everyone I knew was either sleeping or away.. a lot of JP players didn't want to {Team up?} anyways. So it did me no good.