A European datacenter!

[Tam3n]

It's playable when there's not much lag, but still even in the best situation you need to be out of the AoE circle at least 1 second before the actual attack...
Now that the number of players has exceeded the exceptions it would be nice to have the EU servers on a datacenter in EU. One can always wish

[Esyld_Ryder]

Badly need EU servers, HM Titan would be so much fkin easier if you had the correct amount of time to dodge.

[indira]

you can ping around the equator in 200-300 miliseconds, location is not the full problem.

its the routes between the two points causing the lag more routes slower connection every server that data has to go though will slow you down.

[Diadumenos]

If it helps the EU FFXIV community, ill +1 this

[Misaky]

Even the last 2~3 mmorpgs i played, which were f2p, they had european servers...

I have fiber connection, and i really cant understand how can this game have lag..
Raiderz - f2p game, got 0 lag
Dota 2 - f2p game, i can even play it in NA servers without any lag.

Please give us a Europen DataCentre, and please don't wait till most of the European players leave duo to being impossible to dodge the end game bosses (duo to lag)..

[Silverwalk]

There was massive thread in the beta forums about the lag.

Yoshi made a post and in it he stated that your characters position is sent to the server 3 times a second.

So add that to your latency to figure out how much time you need to be out of the aoe to avoid getting hit.

[Rillifane]

my bet is most EU players will unsubscribe in about 2 months if no EU datacenter news are out by then

i know i will

U're underestimating the ammount of EU players playing.

if they stop subscribing (and they will, right now they think the lag is because servers are full), they'll lose more money.

And more datacenters in europe means less datacenters in NA, so they would save some money there

I've already paid for 180 days and won't be unsubbing, i experience none of these lag issues that other "EU" players keep talking about and i just have basic ADSL, the only "aoes" i get hit by when out of the circle are the same ones that east coast players get hit with too due to the server position checks that are hard coded in to the game, which would result in me still getting hit by them even if i was on an "EU" datacentre in Europe.

Don't forget some ISP's are treating FFXIV like it's a peer-2-peer game and are throttling peoples speeds when sending data back and forth to the servers, i think there's even a dev post about it.

[Laifon]

Bumping for the sake of EU players.

[Zeons]

This would be awesome. When I move out of an aoe I am still unsure if I will be damaged or not. This is ruining the flow of the combat and making it a lot less enjoyable. Just wait for end game content where EU players won't be able to progress.

[Alemana]

If F2P models like League of Legends and DOTA can put servers basically everywhere in the world, I dont see how a subscription based game with a 100% reliable revenue cannot match this.

Then again, most companies think that NA and EU encompass the entire world and give the giant middle finger to the rest.