A European datacenter!

[Tyrusis]

I'm so glad there's a post already on this. I cant even believe that they can even call them "EU servers". It's more like "foreign speaking servers" v_v The latency does suck balls but I'm sure they will improve it in due time.. but really it is a MUST fix.. it's not really a case of "maybe". But for now I'm still thoroughly enjoying the game so the latency isn't a concern.

[HulaHoof]

SE is way to cheap to do that. They should have servers on the NA west coast, east coast, and Europe in order to prevent latency. (If you come in here saying you have no latency, that is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE since the data needs to travel and that takes time.)

Montreal Canada is way too far from California, United States.

Even further away from Sydney, Australia.

Then again, no major company has ever regarded us as our own country (let alone continent).

[Arkulin]

If they want EU players to pay subscription, I expect top notch service from them. Lag is here, lag is noticeable, from skill activation, AOE rings etc. They must add physical servers in EU. For a Pay2Play game this is unacceptable.
Even that Grind Wars 2 (Guild Wars 2) that is Buy2Play MMORPG has datacenters in EU and USA.

[BreathlessTao]

Agreed. I don't even know why they make the distinction between NA and EU servers at all - obviously, friends would gather on the same server anyway (or at least, would try to); and it clearly makes no sense on the technical side either...

[Pandemonium]

Yes please!

/10

[Terius]

The only real issue I'm having is the AoE attacks. Whenever I see one and move out ASAP I have no idea if I'm still going to get hit lol.

[LeoGreenwood]

Have the same problem, got bashed by my party after Dzemael last boss ( and the 2nd one ) even though I tried to explain them... I 'm not doing this dungeon anymore and I'm afraid to discover the next ones.
AOE that are randomly cast can be avoided, but when you are targeted by the mob, you can't escape it.

Another thread about this :

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-everybody%29

[Namko]

I would love to see an EU datacentre, this game is already divided across regions since the NA datacentre, so that doesn't matter anymore. At the moment we just compensate by moving earlier. E.G. Demon wall, I will move into the purple floor, anticipating the change. Same thing we used to do for eruption on Ifrit during 1.0 (when you saw ifrit squat). I have a very high end PC, fibre optic 100mb and hard wired in. I am aware that the cast bar doesn't match up to the red zone animation, I can exclude that.

My ping tests have been erratic and can create an average of 200-300. I'm in London, UK.

On a side note does anyone know the IP address for Ragnarok, I tested 2 of the other NA servers.

[Tribunus]

I have around 150ms from the UK and although I havent experienced any issues (none that I notice anyway) I do agree that if we are paying a subscription we should expect the same level of service as everyone else. I really dont understand why it wasnt the case in the first place, I understand they want everyone from all over to play together but you know a little thing called time zones usually restricts that.

Unfortunately I dont think this is ever going to happen, just another snub by the video game industry to its EU customers.

[TheRac25]

its not just latency, the client only sends pos updates to the server at intervals 2-3 per second thats an additional 300-500 ms lag additional ontop of your connection, internet latency wont effect the game very much, say you have 100 or 150ms roudtrip time, divide that by two 50-75ms is tiny compared to client update lag