Oceanic (Australia/NZ) players going to JP servers?Follow

I don't understand why this is happening. Is the *potentially* better ping the only reason?

From here in New Zealand, my ping to Montreal is 280-320ms, to JP is 350ms+. I guess this may differ to other Oceanic players.
square-enix.montreal.com / 184.107.107.176
jp.square-enix.com / 202.67.53.202

Reasons I don't think JP servers are a good idea for English speaking players:
1) Unless you can somhow score pings below 100ms from Aussie/NZ, it would not make much difference over all. Slightly laggy compared to slightly laggier won't change much in the gameplay. Besides, the main issue will be lag spikes, especially during peak hours. And being in JP servers we will be in their peak hour, so I am expecting huge lag spikes.

2) Members in a linkshell (or is it called Free Company in FFXIV? I didn't play 1.0) will come and go over time due to real life commitments, conflicts etc. In a JP server, it would be hard to get new members as the older ones leave or quit.

3) In my experience in FF XI, JP players generally don't like to mingle or do stuff with non-JP players, probably because of language barriers. For the preciously few in my large LS that are JP with decent English, their primary LS would always be a JP one. So if you were going to do some group activity or crafting help but your LS members are either busy or simply not interested, you would be unlikely to get a pickup party for help.

4) An important attraction of a large MMO is to be able to mingle with friends and strangers alike. In JP servers, the chances of mingling with them are low.

5) Some are worried about time zone difference to the US players for group activities. I don't think it will make a difference in a JP server. Unless you speak fluent Japanese, you are still going to be limited to your friends when you play. Besides, most players will have whole days free in the weekends to play with US players.


Feel free to disagree with me, but I'd like to know why you think a JP server might be better!

Same - always had problems in XI with low English-speaking pops for ANZ primetime - poor choice of servers (plus as my first MMO I wasn't sure what I was getting into!). An official or informal choice for "us" would be v.handy

If you get 70% oceanic/sea into a JP server, you get to have people speaking in English more than JP.

Another reason is that when we play in our Prime Time there will be so LESS NA people playing is like entirely no use to be in NA server than JP server where there higher % to get in PARTY using AUTO TRANSLATOR.

Edited, Jun 11th 2013 2:16am by shojikareza

Any Oceanics on Balmung?