There is certainly a case to be made for single language servers. I doubt the Japanese love the fact that hordes of us join them and expect them to speak English. For role-playing well you need a common tongue that’s essential. As for booting people, you could work that out before they joined the group surely and in some situations only a rudimentary ability to communicate would be needed. What is the advantage multilanguage servers anyway, it just seems to cause problems with no benefits?
The advantage is that there are never any quiet times on the server... the servers remain extremely active 24/7 and this is essential in a group oriented game (and FFXIV is still group oriented despite the ability to solo). The game also provides a translator which is more than sufficient to communicate adequately with players speaking other languages. In all my time playing FFXI I have actually only had positive experiences playing with Japanese, French and German speaking players so honestly, give it a chance.
As for the 'lag'... there isn't any. FFXI ran in the same way and there was no noticeable lag. The game is also designed in such a way that latency differences don't actually have much impact on gameplay since the combat system is much slower.
My only concern is that since everyone can freely choose their server this time around players are going to try and designate unofficial regional servers...
actully at release we wont be able to chose hince why the CE has right of passege
As far as I'm aware the Rite of Passage is just a certificate to authenticate your CE, it's essentially useless unless you like that kind of thing. It just an extra bit of unique stuff for the players that invest more in the game at launch.
You can choose servers as it's already built into the character creation system in the beta.
If the translator is good enough I can see how that would be fine for questing etc.
But if there was a unofficlal roleplaying English speaking server I would jump into that. I am not sure we need regional servers, but for roleplaying you need to be fluent in the same language and want to actually roleplay.
*Sigh* hence why I truly hope the servers link all three peoples... I prefer to game with the Europeans as they seem to have ... whats that called .... Class? lol however there are a small niche of us Americans that are actually decent people, and dont talk excess amounts of rubbish... that being said, I am very happy to hear of the blending of peoples ... something MMO's tend not to do these days.
I beg to differ. The only people of these 3 on the internet with "class" are the Japanese. Euro gamers can often be worse than American gamers
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As far as I'm aware the Rite of Passage is just a certificate to authenticate your CE, it's essentially useless unless you like that kind of thing. It just an extra bit of unique stuff for the players that invest more in the game at launch.
You can choose servers as it's already built into the character creation system in the beta.
If the translator is good enough I can see how that would be fine for questing etc.
But if there was a unofficlal roleplaying English speaking server I would jump into that. I am not sure we need regional servers, but for roleplaying you need to be fluent in the same language and want to actually roleplay.
I beg to differ. The only people of these 3 on the internet with "class" are the Japanese. Euro gamers can often be worse than American gamers
"Euro gamers can often be worse than American gamers"
No, there has to be someone worse than us!
Well there are! Australian (male) gamers are by far the rudest and least friendly gamers I have ever played with xD
(Keep in mind I don't mean everyone when I apply these labels, just a large amount xD)