PS4 Region Locks And Servers

[Old Duck]

I'm "across the pond," and it dawned on me that means I'm in a different region than many of you and FDev. I sure hope ED is released for the Americas the same day is available in UK / Europe. There are some Japanese games I've been interested in for years that are not available in America, but I think that's mostly due to the work needed to redo all the Asian dialogs in English.

However, there is also the issue of servers. ESO on PS4 has separate servers for North America and Europe. ESO is a huge MMO, whereas I don't imagine ED drawing the same number of users. Does that mean one server for us all, or will they need a different server for the US because of latency? Anyone know how this is handled on the PC / Xbox?

 

[CrunchyBaton955]

XBox and PC are handled similary, but on different servers and there are different servers for regions, US/EU/AUS. The simple answer is that people are assigned based on their location. When they wing up, they get moved to the server of their wingmates. There's been a lot of work done to improve that over the past few months. There's definitely a noticeable difference where US and AUS players can actually get in the same instance on XBox, so I wouldn't be worried about it. It's all pretty fluid and automatic behind the scenes.

 

[DustyArne]

Ninja'd

 

[Lngjohnsilver1]

Hey dude I'm in Australasia so....I will be on and off at all times of god knows when. Theoretically I see the sun before any other country in the world, but...It don't mean if y'all are asleep and don't open until I have gone to bed so....

I will probably, ironically, be the last to know...

 

[Old Duck]

XBox and PC are handled similary, but on different servers and there are different servers for regions, US/EU/AUS. The simple answer is that people are assigned based on their location. When they wing up, they get moved to the server of their wingmates. There's been a lot of work done to improve that over the past few months. There's definitely a noticeable difference where US and AUS players can actually get in the same instance on XBox, so I wouldn't be worried about it. It's all pretty fluid and automatic behind the scenes.

Is it safe to assume the launch will be simultaneous in US/EU/AUS?

 

[Lngjohnsilver1]

FAQ says it will be launched on PSN - so I am assuming a simultaneous global launch - but that might be wishful thinking on my part. Was XBOX simultaneous launch?

 

[CrunchyBaton955]

Yeah, all of the updates in the past year (and going forward) are simultaneous between Xbox and PC. In fact on this last one, Xbox was up and running before PC was

 

[JonTheGreat]

I was wondering about this too. Have a lot of online friends from across the pond. Good to know there shouldn't be any issues linking up.