Japanese version of TESO postponed for 5 months

JapanesePlayer · January 2016

im feeling sad about it...

DMM site says game will launch 23.06.2016

Elsonso · January 2016

I wonder if this date was picked so that they can pick up the base game changes related to classes, Veteran Ranks, etc.

tinythinker · January 2016

Better to have it ready than a terrible launch, I suppose. I just wish people on a particular plartform (PC, Playstation, XBox) didn't have to reinstall and re-roll to play on a different server.

IcyDeadPeople · January 2016

Does this mean a separate server in Japan?

Or localized subtitles/audio for playing on NA server?

Dominoid · January 2016

When was it suppose to be January? Anything with a date always said June.

http://massivelyop.com/2015/12/28/the-elder-scrolls-online-will-launch-in-japan-on-june-23rd-2016/

Elsonso · January 2016

Dominoid wrote: »

When was it suppose to be January? Anything with a date always said June.

http://massivelyop.com/2015/12/28/the-elder-scrolls-online-will-launch-in-japan-on-june-23rd-2016/

There was early talk that it would be in "Spring 2016" which could be interpreted as March or April and not June. All the dates that I have ever seen are June, but who knows what people might think and what may have happened to the date before they announced it.

JapanesePlayer · January 2016

sorry, looks like i was ttricked by other game news portal, they said January

JD2013 · January 2016

By then the Dark Brotherhood will be in, Veteran Ranks will be out etc so I would say June ie a good time for it.

Arkadius · January 2016

IcyDeadPeople wrote: »

Does this mean a separate server in Japan?

Or localized subtitles/audio for playing on NA server?

The Japanese server will be run by a third party company. It looks like they're localizing the game but will also restrict access to Japan (maybe with some exceptions).

Sausage · January 2016

Hopefully they come to EU servers, at least give an option to do so if they want. Japan is good country, I'd imagine they have very good internet connections. Maybe they should go to Africa, or near European Countries just to boost EU servers.

Btw, didnt The Secret World had global server, players from all around the world played it just fine. Speaking of Funcom, Funcom revealed their next game its Conan Exiles, its H1Z1 clone I think. I was gonna play H1Z1 on PS4 but Im giving it a chance before it.

ub17_ESO · March 2016

Sausage wrote: »

Hopefully they come to EU servers, at least give an option to do so if they want. Japan is good country, I'd imagine they have very good internet connections. Maybe they should go to Africa, or near European Countries just to boost EU servers.

Btw, didnt The Secret World had global server, players from all around the world played it just fine. Speaking of Funcom, Funcom revealed their next game its Conan Exiles, its H1Z1 clone I think. I was gonna play H1Z1 on PS4 but Im giving it a chance before it.

We would have far worse ping coming to EU servers. Not in the interest of a new market or even an existing one.

Sausage · March 2016

ub17_ESO wrote: »

Sausage wrote: »

Hopefully they come to EU servers, at least give an option to do so if they want. Japan is good country, I'd imagine they have very good internet connections. Maybe they should go to Africa, or near European Countries just to boost EU servers.

Btw, didnt The Secret World had global server, players from all around the world played it just fine. Speaking of Funcom, Funcom revealed their next game its Conan Exiles, its H1Z1 clone I think. I was gonna play H1Z1 on PS4 but Im giving it a chance before it.

We would have far worse ping coming to EU servers. Not in the interest of a new market or even an existing one.

TSW had global servers and no lag, and Zen cant do it? Ping is so bad excuse to move to Japan, EU Cyrodil lags for us Europeans too, Japan is going to lag for Japaneses players too. Im just afraid Japan doesnt get one good populated megaserver like we in EU dont and ESO is F2P-bound, but if they merge Japan and EU, we should get one good megaserver, as far I know NA has 3 good Cyrodil Campaign so they are good.

ub17_ESO · April 2016

Sausage wrote: »

ub17_ESO wrote: »

Sausage wrote: »

Hopefully they come to EU servers, at least give an option to do so if they want. Japan is good country, I'd imagine they have very good internet connections. Maybe they should go to Africa, or near European Countries just to boost EU servers.

Btw, didnt The Secret World had global server, players from all around the world played it just fine. Speaking of Funcom, Funcom revealed their next game its Conan Exiles, its H1Z1 clone I think. I was gonna play H1Z1 on PS4 but Im giving it a chance before it.

We would have far worse ping coming to EU servers. Not in the interest of a new market or even an existing one.

TSW had global servers and no lag, and Zen cant do it? Ping is so bad excuse to move to Japan, EU Cyrodil lags for us Europeans too, Japan is going to lag for Japaneses players too. Im just afraid Japan doesnt get one good populated megaserver like we in EU dont and ESO is F2P-bound, but if they merge Japan and EU, we should get one good megaserver, as far I know NA has 3 good Cyrodil Campaign so they are good.

I get that there will be lag in Cyrodil, but what you are missing is the fact that distance to the server matters despite what type of internet you have. That distance creates additional lag that we have on top of what is created by the server. Just by distance alone if the Japanese player base was forced to play on a server located in EU we would have no less than 1/3 second extra ping. Silly idea...

Elsonso · April 2016

ub17_ESO wrote: »

Sausage wrote: »

ub17_ESO wrote: »

Sausage wrote: »

Hopefully they come to EU servers, at least give an option to do so if they want. Japan is good country, I'd imagine they have very good internet connections. Maybe they should go to Africa, or near European Countries just to boost EU servers.

Btw, didnt The Secret World had global server, players from all around the world played it just fine. Speaking of Funcom, Funcom revealed their next game its Conan Exiles, its H1Z1 clone I think. I was gonna play H1Z1 on PS4 but Im giving it a chance before it.

We would have far worse ping coming to EU servers. Not in the interest of a new market or even an existing one.

TSW had global servers and no lag, and Zen cant do it? Ping is so bad excuse to move to Japan, EU Cyrodil lags for us Europeans too, Japan is going to lag for Japaneses players too. Im just afraid Japan doesnt get one good populated megaserver like we in EU dont and ESO is F2P-bound, but if they merge Japan and EU, we should get one good megaserver, as far I know NA has 3 good Cyrodil Campaign so they are good.

I get that there will be lag in Cyrodil, but what you are missing is the fact that distance to the server matters despite what type of internet you have. That distance creates additional lag that we have on top of what is created by the server. Just by distance alone if the Japanese player base was forced to play on a server located in EU we would have no less than 1/3 second extra ping. Silly idea...

This.

The network round trip between my location and the NA megaserver city is half of what it is between my location and the EU megaserver city. That is before we even get into how long it actually takes the megaserver to respond, which adds to that. My game-reported latency is between 90 and 100ms longer for EU than NA. A large portion of this difference is the increased distance to the server.

Splitting ESO into three megaserver camps was the right decision to make. What I wish that they had been able to do was bridge the megaservers so that they acted as a single megaserver, allowing EU/JP/NA to play together on the same platforms. That is a pretty complicated goal to achieve, though.

The network in Japan should be really good, so the response time of the server will be a much larger factor in determining the game response and latency. If ZOS can resolve their server and problems that add to the latency and fps problems with the game, the Japan server might be the place to play this game.

Mettaricana · April 2016

Probly postponed it so they can add boob windows and angel wings to everything and a massive boob slider to make japan players buy it

NewBlacksmurf · April 2016

JapanesePlayer wrote: »

sorry, looks like i was ttricked by other game news portal, they said January

SO I've always wanted to ask...are you on Xbox One?
If not....its someone else with your same name

Kalfis · April 2016

Mettaricana wrote: »

Probly postponed it so they can add boob windows and angel wings to everything and a massive boob slider to make japan players buy it

And the Bosmer will be turned into 12 year old's.

failkiwib16_ESO · April 2016

lol congratulations everyonem, you deserve a

You managed to necromance a thread from a player, who was known for necromancing ancient threads for weeks, untill he finelly made a goodbye-thread to the forums and stated that he would leave the forums.

Kuratius · April 2016

The one thing that I don't understand is why characters aren't global. For account management and tracking, having global characters shouldn't be an issue and would allow you to always play on the server closest to you. It would be very useful for people that move around a lot and it's not like it's a technological impossibility.

Asherons_Call · April 2016

Japanese players take hardcore to the next level. I'd rather keep separate servers so I can still feel good about how awesome I think my character is

Reverb · April 2016

failkiwib16_ESO wrote: »

lol congratulations everyonem, you deserve a

You managed to necromance a thread from a player, who was known for necromancing ancient threads for weeks, untill he finelly made a goodbye-thread to the forums and stated that he would leave the forums.

As I recall, he wanted to leave the forums because he kept getting slapped by mods for blatant ToS violations. Really blatant. I'm surprised he quit instead of getting the banhammer.

At any rate, without new information, this isn't a thread that needed reviving.

waterfairy · April 2016

You guys have decent MMO's in your native language so there's nothing to complain about...you'll likely go back to them after trying this game.

TipsyDrow · April 2016

ESO will fail horribly in japan. One thing asian MMO's are always spot on with and that's graphics. They may not have one lick of end game content. They may be full of grind and gold sellers, but.....The character models are always amazing in that asian mmo way, the costumes are always the kind that draws tons and tons of players to cash shops (skin,lingerie and big swords). The worlds are always achingly beautiful ESO is none of these and quite the exact opposite. They have cut every corner they can in regards to character customization,costumes and graphics.

dodgehopper_ESO · April 2016

Sausage wrote: »

Hopefully they come to EU servers, at least give an option to do so if they want. Japan is good country, I'd imagine they have very good internet connections. Maybe they should go to Africa, or near European Countries just to boost EU servers.

Btw, didnt The Secret World had global server, players from all around the world played it just fine. Speaking of Funcom, Funcom revealed their next game its Conan Exiles, its H1Z1 clone I think. I was gonna play H1Z1 on PS4 but Im giving it a chance before it.

It still is.

dodgehopper_ESO · April 2016

TipsyDrow wrote: »

ESO will fail horribly in japan. One thing asian MMO's are always spot on with and that's graphics. They may not have one lick of end game content. They may be full of grind and gold sellers, but.....The character models are always amazing in that asian mmo way, the costumes are always the kind that draws tons and tons of players to cash shops (skin,lingerie and big swords). The worlds are always achingly beautiful ESO is none of these and quite the exact opposite. They have cut every corner they can in regards to character customization,costumes and graphics.

No offense but I generally dislike the Japanese game esthetic. It can get to be a bit over the top, too flashy, and as you point out it over-sexualizes things at times. I'm fairly certain a lot of people I've played with over the years agree. There are certainly a number of Japanese games that have hit my radar and I've enjoyed, but I don't really see it the way you do. If US/EU players enjoy playing Japanese games with Japanese esthetic, I'm fairly positive there is a market out there for American games over there. SOME of them MUST like it.

I say this as someone who has gamer connections friends that come from Asia who actually quite like to see the 'Western' esthetic as well.

In regards to character customization I really don't see how you can say what you have. ESO is one of the best games out there for customization, and it is going to only get better when they add the barber-shop feature.

WalkingLegacy · April 2016

Yeah, no idea the Japs liked Western MMOs. I don't see this being very big over there. Who knows.

Kammakazi · April 2016

I want Japanese audio in my game because it sounds so much cooler.

fatemoe · April 2016

DMM is known for banning foreign IP.
You have better find a stable paid VPN to play this game

QuebraRegra · April 2016

JapanesePlayer wrote: »

im feeling sad about it...

DMM site says game will launch 23.06.2016

HA! I'd be on DRAGONS DOGMA ONLINE (only in JAPAN) in a hot minute and not look back.