EU Queue Times After Data Center Split

The US split wont be nearly as bad as the EU split, as each DC is effectively only losing around 30% instead of 50% of the player base.

Bit the issue goes a bit further than just Raubahn savage.

When Orbonne and Hydatos dropped, we exceeded the DC's instance capacity (in the EU)
Regardless of what you were queuing for, you could be sat in a queue for an extra 20 minutes even with a full party, because the DC couldn't generate any more instances.

That's a peak time, but it's during the end of a patch cycle, so a new expansion will be worse.

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Originally Posted by Starflake

With WoW declining, SHB being released soon and the rumour that Xbox One joins the FFXIV platform, you'd have a whole lot worse than Raubahn extreme on your hands.

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Do you really think that will make FF grow that extreme? People will come back to Shadowbringers for a few week or even months and then they are gone again. Most people from WoW will also leave again when the next expansion hits or when they find out that FF is not what they are really looking for.

We will see if the split was a good decision after Shadowbringers is out for a few months, for now it just annoys the players that didn't take a break until then.

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Originally Posted by Anselmet

I don't think NA will have the same issues bc we have an overall higher population. Aether will still have Gilgamesh while Crystal will have both Balmung and Mateus. I know nothing of the primal server but I wouldn't be surprised if they don't have a big population server backing it still.

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Primal will be fine since Leviathan is a pretty close third place in player population.

Really, the plan for the NA datacenter split seems to be a lot more organized given that each datacenter has one super-populated server (Balmung, Greg and Leviathan), at least one other server with a higher population because they couldn't get on the super-populated server in that datacenter, and most of the predominantly desolate servers going to the Crystal datacenter as a reminder to Balmung players that they have almost no excuse now not to transfer.

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Originally Posted by Efrye

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I don't buy the image or much what of what you mentioned. I've played the game at many different times after the split whether it's during peak hours or during very late at night / early morning and haven't had to wait that so long (226m or 5hrs) for any duty in the roulette (excluding frontlines) so something doesn't add up here

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Originally Posted by Kazrah

Primal will be fine since Leviathan is a pretty close third place in player population.

Really, the plan for the NA datacenter split seems to be a lot more organized given that each datacenter has one super-populated server (Balmung, Greg and Leviathan), at least one other server with a higher population because they couldn't get on the super-populated server in that datacenter, and most of the predominantly desolate servers going to the Crystal datacenter as a reminder to Balmung players that they have almost no excuse now not to transfer.

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Well, the EU datacenter has no super populated worlds, and also none with a compareable super low population. Instead they all have a high population of 9k+ people, except Louisoix, wich has "only" 8400 people. There is a reason we are getting 2 new servers again: The EU servers are full. Basically all of them. And I guess so was the datacenter.

The split was done with the language barrier in mind. Servers with more french people got put into Chaos, servers with more german people got put into Light. I would call that organized.


Also, the majority of Europe lives in the same timezone, while the US is split over 4. Especially between the high populated east- and westcoasts are a few hours difference, wich means peak hours in EU are more of a problem than in NA.

https://www.travelbook.de/data/uploa...1-1040x690.jpg

I think at this time it's hard to get a good measurement of queue times, as the game is going to be on a decline as people wait for the release of Shadowbringers... Certainly the split isn't helping at getting into raids and dungeons, but it's not the only cause.

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Originally Posted by Tint

Well, the EU datacenter has no super populated worlds, and also none with a compareable super low population. Instead they all have a high population of 9k+ people, except Louisoix, wich has "only" 8400 people. There is a reason we are getting 2 new servers again: The EU servers are full. Basically all of them. And I guess so was the datacenter.

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Where did you get those numbers?
ffxivcensus.com is really inaccurate since "Active" players mean that:
* (Any reference to "Active" characters, refers to characters that have claimed the "Dress-up Raubahn" mount from the 4.1 story)
Its a terrible source tbh.

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Originally Posted by Greywolfamakir

Where did you get those numbers?

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From the Lucky Bancho census a few months ago :O

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...anuary_1_2019/

But well... honestly I don't know how they determine active characters xD I just trust them o.o/

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Originally Posted by Tint

From the Lucky Bancho census a few months ago :O

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...anuary_1_2019/

But well... honestly I don't know how they determine active characters xD I just trust them o.o/

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Usually it's based on something like a current MSQ achievement or mount/minion.