Originally Posted by
Aidorouge
Yes, and I know it's not fair that East Coast players have been at a disadvantage this whole time while West Coast players were not, albeit this was something I only became aware of in this topic. And while there *should* be a solution to that for East Coast players, especially when it wasn't always like this for them due to previous physical data center locations, designating which data centers become West Coast and East Coast should be done with consideration of players who are now suddenly trying to play the game from the other side of the country because their data center moved (and the latency is apparently bad enough already to justify these re-locations for East Coast players), otherwise all its doing is subjecting some West Coast players to the same issue, or how it wouldn't help any East Coast players whose data center didn't move at all.
But that requires a great deal of heavy-lifting (and a big ask) on Square-Enix's part, both when it comes to the physical re-re-location and allowing people to migrate effortlessly to the data center that's ideal for them, with the added issue that there's no guarantee that all (or even most) players will go through with moving given how entrenched some of them are right now even with things like housing plots going on unclaimed or people still trying to slip in and park on Aether/Primal/Crystal. It's always been the biggest issue with getting anything to change in this game, the company and community never wants to budge.
Personally I have no friends or FC on Dynamis, and I'm not attached enough to my Small house to be adverse to moving to a West Coast data center if re-location occurred, but only if that transfer is free, and more importantly I don't end up on a data center that's even deader than current-Dynamis because the re-location resulted in a new super data center on the other side of the country except now I have to deal with latency issues making travel there about as viable as me trying to play on the OCE data center. (I gave it a try, immediately noticed the performance drop, haven't been back since.)
I want a solution that doesn't screw over anybody instead of people thinking players on the East Coast or West Coast are a "you're a sacrifice I'm willing to make" kinda deal.