Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

Makin NA great again.

From France (ISP: Numericable Optical Fiber, FTTLa)

My ping to current Primal Datacenter in Montréal: 109ms (+-2ms)

My Ping to Los Angeles: 172ms (+-3ms)
My Ping to San Francisco: 165 ms (+-2ms)
My Ping to Dallas: 139ms (+-3ms)
My Ping to Chicago: 126 ms (+-2ms)
My Ping to Atlanta: 119 ms (+-2ms)
My Ping to New-York: 104 ms (+-3ms)


I hope it's not beyond Dallas. A central point would make lots of sense.

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Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

Servers in the new data center.

...What we can tell you is that the servers will remain on North American soil, in an area that features an advanced Internet infrastructure.

Changes to Ping Times

...However, due to the physical distance between the old and new data centers, players accessing the NA servers will most likely experience a change in their current ping times.

...We expect that the players most likely to experience a significant increase in ping times will be those in Europe playing on an NA data center World.

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This leads me to believe its going to be moved to the west coast. If it stayed in say the north east such as NJ or NY where some game servers are kept or even south of that the increase in EU ping would be negligible. If they were going to the west coast however such as southern california or vegas where MANY online games are this warning for EU would be prudent.

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Originally Posted by Scardon

This leads me to believe its going to be moved to the west coast. If it stayed in say the north east such as NJ or NY where some game servers are kept or even south of that the increase in EU ping would be negligible. If they were going to the west coast however such as southern california or vegas where MANY online games are this warning for EU would be prudent.

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Yeah, this is basically my thought on it. If it weren't going to screw over a boatload of people, they wouldn't need to be warning us that the game is going to go from playable to garbage. Hopefully they're just being over-cautious though and they're just moving it to Chicago or Dallas. A West Coast move would be complete BS.

Please please, can we have a general location? I've played on Brynhildr from the UK for over 3 years. I really don't want to have to server transfer and start over making friends D:

Being coy about where the servers are isn't going to last longer than the first person typing /tracert <new server IP> as soon as the servers come back up, SE.

At minimum, let us know what time zone the servers are going to be in.

Even a time zone would give us an idea for general latency without revealing any of that precious security information.

I am extremely anxious about a data center move. While I understand it needs to be done for the greater good of the game, server health etc... If it moves to the west coast it'll ruin the game for not just those from the EU playing on NA realms, but it'll ruin it for the majority of the east coast as well. Pleeeassse be a central location -.-;

From the pics it looks a lot like the main floor of http://www.americanis.net/colocation...o-data-center/ (which is in the old SG&E building)
Or https://www.switch.com/locations/#switch-las-vegas

Both are T4 datacenters and would meet the posted criteria.

A someone playing from New Zealand with over 200 ping, this move is great news, depending on how far south and west it ends up being.

Also i don't think it's going to affect EU players as much as you think, given the above post from France. Even if it ends up being Los Angeles, still looking at sub 200 ping which is more than playable in endgame. Sure it's not ideal but it's also not a game breaker.