Maybe i missunderstand something but why again did Europe get a Datacentersplit?

So SE Splits European Servers into 2 Datancenters so Loginrestrictions and other Congestionpreventionstuff is not neccesary.

Also SE: is now implementing eXactly that.

“We will make sure duty congestion is no longer a thing with the introduction of shb”
Hey look! DUTY QUES.

"Hi guys. Your sever split was indeed pointless
GOOD DAY TO YOU
yours sincerely SE."


Im confused.

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...980b38456abf54

In order to facilitate a smoother in-game experience for our many current players, as well as prepare for the increase in activity expected to come with the release of Shadowbringers, we have made the decision to expand our server infrastructure. Accordingly, one new data centre for North American players, and one for European players, will be created in April.

With the addition of new data centres, however, it will be necessary to redistribute various World servers. The current state of each World’s community and its primary language have been taken into consideration, but we understand that the redistribution may cause difficulties for players nevertheless.

We will be taking various steps to minimize the impact of these changes, including offering free World transfers for all characters on the European and North American Data Centres for a period of approximately two weeks after implementation. We ask for your understanding as we work to create a better experience for all players in the days to come.



But overall ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Originally Posted by White_Wolf_X

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...980b38456abf54

In order to facilitate a smoother in-game experience for our many current players, as well as prepare for the increase in activity expected to come with the release of Shadowbringers, we have made the decision to expand our server infrastructure. Accordingly, one new data centre for North American players, and one for European players, will be created in April.

With the addition of new data centres, however, it will be necessary to redistribute various World servers. The current state of each World’s community and its primary language have been taken into consideration, but we understand that the redistribution may cause difficulties for players nevertheless.

We will be taking various steps to minimize the impact of these changes, including offering free World transfers for all characters on the European and North American Data Centres for a period of approximately two weeks after implementation. We ask for your understanding as we work to create a better experience for all players in the days to come.

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Okay so it looks like i DID indeed missunderstand something.

Thanks.

The idea behind the split is to reduce the amount of stress on the duty server for the launch of ShB. But with the amount of people that'll surge on release day there'll always be some sort of congestion. I'd rather have them put prevention measures in place so we don't have another Raubahn extreme with a flood of people spamming the npc and only a few snatching an instance before people that have been waiting for hours. Instead people will have to queue and wait for their turn in the line if there is a congested instance.

Chances are EU could need more new worlds come 6.0 by the sounds of it...

"Q. How about EU?
Yoshida: It's about to puncture. Each server is reaching its limit and we have already decided to add 2 servers (Note: these 2 servers are Spriggan and Twintania)."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.red...n_famitsus_18/