Cross-data Center?

I know due to technical stand points its no something you can just pop in but will we ever get it? we got crossworld that is awsome but ive been playing ff14 since 1.0 now all my friends are starting to play and they picked a different data center and i cant help them have we gotten any news on this?

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Originally Posted by Tyrius

I know due to technical stand points its no something you can just pop in but will we ever get it? we got crossworld that is awsome but ive been playing ff14 since 1.0 now all my friends are starting to play and they picked a different data center and i cant help them have we gotten any news on this?

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Iirc, this is something Yoshi-P has expressed a strong desire to do but is being held back by budget and time constraints.

I imagine they are chipping away at their technical debt and making incremental changes with the way the game works to eventually make this a thing. Maybe a few expansions from now.

It's been confirmed that they don't know how it could work right now, but would like to figure it out eventually, so probably going to happen some day, but definitely don't hold your breath for it.

:( i am a sad panda! yoshi-p take my money and energy!!!!! *holds breath*

I mean from what we know, all the NA datacenters seem to be housed in the same location if not the same server room. So at the very least it should be possible to do cross-datacenter play between datacenters that are housed in the same location some day. It's just a matter of figuring how it'd work and getting the funding to do it. As SE themselves is a bit... Well... Let's just say Yoshi-P had to beg for the funding for the last round of upgrades.

Is it true that most of the funding this game receives is through MogStation and whatever SE throws at the development team?

Yoshida mentioned that they want to make this possible, so the idea itself is in the state of progress. The main question at this point is whether it's doable at all and when.

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Originally Posted by frijole

Is it true that most of the funding this game receives is through MogStation and whatever SE throws at the development team?

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From what we know, at least.

Yoshi-P mentioned in one of the last round of magazine interviews released last week that this is still a very hard task for them but they are still trying to figure that out. Will probably take quite a bit of time.

Cross server transfers have been amazing. Hard to remember now how it was before that. I would think since they want to they'll figure out a way to do it at some point.

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Originally Posted by TalithaSolarien

Yoshi-P mentioned in one of the last round of magazine interviews released last week that this is still a very hard task for them but they are still trying to figure that out. Will probably take quite a bit of time.

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yeah I know from a technical standpoint its extremely hard and hard=money/time consumption :(

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Originally Posted by Tyrius

I know due to technical stand points its no something you can just pop in but will we ever get it? we got crossworld that is awsome but ive been playing ff14 since 1.0 now all my friends are starting to play and they picked a different data center and i cant help them have we gotten any news on this?

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You would think, wouldn't you. SE invest very little into their datacentre tech.

It's my greatest disappointment with F14.

They have said they intend to do this, but it is by far not an easy undertaking.

Sometime in 6.* I imagine would be the absolute earliest.

I think the World Visit system is their first step towards achieving this. The framework is there, it's just figuring out how to implement the system.

For cross-datacentre within the same region (so, Aether, Crystal, and Primal for example, as well as a separate cluster for Chaos and Light), should be possible. However, I don't think say Primal people will ever be able to visit worlds on say Light.

Cross data-center instances are the next thing big they're working on.

Region world visit is going to be the iffy step after that.

So in 5.3 cross world party members will be able to use world visit, so the team really is doing this in baby steps.

World Transfer
World Visit
->Cross World Party World Visit
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Interdatacenter Visit(just a name I though of)
Regional Data Center Visit

Keep fingers crossed.

Local Data center stuff is a matter of time most likely.

Cross Region Data Center stuff, i am doubtful. would be expensive to maintain due to having to connect to two different data centers rather just just a short hop between the servers in the same building.

https://twinfinite.net/2019/08/final...v-datacenters/

Here's a twinfinite interview Yoshi P did last August. It's im the works but it's a ways off..

https://twinfinite.net/2019/08/final...v-datacenters/

Here's a twinfinite interview Yoshi P did last August. It's in the works but it's a ways off..