3.2 PvP changes - Live letter

[Stupiduglytaru]

Eh, a data center is a collection of servers. They already do that.

[CeveArthu]

Eh, a data center is a collection of servers. They already do that.

the point he was making is that they should, in the interest of matchmaking, combine Primal+Aether as a single node and Mana+Gaia+Elemental as another single node, as they are all housed in the same building complexes

(before anyone argues that they shouldnt do that because chaos DC wont be able to, thats not a legitimate argument)

[Vandril]

the point he was making is that they should, in the interest of matchmaking, combine Primal+Aether as a single node and Mana+Gaia+Elemental as another single node, as they are all housed in the same building complexes

Yep. I mean, at that point, why even keep them separate? There's, what, 20-200 ft. in distance between certain Data Centers since they're in the same huge complex (maybe even the same room, for all we know)? They're already in the "same center", they just act like they aren't.

With today's technology, the only reason to have different Data Centers/Battlegroups/whatever the MMO of the moment calls them is due to differences in geographical position. Combining them regardless of distance will cause too much latency variance between players depending on where they're connecting to the servers from, so that's obviously no good. But when the geographical position of multiple Data Centers is the same, latency would no longer be an issue if they were combined and there's no reason to keep them separate.