Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

[Aronys]

Um... "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." - will this render endgame unplayable for people who are from EU and have been playing on NA servers since way before EU got servers of their own? This doesn't bode well.

[alimdia]

Um... "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." - will this render endgame unplayable for people who are from EU and have been playing on NA servers since way before EU got servers of their own? This doesn't bode well.

Google WoW servers IPs and ping the west, midwest and central servers, it's not the same but should give you a close number to what it will be for you depending on which of those three zones SE plans to pick.

[Bizzy]

In conjunction with the relocation, we expect a maximum downtime of 48 hours for those players using the NA servers. The EU and JP data centers will also experience downtime of up to 24 hours to allow for maintenance required to connect existing servers with the new NA data center. To compensate for play time lost, we are looking into extending all active account subscriptions by one day.

So if NA servers are down for a max of 48 hours, we are only getting a compensation for 1 day? Come on SE you can do better then this! If we can't play for 48 hours then you should give us 2 days compensation. There is 24 hours in a day. Learn to do your math. We all pay a subscription to this game, so I feel that we should get 2 days compensation.

[Texa]

So if NA servers are down for a max of 48 hours, we are only getting a compensation for 1 day? Come on SE you can do better then this! If we can't play for 48 hours then you should give us 2 days compensation. There is 24 hours in a day. Learn to do your math. We all pay a subscription to this game, so I feel that we should get 2 days compensation.

They'd only compensate for one day because that'd be the maximum amount of time we'd be under more maintenance than people on the EU and JP servers.

To phrase it another way, there would be no access to the game for anyone on any server for 24 hours. Only those on Aether and Primal would lose play time after that point though and they're only going to potentially compensate for that extra time.

[KarstenS]

So if NA servers are down for a max of 48 hours, we are only getting a compensation for 1 day? Come on SE you can do better then this! If we can't play for 48 hours then you should give us 2 days compensation. There is 24 hours in a day. Learn to do your math. We all pay a subscription to this game, so I feel that we should get 2 days compensation.

Don't get greedy. EU players got nothing.

[ErryK]

Don't get greedy. EU players got nothing.

EU players did get compensation:
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...8c71cb4be72616

In order to compensate players inconvenienced by this extended maintenance, those who meet the following requirements will have their subscriptions extended by the number of days required for maintenance:

• Service accounts containing characters on the Worlds within the Chaos data center (Cerberus / Lich / Moogle / Odin / Phoenix / Ragnarok / Shiva / Zodiark) before Friday, September 18, 2015 at 9:00 (GMT).
• Service accounts with an active subscription.

But the whole 48 hours thing is a MAXIMUM, not necessarily taking 24 hours extra.

[ReplicaX]

So if NA servers are down for a max of 48 hours, we are only getting a compensation for 1 day? Come on SE you can do better then this! If we can't play for 48 hours then you should give us 2 days compensation. There is 24 hours in a day. Learn to do your math. We all pay a subscription to this game, so I feel that we should get 2 days compensation.

They know their math. They could give zero compensation for a relocation like this.

Instead since this is outside a normal scope of 24hrs, they are compensating for 1 day.

[Sanghelios]

So if NA servers are down for a max of 48 hours, we are only getting a compensation for 1 day? Come on SE you can do better then this! If we can't play for 48 hours then you should give us 2 days compensation. There is 24 hours in a day. Learn to do your math. We all pay a subscription to this game, so I feel that we should get 2 days compensation.

While they learn their math, you may learn to read the terms of use, wich clearly state that they arent forced to give any free subscription days for mainteance. Complaining about it is also quite silly.

[willhanema]

So if NA servers are down for a max of 48 hours, we are only getting a compensation for 1 day? Come on SE you can do better then this! If we can't play for 48 hours then you should give us 2 days compensation. There is 24 hours in a day. Learn to do your math. We all pay a subscription to this game, so I feel that we should get 2 days compensation.

So by that logic, you're saying they should also give us a free day of sub every time maintenance lasts for a whole day. While that would be great, yes, I'd say we should be glad that they're giving us free time at ALL for maintenance that's been deemed necessary. They could've just as easily decided we don't get extra time at all and just treat it the way they do with major patch maintenance.

[Lexia]

So if NA servers are down for a max of 48 hours, we are only getting a compensation for 1 day? Come on SE you can do better then this! If we can't play for 48 hours then you should give us 2 days compensation. There is 24 hours in a day. Learn to do your math. We all pay a subscription to this game, so I feel that we should get 2 days compensation.

From the new post if only effects game sub and not retainers, so that going to mess up billing and get two different charges (one for retainer/one for sub)? If so they could of just kept that extra day.