Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

[MuseTraveller]

Best case scenario for us Europeans on NA servers - somewhere on the east coast. Worst case scenario, somewhere on the west coast. Given the warning I brace myself for the worst.

[Texa]

People will likely figure out where the servers are as soon as they connect. It's not like you have exactly hidden the current servers locations. Why hide it now?

It might be a contractual obligation that they don't directly disclose it.

That said, I wonder if this will hurt or help people play on NA severs in Australia or New Zealand? I guess there's no way to know for sure until it happens but Oceania players tend to get the short end of the stick fairly often already.

[Calibur097]

Thank you for the information YoshiP. If this move is necessary for Stormblood and the game experience to be successful, so be it.

[yogse]

Please consider merging Aether and Primal data centers with this upgrade!

[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.

[KokonoeAiyoko]

What we can tell you is that the servers will remain on North American soil

I hope this means they are in USA. :O

[Zojha]

Best case scenario for us Europeans on NA servers - somewhere on the east coast. Worst case scenario, somewhere on the west coast. Given the warning I brace myself for the worst.

Mhm, I dare say west coast is unlikely - they'd only reverse the current situation between people currently on the east/west coast.

I imagine it's gonna be somewhere central to suit the most of the NA needs. Considering I can ping all the way around the globe to Sydney at around 340 MS, I doubt the ping increase will be too bad for me ... unless we end up relying on comcast routing or something >_>

[Sarevok_Thordin]

I'm very worried about this.

I'm from the UK play on the primal DC to be with my American friends, with us getting hyped for SB, this news ain't good for us. I can see 96-113 on performance monitor, maybe I'm overpanicing about it, but....yeah, uncertainity is bad yo.

Any means of being able to test our potential latency would be appreciated when the new ISP is decided.

[seekified]

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.

The EU servers used to be on the same physical site as the current NA one, and we could play just fine back then. It shouldn't be very different, but obviously the latency will increase if they move to the west coast.

[KokonoeAiyoko]

Any chance this means the end of Level 3 issues?