Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

[Ama_Hamada]

Any chance this means the end of Level 3 issues?

This, is the location going to end up using level 3 routing? that has to be the most important thing. If you say the game is supposed to be playable on 200 ms ping, why is there significant lag issues with a current 40 ping to Canada?

[ReplicaX]

This, is the location going to end up using level 3 routing? that has to be the most important thing. If you say the game is supposed to be playable on 200 ms ping, why is there significant lag issues with a current 40 ping to Canada?

Doesn't matter. The current issues are more involved than one backbone provider who has been blamed countless times for issues outside their own control and not even within their own infrastructure by the playerbase.

SE has been working on this DataCenter behind the scenes for about a year based on recent interviews. SE is now admitting the current NA DC cannot expand due to physical & power limitations as well as having overvoltaging issues which directly affects the players.

- The current NA DC cannot expand to reduce load limits on the current hardware that is already taxed. This directly effects connection stability.
- The NA DC is the weak point for further game expansions & system improvements to include SB, which affects all DCs. (Why there is a relocation & new DC targeted for May release)
- The Dev Team has been restricted to implement possible improvements and/or enhance the user experience that require server loads beyond the current already taxed NA DC limitations, however the other DCs can handle the additional loads and further expand if required within their current locations.

When a DataCenter's servers & network hardware is overtaxed on loads & on power, the end user experiences "lag". A similar example for the end user would be running their own CPU/GPU at 100% load and experiencing the slowdown caused as the processors are bottlenecked, unable to process instructions at its normal speeds.