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[Vexander]

Only thing that bothers me about them choosing Sacramento, CA, is that when California inevitably drops off into the pacific from an earthquake, there goes the Servers.

[Takamorisan]

Only thing that bothers me about them choosing Sacramento, CA, is that when California inevitably drops off into the pacific from an earthquake, there goes the Servers.

What bothers me is everything:
Location you are going to screw up international players, Server Cost since California ain't cheap and to make it even worst if some natural disaster hits the place, 2 weeks without FFXIV just like happened with FFXI.

[Vexander]

What bothers me is everything:
Location you are going to screw up international players, Server Cost since California ain't cheap and to make it even worst if some natural disaster hits the place, 2 weeks without FFXIV just like happened with FFXI.

As an East Coaster, I don't disagree with you. Pity they didn't host it somewhere over here. I have no idea why the West Coast seems so popular for MMOs. Blizzard at least has its HQ there, so them I can accept, but does SE have an office over there or something?

[Sagittarii]

As an East Coaster, I don't disagree with you. Pity they didn't host it somewhere over here. I have no idea why the West Coast seems so popular for MMOs. Blizzard at least has its HQ there, so them I can accept, but does SE have an office over there or something?

SE has its office in El Segundo, CA. I drive by it on the way to work.

[Shougun]

As an East Coaster, I don't disagree with you. Pity they didn't host it somewhere over here. I have no idea why the West Coast seems so popular for MMOs. Blizzard at least has its HQ there, so them I can accept, but does SE have an office over there or something?

Unless Canada was charging an arm and a leg and it really was all about money. Logically it costs quite a bit just to move things, and shut down servers, all that jazz -and if they were not lying this move will afford them more options in development.. then I would assume it's because it services most of the NA population well.

Of course I have no idea what the population break down of FFXIV players is, but again to me it would be weird to spend a lot of money and time moving things unless the savings are astounding or if it is actually for general benefit of most players. EU consideration being none now though, since SE now has EU servers - which sucks for people who stuck with the NA servers when they're EU but it sort of makes sense as its no longer the "NA + EU" server.

Although I would note WoW has data centers across the whole of US... So.. East coast player would still play on the east, and the west on the west :P. I assume that is most optimal for everyone. http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/US_rea..._by_datacenter (Of course this is extra costly, and depending on the amount of players you have.. an issue with player density if spread out too much).

Definitely we should all wait to see what the gain/damage is, and wait past any new server stability issues which we might get too (got to break in that new server smell ;D).

[Sagittarii]

When I heard the NA data center was changing, my first guess was somewhere in El Segundo, CA, because that's where the NA office is, and there are a lot of data centers in the area.

If it's in Sacramento, that's still just a 1hr flight from the NA Square-Enix office.

[alimdia]

When I heard the NA data center was changing, my first guess was somewhere in El Segundo, CA, because that's where the NA office is, and there are a lot of data centers in the area.

If it's in Sacramento, that's still just a 1hr flight from the NA Square-Enix office.

Offices have nothing to do with data centers, the people working at the office have zero access to anything server related.

[Sagittarii]

Offices have nothing to do with data centers, the people working at the office have zero access to anything server related.

How do you know this?

[Kosmos992k]

When I heard the NA data center was changing, my first guess was somewhere in El Segundo, CA, because that's where the NA office is, and there are a lot of data centers in the area.

If it's in Sacramento, that's still just a 1hr flight from the NA Square-Enix office.

They also own Crystal Dynamics in Redwood City which is closer to the new data center site, not that it actually matters...

It's a reasonable guess, though there's no hard evidence one way or another.

Generally speaking, data centres don't share a location with office space. There are some exceptions - particularly if a company has built a large campus-style office complex - but if they haven't, it's likely they're housed separately.

The main reason for this, of course, is that office space / data centre space is typically rented or purchased from someone else. Most buildings are built with one or the other in mind, not both. So the probability of a company like SE, that hasn't built a large complex within the US, magically finding a dual-purpose location that works well for office space and data centre storage, is rather low.

It's more likely that they lease space with a data center provider who also maintains a second site just in case of natural disaster, etc...

[Oxmodial]

As an East Coaster, I don't disagree with you. Pity they didn't host it somewhere over here. I have no idea why the West Coast seems so popular for MMOs. Blizzard at least has its HQ there, so them I can accept, but does SE have an office over there or something?

Exactly what MMOs besides WoW have servers over here? Everything is in Texas/Chicago or east coast.