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[pchp]

They had the opportunity to improve latency for most people in the US and instead they make it objectively worse for everyone living east of Kansas.

Yeah, that was dumb. Good job.

[Doki]

Well at least doing it now means the servers will be stable by expansion release... right? .... RIGHT? /cry

[Alfendi]

I don't believe the location of game companies really have an effect on where the servers are located. Then again, I could be very wrong. Southern California probably has the largest amount of game companies congested in one area (Blizzard, Riot Games, Obsidian Studios, Atlus to just name a few) so I wouldn't be all too surprised if the servers are truly within the State.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

I don't know what people still think SE is sensible.

These are the people that have AST a 20% balance. Just saying.

[HunterD]

What can I say, our providers like to rob from their customers and no one bats an eye...

You have to take into consideration that all of USA isn't on fibre cabling, a lot of it is still on slow coppers, this is what the biggest issue would be, rather than just your service providers. Somehow I doubt there is a direct fibre link from east to west.

[Freyt]

Oh my how dare you... this is the forum and the Sky is Always Falling here!

Well it already fell once!

[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?

[Vhailor]

How do you know this?

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.

[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...