They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[MorfineCeres18]

So in EU we have populated world on chaos and dead worlds on light.... rip light data center, they just killed it -.-

[Ilan]

Japp its nice if you know people on a server thats gonna end up on a different datacenter. Nice job SE.

[Yuyuka3]

Can we please not put all the raiders on one EU datacenter and the rest on the other? I really don't want to leave my server, but I also want to raid, and that will be awfully difficult if you just rip me of all the people I can reasonably raid with! Just split it down the middle, damn it!

Oh, and MUCH THANKS for ripping half my off-world friends away from me, as well as destroying several statics I know. Good job, SE, really good job.

[MorfineCeres18]

Can we please not put all the raiders on one EU datacenter and the rest on the other? I really don't want to leave my server, but I also want to raid, and that will be awfully difficult if you just rip me of all the people I can reasonably raid with! Just split it down the middle, damn it!

Oh, and MUCH THANKS for ripping half my off-world friends away from me, as well as destroying several statics I know. Good job, SE, really good job.

They're just gonna make everyone move to Chaos Data Center and it's gonna be even more congested, it's stupid -.-

[Yui_Tenshi]

Kinda sad. All my friends moved to Zalera a while back while I remained on Faerie. Now we will be split permanently.

[Rymm]

I'm a bit surprised at the number of people acting shocked over this. It's the same sort of reaction that the lockdown of Balmung and Gilgamesh prompted, even though both were/are totally necessary. This has been a long time coming. They've been trying to encourage people to move off of congested worlds for years now, gently at first and with ever increasing force. Something had to give and it appears that this is the moment.

I know when things were really bad at the start of SB that there was even speculation that the over loaded worlds might get forcibly torn right in half. I guess we should just be glad they decided to go with something a little less extreme.

[Dirwen]

Seems I'm gonna have two high level alts stuck on crystal but will probably move one of them to Aether once free transfers open up. Mostly my alt on Zalera as buying stuff from the MB been a horrible experience for me.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Its necessary.

Probably why they have less issues on the JP worlds, because the traffic is spread out more. People were literally complaining about this.

Necessary because they're too incompetent not to put an instance ten quests into the MSQ or make servers that can handle a decent load? Regardless, this is entirely pointless since people are already saying they're moving right back. Balmung's shout chat is littered with people saying they're going to transfer. And virtually every raid group, casual to hardcore, is either leaving or discussing it. So all this will accomplish is Gilgamesh being the new Balmung in terms of population while Jevona, Cactuar and Sarg are all the secondary raid options. Crystal, meanwhile, will have a near dead PF.

What are they going to do, lock all of Aether and force people onto Crystal? That's a genius way to kill your game.

[ElainaMason]

I know when things were really bad at the start of SB that there was even speculation that the over loaded worlds might get forcibly torn right in half. I guess we should just be glad they decided to go with something a little less extreme.

But that was only for some weeks and then we didn't have problems anymore.
We will really get problems with filling groups in the two EU Datacenters some weeks / months after 5.0.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Necessary because they're too incompetent not to put an instance ten quests into the MSQ or make servers that can handle a decent load? Regardless, this is entirely pointless since people are already saying they're moving right back. Balmung's shout chat is littered with people saying they're going to transfer. And virtually every raid group, casual to hardcore, is either leaving or discussing it. So all this will accomplish is Gilgamesh being the new Balmung in terms of population while Jevona, Cactuar and Sarg are all the secondary raid options. Crystal, meanwhile, will have a near dead PF.

What are they going to do, lock all of Aether and force people onto Crystal? That's a genius way to kill your game.

And thats right back the the original problem.

People seeing certain servers as bad.

How about fostering new communities on these datacenters instead of all transferring off. That makes it a self fulfilling prophecy.