They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[xxvaynxx]

Not happy with this.
Pretty much lost my static and now PF is basically gonna be dead because the all the servers on the new aether were the ones in PF for battle content the most.

Crystal is the RP DC now though. So guess that's good for some...Full of lv1 alts :T

[RicaRuin]

North America:
2 Data Centers, 13 and 11 Servers.

Europe:
1 Data Center with 10 Servers.

Japan:
3 Data Centers, 10 / 11 / 11 Servers.


So WHY is it okay for JP to have 11 Servers per Data Center but Europe needs to be split with only 10?
like ???????????

[SunAurel]

I am not leaving my FC, Friends and my House behind and neither do we expect him to do that. It sucks that we even have to choose between our friend groups

[Aruiya]

Not happy about this at all, because being on the new Balmung data center, I'm losing basically all of my cross-server friends as they are all staying on actual Aether. And the few that will still be moving to Crystal are already talking about leaving, because the Crystal raiding zone will be deader than dead. Many people I know are getting their statics broken up by this. I feel really shitty having to choose between my servers and having a house here versus duty playability and my cross-server friends.

[MorfineCeres18]

The problem is not that they split servers, the problem is HOW are they splitting them, it's like they didn't think at all how to do it. I don't know about the NA data centert but at least in Europe the big worlds are all together now in Chaos and the Small worlds all together on Light, what does this means? Light is gonna have lower queues, less PF movement, less people, less raiding.... and people on future Light DC server is already planning on moving to Chaos DC, so it's gonna be even more empty.
The new DC is not out yet and they already killed it!

[BillyKaplan]

Seems like a player caused issue to me.

Players: [foster relationships for years]
Players: [have paid money before to move servers to be where they want to be]
SE: [tears the community apart]
SE: why can't the players solve this problem?

[Vivi_Bushido]

Unpopular opinion, I think this is a good thing. It was a necessary evil to spread the player base out more and to prevent certain servers from being essentially the main hubs in a given data center.

[Dirwen]

Okay this might be a good reason for the Trust system to be implemented. Queue times gonna be horrible on Crystal.

[MorfineCeres18]

Unpopular opinion, I think this is a good thing. It was a necessary evil to spread the player base out more and to prevent certain servers from being essentially the main hubs in a given data center.

you know that's not gonna work like that right? everyone is gonna move to the popular servers and just make them more congested.

[SunAurel]

That's what the world Visit system is for. To distribute Population across the Servers. This here is insane.