Quote Originally Posted by Nalien View Post
So would I be correct in assuming the reason behind this is likely the World-Visit feature? I can see that adding extra stress to the servers that would require such a split... If so... Honestly I can live without that feature, when you spirit away half my friends like this it's already a fairly redundant feature anyway... Delay this whole mess until you can work on a cross-data-center feature that effectively removes the negatives of this change...
i don't think its just the world visiting feature, Harken back to the days of yore, known as... the storm blood launch, where balmung was so full of players the server broke, and took the data centre with it, then remember 4.3 where balmung broke, due to the server over stressing itself, the dc split seems like a way to lower overall stress between the data centres.