reconsider EU DC split

[xbahax92]

Whats the idea of putting all region datacentre's into a column each?

The reason EU DC is getting divided is because of the instance servers. Currently we have about 120k active players - and numbers will increase for sure (Expansion, 5.0 incoming hello?). If you believe people wont come back and start to catch up/prepare for 5.0 then go back to 3.4-3.5 and check the how the population increased. There have been enough posts about current population at given times. Google will help.

And actually if you cut the crystal DC into 2 pieces and add them on both current DC, you would get around 120k~ active players as well. Thats almost the same amount as EU. And guess which datacenters had least issues during Stormblood release? Japan. They have their player base splitted already into 3 data centers since the beginning and while they had difficulties at the beginning, after the maint to fix it - Japan magically solved their MSQ issue. I wonder why?

If new data centers are the only option to increase and ease the problems with instanced servers, for old and new players. Then, I am sorry but I vote for the split. I do not like to experience the same issue with Stormblood release/and actually "early access". There are a lot of people who take off from work, prepare everything to start playing the game non stop, the hype, the fun. I wish not to be on hold on my first day again as Raubahn Extreme gated every other content and made people waste hours in a single day.