Dear SE (Dev team of FFXIV, relay this to those that determine your budget)

[Hamada]

The irony here is they've already given you the proof that they're doing exactly what you're asking them to do.

The new DC is them leasing another server rack or set of racks from the ISP. They're doing this to lower the resource load on each server to make room for things like more glamor plates, more housing, more instances, etc...which is something we've been asking them to get for years now. Leasing another server is going to directly increase they're costs but they aren't increasing our sub fees so where exactly is that money coming from? Are they taking it from other games or other parts of the company or is it coming from mogstation sales?

The server moves are a necessary growing pain for them to give us what we've been asking for. Its going to cause some inconvenience for everyone but the fact is, you don't have to move your house or relocate to another server. They've already offered very generous compensation packages for those who chose to move.

Easy for you to say because you get to stay on Aether, crystal is pretty much DoA and a lot of people, i am sure are going to be moving back to Aether making this whole thing pointless and making a dead data center. So it is either keep some friends, move to aether to be able progress, or keep my house with some friends and able not to do anything due dead PF/DF. "some inconvenience " is an understatement, we are not given enough for losing our houses and friends. They are not even giving us enough time to plan, SE made no statements how to further deal with the housing issues because of this. This is not fair at all.

They are not doing what I am asking them to do, they are only doing this because they do not want to pay to upgrade servers (increase/get current server tech/modernize) they are doing this because they do not want to find fixing the problem that causes all these problems, the netcode. They rushed 2.0 out so they have a bad mess for coding and it keeps making the player base suffer.