Datacenters: A Plea For Community Building, Not Fracturing

[WaterShield]

Exactly. Balmung isn't the problem here - the problem is the game being too popular and needing more infrastructure to support it. Yes, Balmung was moved away from Gilgamesh because they're the two most populated servers on the game in terms of active players and splitting them up is a smart idea in general. But this was something that was a long time coming - Balmung isn't the sole factor of it.

Except this doesn't actually add any infrastructure. This is a move to more evenly balance people (see load balancing) across the same existing hardware (no new servers being added). That is not much of an investment at all.

Also how do you explain Arena Net's ability to do Mega server tech? Bethesda as well with ESO. Are they just that much better funded than SE? I find that hard to believe.

As many people before me have pointed out, the dated code SE is using is impeding their ability to grow the game. Rather than fix it properly, we are being given a band aid that can be completely invalidated by people transferring back to Aether and Primal.
Shortsighted at best. Purposely negligent at worst. Is it any wonder people think they are using the majority of the money from this game to bankroll their other operations?