Sign if you would of Prefered this over the data Center shuffle

[Barraind]

I would have 0 problems moving to crystal if i could still do party and group finder stuff with the vast majority of my regular contacts that are going to be still on Aether.

Housing is far lower on the list than raiding, dog/craft mat farming/ect

[Shurrikhan]

Shhhhh. People don't want to hear truth.

Few things one would be happy to tune out more than "our massively multiplayer online game isn't well equipped to allow a massive amount of players to play online together."

[Nalien]

Just wait for 6.0... I'm sure 5.0 will still have its Raubahn Extreme, and as a result they'll plan more splits before 6.0. Hopefully that time Gaia/Elemental/Mana get hit too and the JP backlash magically results in a "Oh there's a better solution to all this!" somehow...

[Shurrikhan]

Just wait for 6.0... I'm sure 5.0 will still have its Raubahn Extreme, and as a result they'll plan more splits before 6.0. Hopefully that time Gaia/Elemental/Mana get hit too and the JP backlash magically results in a "Oh there's a better solution to all this!" somehow...

So, the most practical plan of action is to just all make JP server alts and ready them for launch day among a playerbase subset whose concerns are more likely to be addressed?

[Iscah]

I would have 0 problems moving to crystal if i could still do party and group finder stuff with the vast majority of my regular contacts that are going to be still on Aether.

Housing is far lower on the list than raiding, dog/craft mat farming/ect

Sounds like you should make use of the free world transfers they've announced are part of the reorganising process? If friends are higher priority than housing then it sounds like you're the sort of person they're aiming at.

[Beckett]

All I want is for all servers across all data centers and regions to be able to interact with each other, but also for it not to have any negative impact on instances.

Also, the servers should be moved to near me, but my friends on the other side of the world shouldn't experience any lag. Please make it happen, SE!

[Dyvid]

Does anyone with a Master degree in Computer Networking care to explain why? I don't of course but willing to take an easy guess at it.

All your character data; items, money, retrainer, ect.., is stored in the Data Center. It's easy to transfer that information within the data center because it's localized in the network mainframe. To move all that information to another data center means you have to transmit all the information over the internet which takes time and could possible lose information packets. How fun would it be to wait 30 minutes to load to a new world and find that some of your gear is missing?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but sometimes:

[SorrowsEnd]

It would be the best thing to happen to this game if they added that in my honest opinion. Some people don't wanna leave their data center for whatever reason some do the ability to play on your main character and queue for with whatever friend on whatever data center sounds amazing rather than having x amount of alts for x amount of data center different friends. It's an amazing concept that would help alot of people is it gonna happen though? No most likely not. SE as shown in the past goes the cheap routes when possible on alot of things. I have hopes eventually it will come but I don't think it will at least not with how the current mindset is of the devs/upperheads at SE and regarding the spaghetti code/dying hamsters we have in which we can't even craft from our retainers for example.

[Nihility]

pretty sure if they could do that it would have already been implemented when they added cross-server

[SendohJin]

Few things one would be happy to tune out more than "our massively multiplayer online game isn't well equipped to allow a massive amount of players to play online together."

do other MMOs really not have servers (i've only played 4 in my life and everyone has them)? do they really have open world fields where you load 2000 players at the same time?