Quote Originally Posted by Adrestia View Post
The “new NA DC” is an amalgamation of currently existing servers with a new set of shared resources like login and instance servers. A woefully incorrect solution to load balancing (“split the players up and hope they stay roughly at the distribution we want them to”) with the entirely unacceptable cost of severing social ties in an online game.
I believe the previous poster was referencing the new data center in California, replacing the one in Montreal, because the ISP there was unable to meet service level agreements.