Data Center Expansion - Questions

[Kyeria]

That is correct. Average queue time is about to increase as the same pool of players will now be spread across 3 data centers instead of 2. They are doing this to grant increase stability of the servers during the expansion rush.

Hmm, thanks for clearing this up for me! I guess we'll just have to see how this pans out, but I'm honestly a little nervous of the long term effects of this decision. However, on the other hand, I'm am glad to see they're trying to remedy the issue that happened with StormBloods launch. I guess there isn't a perfect solution...

[Vidu]

Hmm, thanks for clearing this up for me! I guess we'll just have to see how this pans out, but I'm honestly a little nervous of the long term effects of this decision. However, on the other hand, I'm am glad to see they're trying to remedy the issue that happened with StormBloods launch. I guess there isn't a perfect solution...

Til Stormblood the EU-DC only had 8 servers aswell and queuetimes werent horrible. Unless you're playing at really weird hours (in which case you should probably consider if a japanese or EU server might fit your time-schedulde better in general) you shouldnt be to worried.
8 servers are still quite a lot of people - assuming that the roughly 250k active characters on the NA-servers are spread out evenly about all 3 DCs that still means that you have about 83k people to play with.