Please merge the EU DataCenters together

[Kleeya]

Didn't the dc split happen to avoid at Shadowbringers launch another Raubahn Ex incident, which players did get very vocal about ?

Also since i see that the op is from Lich, i dont know for english and german players, but french ones (who can speak english and with whom there is no language barrier) did massively believe that Chaos would be THE raid server, and most serious raiders moved here. Some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy : if everybody leaves Light, of course it will be hard to find people left on it XD

[Pallero]

Didn't the dc split happen to avoid at Shadowbringers launch another Raubahn Ex incident, which players did get very vocal about ?

I'm sure nobody would want to fix the problems of one single day by suffering the rest of the days the expansion.

[Kleeya]

I'm sure nobody would want to fix the problems of one single day by suffering the rest of the days the expansion.

Well, i did give Raubahn Ex as an example, but there was more that, and not only at ShB launch. For another example i remember very clearly at some point entering Leap of Faith being too hard for the old dc to handle because of the amount of people trying to do it at the same time. Are we even sure that merging the two dc will not pose the same kind of problems ?

Oh and yes, tons of people worried of another Raubahn Ex were thinking the dc split to be a very good thing back then. It is just that SE can never win with a community asking for something one day, and the exact contrary a bit later.

[Mansion]

I'm sure nobody would want to fix the problems of one single day by suffering the rest of the days the expansion.

The thing is that it's not a "single day", it would have been every single moment at peak time. We don't have the figures, but we can confidently say that EU Dcs welcomed a lot of new players with 5.0, which would have made the situation even worse.
So everyone on the same DC would give laggy and bugged instances, endless queues because of unavailable instances and so on. I remember 4.2 launch was a nightmare in Sigmascape, phantom train's ghosts warping all over the place and sometimes too many people logged in on Tuesday evening would have bad repercussions on people in Savage instances.
That problem even happened for a few hours during SB lauch (at least on Chaos), so after the split. And I think I read something that too many people doing Ishgard stuff recently did have an impact on Alexander Ultimate instances?

So yes, there was a need to either split or beef up the servers. And I'm pretty sure the latter option was too expensive. But they did say they were now trying to work a system for inter DC stuff, so who knows. I doubt it will come by a ShB patch, but maybe for 6.0