Please merge the EU DataCenters together

[swiss_Momo]

no.
EU might be the smallest region, but pre-split Chaos was the second largest data centre after Aehter (lol, Balmung and Gilgamesh), with practically all servers being amongst the 20 highest in population. The split was a necessary evil to allow EU to grow again without Chaos constantly going up in flames.

[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.

[Alaeacus]

I'm not in EU but the only responses I see against this idea, seem to be against it for purely biased reasons. Probably some flawed opinion on the "reputation" of some worlds in the Chaos data center.

It's the same thing for the U.S. data centers. People keep parroting the "Aether=Raid, Primal=Casual, Crystal=Gross ERP" idea. In reality, all these people are the same. In fact, I just recently moved from Gilgamesh (the so-called raid central of Aether) over to Excalibur (Primal), and Primal's PF is twice the size of Aether's every night (including Static parties) and the zones are far more lively.

It's so stupid, these reputations are almost never founded in truth. People are so eager to form teams and begin their "us versus them" rhetoric. Fact: More people = Larger pool to play with.

P.S. I have seen the report showing Aether has more clears of hard content than Primal but to be honest, it's not THAT much more.

[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

[Gwenorai]

Nah, I'm good fam.
No Moogle for me.

[Metsonm]

I agree that the split needed to happen as we were significantly large. The problem with only having the one DC was that a 50% split hurt us way more than NA losing 33% from each.

I'm in the camp that it's a necessary evil in the long run as we'll hopefully get numbers back. But they're in a catch-22 here. If they remerge the DC, there's less room to grow, but if it remains split the low playerbase might scare off those people who will help it grow. But in the grand scheme, it's probably for the best if they can get people to stick.

Also obligatory "lolMoogle".

[SuperZay]

I remember they announced plans for cross-datacenter visits some time ago (was it in one of Yoshi's interviews?), starting with datacenters in the same region. Who knows, maybe eventually it'll evolve into an unified DF/PF too.

[RicaRuin]

Wow, and here I thought server stereotypes are getting old. But people still seem to insist on them, so maybe we shouldn't merge the servers - I like how everyone is getting along on Chaos.

[Tlamila]

Wow, and here I thought server stereotypes are getting old. But people still seem to insist on them, so maybe we shouldn't merge the servers - I like how everyone is getting along on Chaos.

I'm thinking the same.
I'd like to play with my friends from Light, but if a merge involves all this hate..no thanks.