Sales resumption, Home World Transfer resumption, and Oceanic Data Centre announced

[Garet]

No login queues. Getting into actually content via Duty Finder is a different matter entirely. Granted, I suspect OCE will have enough interest to make them relatively okay. NA, on the other hand, I wonder. There's very little incentive to transfer off Aether, Primal or Crystal. Whether you're a roleplayer, raider or whatever, you'll have the smallest pool of players with similar interests. I can only imagine they'll have cross DC available by this point. With that said, I'm extremely thankful because I feared a new NA Data Center would be shuffling around the current worlds. Been through that once and would rather not have to choose between friends and static.

This is my fear as well. Unless the new oceanic datacenter is connected to the jp datacenter for duty finders etc. The low population of the new oceanic datacenter will be a big problem. For new players it will be probably be ok since they will be busy with MSQ for a while but for those that are already at endgame and wants to do stuff with other people it will be harder unless you move with a big group of people that you do static dungeons and raids with. This is why when they opened the EU datacenters they moved some old populated world with lots of EU players into that datacenter to jumpstart the population.

I will also probably wait a few weeks or months to see how the population grows before deciding I guess.

[Krotoan]

This is my fear as well. Unless the new oceanic datacenter is connected to the jp datacenter for duty finders etc. The low population of the new oceanic datacenter will be a big problem. For new players it will be probably be ok since they will be busy with MSQ for a while but for those that are already at endgame and wants to do stuff with other people it will be harder unless you move with a big group of people that you do static dungeons and raids with. This is why when they opened the EU datacenters they moved some old populated world with lots of EU players into that datacenter to jumpstart the population.

I will also probably wait a few weeks or months to see how the population grows before deciding I guess.

I will guess that the numbers and feedback the FFXIV team has received that necessitated an entire new DC comes along with confidence there will be enough players to support DF. You don't invest in that kind of infrastructure lightly and you especially don't move it up if you don't expect players to migrate in large amounts.