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

[Pibz]

They need to improve their netcode to facilitate , at the very least, say having 12 servers per logical data center in the EU data center instead of 8 per data center. This is beyond technically feasible (it just requires work, of course) and consistently increasing segmentation of the playerbase could lead to some serious and very possible issues if either the population numbers dont increase or, worse, if they dip. Can further increase phenomena like data centers that are focused and concentrate content like PvP, also hinder static creation overall and on and on . A possible disaster waiting to happen, that is completely possible to be accounted for if the proper measures and work is put towards it.

failing all else there is just about Z E R O reason (and no, "our old bad netcode can't handle it" is not a valid reason) for the game not to have cross logical data center (still keeping physical restrictions) duty finder or even party finder matching. Devs please don't do this.

[KitKatnip]

Don't forget they are re-opening sales - if people don't willingly move to the new OC datacenter there's nothing stopping them from making it the only data center new players can join.

[Markfresh]

Is home world transfer 25th or 26th?

Just saw this on there site , or am i missing something?

Recommencement of the Home World Transfer Service
"Due to server congestion following the launch of Endwalker, the Home World Transfer Service is currently suspended. However, with logins becoming less concentrated due to players making progress, and the Oceanian Data Center now ready, we'll be resuming the service on Wednesday, January 26, 2022 (JST)."

[Karious]

What's preventing them from increasing the player capacity on existing worlds? I just want to be able to play on my world with all my friends without waiting in a queue because no one wants to move to a new server. Surely it can't be that hard to upgrade existing worlds instead of further dividing the player base among more worlds???

[seida]

Tonberry and Kujata will not be moved to new oceanic data center to jumpstart the population there? Sad

A lot of us on Tonberry do NOT want to move. People like me are in Japan. A lot of others are in SEA rather than Australia and would get worse ping to the new DC. No need to force it on anyone.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

There is no reason why cross-region DC travel shouldn't be allowed realistically.

I want to be able to have my homeworld with US friends, but play on EU servers when I want to bust out MCH or do static raiding groups.

[DBriggs304]

I can't belive some people still find stuffs to complain about amid the new servers going up. For some the cup truly is never full.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

[Larirawiel]

What's preventing them from increasing the player capacity on existing worlds? I just want to be able to play on my world with all my friends without waiting in a queue because no one wants to move to a new server. Surely it can't be that hard to upgrade existing worlds instead of further dividing the player base among more worlds???

Unfortunately we don't know the backend infrastructure which SQEX uses for their servers. But when i see what trouble they have to get new servers then i assume that their backend hardware is very exotic. Maybe they use something like Itanium or SPARC or PowerPC architecture ... i don't know. If they use something like that then they should make a port to more common architecture like x86 or ARM.

Cheers

[Garet]

I can't belive some people still find stuffs to complain about amid the new servers going up. For some the cup truly is never full.

I can't believe people still finds time to complain about people who are just voicing their concerns. For some, complaining just seems to be their cup....

[Feronar]

Is home world transfer 25th or 26th?

Just saw this on there site , or am i missing something?

Recommencement of the Home World Transfer Service
"Due to server congestion following the launch of Endwalker, the Home World Transfer Service is currently suspended. However, with logins becoming less concentrated due to players making progress, and the Oceanian Data Center now ready, we'll be resuming the service on Wednesday, January 26, 2022 (JST)."

It depends on your time zone.