Give OCE players a free transfer off their dead datacenter.

[Tigerlilley]

I wonder why they made so many servers for OCE.
Probably woulda been better if they made a single one considering their population numbers

Apparently they were planning on starting with 3, then expanding to five. But with the extreme congestion problems the JP datacentre was having because of Tonberry, I think they panic rushed the DC open asap. I've said it before, but I'm pretty sure Tonberry's congestion issues wasn't just because of OCE players. SEA also have a massive community over there. Probably bigger than OCE too.

[hagare]

Apparently they were planning on starting with 3, then expanding to five. But with the extreme congestion problems the JP datacentre was having because of Tonberry, I think they panic rushed the DC open asap. I've said it before, but I'm pretty sure Tonberry's congestion issues wasn't just because of OCE players. SEA also have a massive community over there. Probably bigger than OCE too.

which comes to another thought I had.
Why make OCE instead of SEA DC xD
I'm 60% sure there are more SEA players than OCE.

[Shibi]

I'm 60% sure there are more SEA players than OCE.

SE know how many subscribers they have in each country, for a 100% fact.

[Songkla]

SE know how many subscribers they have in each country, for a 100% fact.

It doesn't help that SEA players cannot register the game in their own country. There is no option to do so. We either have to register in US or EU.

[Shibi]

It doesn't help that SEA players cannot register the game in their own country. There is no option to do so. We either have to register in US or EU.

Absolutely. The licensing of the IP is really muddied.

Most of us long term players thought this but unfortunately the loudest voices on these forums do not represent majority.

Weirdly enough, there seem to only be two threads asking for it that I can turn up, along with the fact that Yoshi visited the region back in 2014 and tried playing. This DC isn't as a result of the forum. That's for sure. The twelve only know the business case and why SE surprised everyone out of the blue with it.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...rs-Heavensward (2015)
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...better-latency (2017)

The Brazilians ask for it way more than the Aussies ever did.

[Tigerlilley]

I agree with you, Shibi. Theres a lot of people saying we asked for this DC so we should be happy with it. I'm thinking...did we?

I truly believe this DC exists to ease congestion from Tonberry and the JPN datacentre. Not because OCE players were begging for it.

I do hope the population grows for my friends there but with Ultimate coming up, no one who is hoping to raid for it is going to want to stay on OCE.

[hagare]

SE know how many subscribers they have in each country, for a 100% fact.

say that again when SEA can actually register in SEA.
SEA pop in SE server right now = 0
When we all know that's not the reality

[Tigerlilley]

which comes to another thought I had.
Why make OCE instead of SEA DC xD
I'm 60% sure there are more SEA players than OCE.

Most of us long term players thought this but unfortunately the loudest voices on these forums do not represent majority.