Give OCE players a free transfer off their dead datacenter.

[Denji]

it's a little frustrating knowing the amount of time and effort it takes to set up a physical data centre -- let alone during a chip shortage -- and now the people on there are angry there's nobody to play with but i'd like to remind people that there was a not insignificant push from JP players who hated sharing their servers with OCE which is the actual reason why this happened.

they were straight-up celebrating when it happened. so before you go off blaming the people on there just try to remember that they weren't the only ones asking for this and it would've happened either way.

[Tigerlilley]

it's a little frustrating knowing the amount of time and effort it takes to set up a physical data centre -- let alone during a chip shortage -- and now the people on there are angry there's nobody to play with but i'd like to remind people that there was a not insignificant push from JP players who hated sharing their servers with OCE which is the actual reason why this happened.

they were straight-up celebrating when it happened. so before you go off blaming the people on there just try to remember that they weren't the only ones asking for this and it would've happened either way.

I think it's fairly well known that the OCE datacentre isn't for OCE players, it's to get rid of them for the Japanese.

[Nethereal]

I think it's fairly well known that the OCE datacentre isn't for OCE players, it's to get rid of them for the Japanese.

They know too much...

[Denji]

I think it's fairly well known that the OCE datacentre isn't for OCE players, it's to get rid of them for the Japanese.

Ehn.
A lot of posts have been "you get what you asked for!" when many were simply misled by — to be blunt — racist Japanese players who don't like sharing their servers.

I have a decent grasp of Japanese and honestly some of the things I've seen them say in the past is not only pretty terrible but it's very rare for the GMs to intervene. Don't even get me started on the things JP ff players say on twitter. (The jp user with the n-word retainer arguing it isn't racist immediately comes to mind...)

So all I'm saying is this isn't really OCE's fault.

[DeNada]

it's a little frustrating knowing the amount of time and effort it takes to set up a physical data centre -- let alone during a chip shortage -- and now the people on there are angry there's nobody to play with but i'd like to remind people that there was a not insignificant push from JP players who hated sharing their servers with OCE which is the actual reason why this happened.

they were straight-up celebrating when it happened. so before you go off blaming the people on there just try to remember that they weren't the only ones asking for this and it would've happened either way.

Well I mean no one is pointing a gun at players forcing them to move to Oceania servers or else?

At this point, we can likely conclude that Oceania servers are a failed experiment and could be due for shut down in the future of player population keeps plummetting, especially when players are allowed to transfer off Materia once the 90 days lock on period is up.

Queues are absolutely horrendous here when I had tank/heal queues exceeding 10 minutes during Oceania prime time.

Can't imagine many people wanting to stay on these dead servers except for those who just want to play house decorators.

[Shibi]

...At this point, we can likely conclude that Oceania servers are a failed experiment and could be due for shut down in the future of player population keeps plummetting, especially when players are allowed to transfer off Materia once the 90 days lock on period is up.

I think we might see a small number of very vocal 90 EW finished players leave, but I think the bulk of players are not old transferred characters, and they will stay and keep growing slowly.

However, if SE did close down the OCE datacentre then the JP players are going to see an even bigger influx of Aussie/NZ/Thai/Pacific players into their DC as all those many new alts - with NA mains - move into JP.

[VelKallor]

Queues are absolutely horrendous here when I had tank/heal queues exceeding 10 minutes during Oceania prime time.

You had to wait ten WHOLE minutes?

At this point, we can likely conclude that Oceania servers are a failed experiment and could be due for shut down in the future of player population keeps plummetting, especially when players are allowed to transfer off Materia once the 90 days lock on period is up.

We cant conclude anything of the sort. We are busy and happy, the almost zero ping gameplay is a revelation..now we know what we have been missing out on for years. I also seem to remember NA kicking , screaming and holding their breath till they turned blue when WOW OCE servers were announced.

Go ahead and transfer off if you wish, we have plenty more on the way.

Can't imagine many people wanting to stay on these dead servers except for those who just want to play house decorators.

OCE is growing slowly and will continue to do so, 6.1 will see a major influx. The servers arent being closed, and they arent being handed to NA.