Will you transfer to the new worlds next month?

[dapperfaffer]

what are the severs and what data centers?

[GeminiReed]

The two communities I've been most heavily involved with in the past have effectively collapsed. The details aren't important but I don't have any strong ties to keep my focus on my current DC. I've been prepping one alt to make the move and will consider moving a few more. This is contingent on if existing NA worlds are migrated over and if I have any alts there.

[Renalt]

Nope. I'm in Balmung where the party never stops.

[Zarkovitch]

As a NA player no for EU servers, even they add new servers for NA. The problem is still the same for me. The damn location. If they have east coast servers for NA there be chance I would move.

[Wanzzo]

As a NA player no for EU servers, even they add new servers for NA. The problem is still the same for me. The damn location. If they have east coast servers for NA there be chance I would move.

This is the biggest problem to me. I play in Brazil and the difference between the 2 places (EU and NA) is almost nothing nowadays. I reach 190ms as my ping on NA servers and 220ms on EU servers.
But, when I use a VPN service, I gain more responsiveness at EU servers (something around 130 to 140ms on EU servers while reaching 170 to 180ms on NA servers).

That's why I'm migrating to EU with those new servers and enjoy the incentives.

But, if they create east coast servers for NA, all this would be very different! (In my testings, this should give me 100 to 120ms only).
Sadly, they will keep things like this forcing me to play in a more discrepant time zone.

[Bunnycake]

I'm specifically talking about the NA servers launching in august.

I should have mentioned it in the title, sorry.

Wait, what? I didn't hear about that one.

[Wolfsbane706]

Yeah, absolutely. A lot more opportunities happen on new servers compared to the already established ones. I've already packed up my apartment for the move.

[Rhea_]

Yep. Already spent a week on Sagittarius and created a fc and just waiting on able to transfer my main so I have some funds to grab a house when those wards opens.

[Jojoya]

what are the severs and what data centers?

All we know right now is that NA will have a new data center opened in August with 4 new worlds. An additional four new worlds would be added sometimes next year. None of the existing NA worlds will be moved to the new data center.

[Seger]

Wait, what? I didn't hear about that one.

Currently, the North American Data Center houses three logical data centers and 24 Worlds (an 8:8:8 configuration). In order to cope with a drastic increase in player population, we are planning a two-phase major server expansion. Due to the global shortage of semiconductors, it has taken considerable time to procure server equipment, but the schedule calls for the first phase to be implemented around August 2022, with the second phase to follow in the spring or summer of 2023.

In the first phase of the expansion, scheduled for August 2022, one new logical data center will be established and four new Worlds will be added under it. In the second phase of the expansion, we plan to add four more new Worlds under the newly established logical DC, resulting in a four-logical-DC configuration of 8:8:8:8. While we had originally hoped to add all eight new Worlds at once in August 2022, the aforementioned semiconductor shortage has dictated that we introduce the upgrade in two stages. Again, we ask for your understanding and patience in this matter.

In addition to the above, we are also considering a yet-larger-scale upgrade at the time of the next major expansion (Patch 7.0). We will be sure to update you with further details regarding this as our plans take shape.

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