NA DC expansion delayed until nov 2022

[Shibi]

With less than a month until the go live, and knowing how much most busineses will take to test and configure new production server equipment, I wouldn't be surprised if the maintenance on the 25th, that replaced some of the servers in NA, took away from the ones that were installed and undergoing testing for the 4 new NA worlds.

At the following time, we will be performing emergency maintenance on North America Data Center.

We will address an issue where server equipment has been affecting the entire North America data center and will have to replace server equipment. During this period, North America Data Center will be unavailable.

If so, those now need to be reordered, replaced, configured, and tested. 90 days for that seems about normal.

[Moonlite]

Yeah I was wondering the other night if we really needed a totally new DC and 8 worlds. Then again they might be future proofing themselves for next xpac at which time it could get ugly again.

The number of worlds is kind of moot with the duty finder and travel. They are just taking the load off the login server and instance servers. If they could better design the login and instance servers we could have super servers. But that is probably not in this games life time.

[Mika_Zahard]

Think we need more housing servers than actual DCs.

[Ransu]

Strangely enough, I seem never to have issues (more or less) ordering new Ubiquiti equipment. Not that it compares to server equipment a DC will use but still need dem little semiconductors.
But on that note, It's quite long delivery of order cars nowadays. First-world problems I guess.

We're all over the place on what we use lol. The only consistent thing we have is our firewalls. Cisco switches are just on a forever backorder and seem impossible to get, but HP Arubas and Dell ON-OS switches are fairly easy to get ahold of. Dell servers are "fine" and refurbished ones are fairly easy to get, but anything else is kind of a "good luck" scenario atm.

And ya, cars are so in demand now that my 2021 trade in value is actually more than what I paid for it lmao. I've been honestly considering trading it in.

This will only affect the next expansion for those servers. SE, your location is still bad for east coast player in NA. Give us east coast servers for near future if you want profit.I'm not recommended this game for peeps in real life due the frustration I'm dealing with the game and meanwhile, other games have the options. World Of Warcraft and Lost Ark have it why not Final Fantasy 14. This game is a solid Multiplayer and it making the money. I just don't understand they won't do it even it cost few millions to make triple profit.

Meh, even if they did have east coast servers it wouldn't make that much of a difference given how the server tick rates work. That said, its not even remotely that bad. I'm in FL and my ping is around 80, its fine.

[Amenara]

Think we need more housing servers than actual DCs.

The two are intertwined. More DCs = more housing wards.

Kinda sad about it, was really thinking about moving, but in reality doesn't matter since I am barely playing now.

[Zer0ofTime]

lol, by the time they get the servers, people will be going back to check out the new WoW expansion

[Darthgummibear]

lol, by the time they get the servers, people will be going back to check out the new WoW expansion

[VelKallor]

lol, by the time they get the servers, people will be going back to check out the new WoW expansion

From the WOW forums:

There’s only 3 things to do in this game. Raid, m+, and pvp. Anything else is personal gain or a waste of time (looking at you, goblins and erpers). If you can’t participate in 1 of the 3 end game challenges, why are you playing?

Play WOW.

[Jojoya]

lol, by the time they get the servers, people will be going back to check out the new WoW expansion

And will be back again within a month once they've satisfied their curiosity. So far it sounds like the only interesting new content is the dragonriding and I can't see that as being enough incentive to keep playing WoW if the player is otherwise unhappy. Even the move back to an old school style talent system probably won't help as players pressure each other into using whatever ends up the recommended cookie cutter specs.

Those who have found they enjoy FFXIV will either stick with it or play both games. Those who decided they don't like FFXIV have probably already quit.

We still need the new servers to fill housing demand and decrease queue times for the 7.0 launch.

[Catwho]

We noticed last night during P3S that the server itself was giving us a really hard time. We were dealing with micro pauses while the tanks tried to position birds (they just stopped moving, even before they started casting) and we kept failing DPS checks we'd cleared last week. We're used to one or two players getting impacted by bad snapshots, but not all 8 of us at the same time.