New NA Data Center will be Dynamis

[Moonlite]

I am a little surprised they decided not to move any severs. Wasn't Aether kind of a mess?

[ForteNightshade]

I am a little surprised they decided not to move any severs. Wasn't Aether kind of a mess?

Not really? All the Data Centers have roughly similar populations. Aether just gets overcrowded on major patches because it has the highest volume of raiders wanting to all jump on the content as soon as it drops.

I suspect they didn't relocate servers because of the immense backlash it caused last time. I don't think they expected so many people to transfer right back to their main Data Center. Balmung basically lost its entire raid scene as they all relocated back onto Aether. Put simply, people really disliked server shuffling.

[ameliaw]

I am a little surprised they decided not to move any severs. Wasn't Aether kind of a mess?

I wish that they'd just add the new servers in existing DCs instead. If Aether is a mess(is it? IDK), that would fix it.

[Jojoya]

I wish that they'd just add the new servers in existing DCs instead. If Aether is a mess(is it? IDK), that would fix it.

Part of the login process happens at the data center level and the current loads are straining things. That's why they're creating a new data center just as they did for JP earlier this year (though JP only had worlds moved to it, no new worlds created).

I'm fully expecting SE to slap all NA worlds with the Congested status when Dynamis opens to force new character creation to happen on the new data center. Data center travel means friends will still be able to play with friends.

[TaleraRistain]

I am a little surprised they decided not to move any severs. Wasn't Aether kind of a mess?

No, we had queues with EW but so did everyone else. And when they split servers off to go to Crystal it was really unpopular. They're doing the smart thing this time by not again uprooting people from the DC they've established themselves on.