No one cautiously optimistic about the East Coast data center?

[Stormpeaks]

If you missed it, during the Cloud Data Center Stress Test announcement during the keynote address at EU FanFest, it was mentioned that the physical location of the cloud data center is on the East Coast of NA.

Many around here have been unhappy with ping issues trying to connect to the NA data centers, which are currently physically located on the West Coast.

If you're currently upset over your ping, does this give you some hope that it will be better for Dawntrail?

Assuming they choose not to move exclusively to cloud data centers if the test is successful, do you think they might relocate a couple of the existing NA logical data centers to the East Coast since they have a facility there again?

It will probably make it worse for us from Europe playing on NA, so not much to be optimistic about I'd say.

As for both coasts, they'll just upset the other one and swap the places of both, swapping the upset at the same time from one coast to the other pretty much

[Nezerius]

It will probably make it worse for us from Europe playing on NA, so not much to be optimistic about I'd say.

It will only be worse for EU players if the East and West Coast Datacenters aren't connected in any way. Playing on an East Coast server would likely see your ping be reduced by around 50-60.
Back when the servers were hosted in Montreal, my ping was at a comfortable 105-110. After the datacenter relocation to the West Coast, that increased to 165-170.

But as Remish has mentioned, if there'd be an option to travel between East and West Coast datacenters, everyone would still travel to Aether for content anyway.

[Stormpeaks]

It will only be worse for EU players if the East and West Coast Datacenters aren't connected in any way. Playing on an East Coast server would likely see your ping be reduced by around 50-60.
Back when the servers were hosted in Montreal, my ping was at a comfortable 105-110. After the datacenter relocation to the West Coast, that increased to 165-170.

But as Remish has mentioned, if there'd be an option to travel between East and West Coast datacenters, everyone would still travel to Aether for content anyway.

Yeah that's my bad I'm extra tired and I misunderstood east coast and west coast... lol... so yeah it'll be a good thing for us europeans on NA then, works for me.

Agree with the Aether thing though, the same thing will just happen again, Dynamis hasnt even filled all 4 worlds that were created (Seraph is ok, the other 3 are just absolute deserts), and they are adding 4 more in the future, plus another DC then for this cloud thing, it's just spreading the community at this point and I really dont think the game needs it at all, it's detrimental to the active dc's health.

[Poporito_Popoto]

Yeah that's my bad I'm extra tired and I misunderstood east coast and west coast... lol... so yeah it'll be a good thing for us europeans on NA then, works for me.

Agree with the Aether thing though, the same thing will just happen again, Dynamis hasnt even filled all 4 worlds that were created (Seraph is ok, the other 3 are just absolute deserts), and they are adding 4 more in the future, plus another DC then for this cloud thing, it's just spreading the community at this point and I really dont think the game needs it at all, it's detrimental to the active dc's health.

You're still not understanding what this 'cloud thing' is.

[Zarkovitch]

As a east coast player, I'm extremely curious how those servers will work in terms of gameplay. Even tho it's just temporally, It can be good alternative to implemented servers from a lot other regions if goes well for SE and players.A lot peeps say Aether is still king, the reason why is all servers are in same location. If there one on the east they will lose a chunk of players easily. Y'all forgot there a lot of North American east coast players, south american and europeans plays in NA. If there a advantage to cheese mechanics and have smoother gameplay, players will jump boat easily.