[To Devs] Transferring FC to upcoming EU datacenter

[HulveinBlitz]

This is a French article that contains a Yoshi-P interview.

The first question concerns the servers in Europe and Yoshi-P reply that the data will be copied from Chaos to the European data center. Even though it will take 2-3 days everyone can play afterwards.

Put this topic to bed.

Credit: Infamous on Reddit.

[Taika]

It would be great if we could get a community rep to tell us, the EU players currently playing on NA datacenters, how the server transfers will work when the current EU datacenters are moved to Europe, when this will happen, and is there a plan to implement a FC transfer system.

[Madepossible]

I hope that EU servers will have players that know how to communicate in English. I've had bad experience on Lich because everyone was talking/writing in French, German, Spanish and refused to speak in English. Even when I went into Duty Finder, it was horrible. This is why I am on a NA server instead of a EU server, if it may one day change -> I would consider transferring. The level of skilled EU players were not on par with NA servers either.

[Catwho]

Pretty sure the reason that the EU data center was set up in Montreal with no plans to give them a home in Europe was because, at the time, SE was daring to hope they might get half a million players world wide. They already needed to cover the equipment and hosting fees for two locations, planning for each one to hold between 200K-300K players.

When the game exploded in popularity, they finally had the justification - and the money - to open an EU data center actually located in Europe.

[Taika]

We now know that the servers will be moved to Europe mid-October, which is under 2 months away from now. It would be great if the community reps could give us some info about if there will be server transfer campaign, or any new server transfer options available at the time. I'm sure many EU Free Companies and individual players on NA servers would like to hear more about this so they can plan their transfers.

[Shori]

If there happens to be an EU FC on Midgardsormr hit me up so if this thing does come about in time Id like to tag along XD