EU Data Center

[Xoriam]

Hopefully they won't be on potato servers like the ones the game is currently on in Canada.

[Yshnal]

I don't think they need few days to transfer while shutting EU data center off? copy it to new data center then close the one in Canada when ready to play in new DC? w/e

Anyways happy to finally see real EU Data Center!

They need to bring them down to copy the data, because if they simply copy it and let us keep playing it would be outdated. Also, they'll need some time to test that everything went right (servers, data, etc.).

Of course, I'm sure that they might use incremental backups to save some time in the transfer of the data from Canada to Europe, but consider that they need a full day when they "simply" introduce a big patch, so keep that in mind when you think about how long it will take them to do this with all the data that they have to move, copy and verify. At least a day or two.

[Gamer3427]

Honestly as a NA player on an EU server, (I joined it on a recommendation), I was concerned about the prospect of an EU datacenter because I have satellite internet, (the only thing I can get where I live with a download speed faster than 5mbs, I currently average between 15-20mbs download speed with this internet though,) which due to the way such works I already have a natural .7 second lag/ping time. Because of this I have almost a full second less to dodge AoEs than other players, which results in me taking a lot of damage from attacks that already have short dodge windows. The prospect of adding more lag onto that had me concerned initially. But, apparently also because of how satellite internet works, I have the same ping no matter which server I connect to, as after doing some ping testing with the JP servers, I found it to be the same as when I ping the servers based in the US. Not really relevant to anyone who doesn't also use satellite internet, but it does bring up the concern about what will happen to all the current NA players on the EU servers who joined them because there wasn't any difference between the two sets?

[Kona4me]

They need to bring them down to copy the data, because if they simply copy it and let us keep playing it would be outdated. Also, they'll need some time to test that everything went right (servers, data, etc.).

Of course, I'm sure that they might use incremental backups to save some time in the transfer of the data from Canada to Europe, but consider that they need a full day when they "simply" introduce a big patch, so keep that in mind when you think about how long it will take them to do this with all the data that they have to move, copy and verify. At least a day or two.

Ya i think you are right here..
hope it comes with 3.1 & won't last more than 2 days :3

[Nadirah]

I'd prefer if they moved the NA center to California now that they don't need it on the east coast for the EU.

Make the Aussies a little happier.

[BreathlessTao]

Q89. Please tell us the progress regarding the EU Data Center.

A89. We've finished purchasing all the equipment, and we're currently in the process of setting everything up. We need to perform various checks moving forward, but we're planning to open it sometime this year and hoping to do this around the timing of Patch 3.1.

...and that's all we really know so far.

[Chessala]

[snip] Not really relevant to anyone who doesn't also use satellite internet, but it does bring up the concern about what will happen to all the current NA players on the EU servers who joined them because there wasn't any difference between the two sets?

They will either have to move servers or deal with it as all Europeans have done for the past 2 years. If they join a datacenter that is recommended for EU, thi is something they should have expected. On the other hand, on a datacenter recommended for EU, a EU player should not have to battle pings cause the servers are in the US. I won't be sad to ditch my WTFast sub after the move.

For US players that stay on the EU servers: try WTFast to lower your pings!

[Felis]

I don't think they need few days to transfer while shutting EU data center off? copy it to new data center then close the one in Canada when ready to play in new DC? w/e

Anyways happy to finally see real EU Data Center!

The copying and checking need time. Sure, they can let the servers in Canada still run until the datas in the EU datacenter are ready to go online, but everything the players earned during the transfer phase will be gone.

[Nadirah]

When Blizzard relocated the AU servers to Australia it was pretty seamless.

Most of the stuff was done ahead of time and the server was down for a single normal maintenance cycle. No extra downtime.

[Stupiduglytaru]

3.1 i can finally play ninja in endgame xD