Why are there an uneven of servers in each data center?

[Vaer]

During launch there used to be only one datacenter for NA/EU and one for Japan but we ran out of instances (You would queue with a full party but would have a queue time since there were no available instances) so they spun them off into more data centers which is what we have now. Perhaps then Primal had more players per server than Aether did.

It's more a problem of the weird loopholes of getting into (apparently) full servers by server transferring to them making them overpopulated.

[NolLacnala]

+1 for moving Balmung to their own RP datacenter

By themselves

Forever

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

+1 for moving Balmung to their own RP datacenter

By themselves

Forever

And then let all the whining over increased queue times start. Would laugh for ages.

[CyrilLucifer]

And then let all the whining over increased queue times start. Would laugh for ages.

No, not really.

There are plenty of other people on the datacenter. And Primal gets on just fine without a Balmung-sized server.

[Edewen]

now that they have released cross world pf with the express purpose of getting people more options to form groups and statics to clear content, i highly doubt they would move any servers to a different datacenter breaking up groups

[Sakuraluna]

I think if SE were going to do this, they'd want to even out population rather than server count. Throwing the high pop servers onto another data center would just be shuffling the problem around unless that data center was significantly less populated, which I doubt Primal is.

I'm thinking the uneven server count probably resulted from them trying to keep data center populations as even as possible at the release of 2.0 and certain servers just expanded way beyond expectation since then, but it would take money and likely upset things too much within the community to just start throwing servers around now.