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

[Rin_Sato]

I noticed Primal has fewer servers than Aether, so I thought why not move 1 of them to Primal, putting both of them at 11 each?
Maybe it would help alleviate server load so we have emergency maintenance less frequently?
And why can't people in the same data center play with anyone outside of it?
Is this a design choice?

Would you prefer balmung or gilgamesh moving to primal?

[Stitches1974]

Neither. I like it the way it is.

[GMERC]

And why can't people in the same data center play with anyone outside of it?
Is this a design choice?

Yes, that is the entire reason for Data Centers existing.

Would you prefer balmung or gilgamesh moving to primal?

All a stupid move like that would do is move the "server load" to Primal Datacenter, only it would be worse than anything Aether currently experiences.

[Canadane]

I'd prefer to stay far away from both Gilgamesh and Balmung.

[Riardon]

Illuminati and Half Life 3 confirmed.

[Bixillarla]

If you want the Balmung server on your data center be my guess, won't miss it one bit. Too many creepy role players for my liking.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

As a player on Balmung with friends on Midgardsormr I do not want those servers moved to another datacenter...


If that happened, I couldn't cross world Party Finder with them!

[Fourbestintoner]

Aether is a quarantine for Balmung and Gilgamesh, keep it that way.

[enthauptet]

Don't forget about the mythical Twintania server on primal listed in the launcher lol.

[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.