NA server is moving

[Kuzonoha]

I'm not going to rejoice for this just yet.

As an East Coast player, I've noticed a lot of times that servers will go straight to the West Coast and usually ping begins to hinder my gameplay. Even with the GCD, I can imagine worst case scenario that it can mess with my reaction time and as a consequence cause me to screw up mechanics, at least with other games.

Like someone said, I'm all for this if gameplay will be better for more customers.

[ElHeggunte]

If it means we no longer have to route through Level3, I don't care where the new data center is.

[Kahnom]

Servers have feet now ?

[Ama_Hamada]

If it means we no longer have to route through Level3, I don't care where the new data center is.

^
so much..
something about 10

[Stitches1974]

Servers have feet now ?

Moving, not walking.

[worldofneil]

I'm terrified for this move I play from the the UK (Europe) and have a nice stable 86ms on most days so naturally I don't want that to change.

But at the same time I am fully aware that the servers are designated NA servers so they probably want to do the most for players actually in that region. I wish I had known all those years ago that one day the EU servers would actually be moved to Europe and I would have moved to those before making friends/creating a FC/buying a house etc, but yeh...

[Vorx]

So i remember something like this happening back on FFXI, will we lose a few servers as they get merged or will this just be an upgrade of the servers?
Like i'm on Lamia, will i be put into a new server or something?

[Stitches1974]

So i remember something like this happening back on FFXI, will we lose a few servers as they get merged or will this just be an upgrade of the servers?
Like i'm on Lamia, will i be put into a new server or something?

Upgrade of the current data center and move it to it's new place. No merging that I'm seeing.

[Vorx]

Upgrade of the current data center and move it to it's new place. No merging that I'm seeing.

cool, glad to hear.

[Hyperia]

My guess is that they will move them to Chicago or Dallas to get the best coverage and if the EU move was any indication, we should prepare for 3 to 4 days of downtime.

Edit: The only kind of mergers I would be interested in seeing would be to make a super server where they merge the entire Data Center into a single entity. As things are setup right now though, I don't see that happening as Idileshire would nuke a majority of systems. Soo... that kind of merger wont happen due to PS4 limitations... PS5, please look forward to it.