Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

[Paranoir]

And people in Australia and NZ forget that they are still a minority compared to North America. There is very little reason to give NA players a shittier experience to make up for your infrastructure. If it were truly a priority, they could put a server in Sydney or something and let you guys connect over bailing twine or whatever you have for connections more easily. It's not called the "North America and also the other side of the world" data center. They really shouldn't be moving it to the West Coast to help a small, small minority.

No one is saying anything of the sort, just that moving it down form Canada would benefit us as a side effect of that move. The NA data center isn't for NA players first and foremost over anyone else, it was simply chosen as a site due to the the fact it has one of the largest concentration of players there that would benefit.

This may be news to you but the data centers are actually world wide with locations chosen where the majority will benefit, and players are encouraged to join the one that will give them the best experience.

Do you really think the small percentage of Aus/NZ players has anything to do with this if it would as you say make it worse for all the players in NA?

Also, the data center never would have been placed up north in Montreal in the first place if it didn't have to factor in the EU players.

[Lozza]

And people in Australia and NZ forget that they are still a minority compared to North America. There is very little reason to give NA players a shittier experience to make up for your infrastructure. If it were truly a priority, they could put a server in Sydney or something and let you guys connect over bailing twine or whatever you have for connections more easily. It's not called the "North America and also the other side of the world" data center. They really shouldn't be moving it to the West Coast to help a small, small minority.

Unfortunately you seemed to miss the part where it's not our infrastructure that's the problem. If I can connect to game servers on the US west coast at 120ms, and the east coast at 220ms. Doesn't it make sense that TX servers should be somewhere in between those two? Except that they aren't. Games with servers in TX are 350ms. That's not an Australian infrastructure problem.

I get it we are a minority, we always will be, and our base is split between the JP servers and the US servers, hell there may even been Australians on the EU servers. Currently with the servers on the east coast in Canada my connection just barely make the cutoff for what SE considers playable. My experience with MMOs that have moved to TX is that the game will become unplayable. Someone connecting from west coast to east coast is still going to be well under the limit of what SE considers playable, it won't effect NA players in any way except that hopefully you avoid the packet loss issues that plague the game right now. The long and short of it is that regardless of where they move I can't see NA players being affect much at all - Canada, SA, EU, AUS/NZ yes, and it's not just physical distance that's at play here, internet routing is not a simple matter of straight from one place to another.

[Erudito]

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this announcement. I just hope they move the servers into a strategic location withing the north american continent and not an area of the west coast where earthquakes are a possibility.

[LunaFaye]

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this announcement. I just hope they move the servers into a strategic location withing the north american continent and not an area of the west coast where earthquakes are a possibility.

I don't agree with moving the NA data centers to the west coast, something like Texas would have been much better, but when did we have the last major earth quake over here? Right it been some years, it's happening right after the servers are moving is most likely not happening. On the east coast you would have other disasters to deal with, either way I think the best solution would be the middle instead of limiting ourselves to black and white (east and west coast) only.

[BigRed5392]

I don't agree with moving the NA data centers to the west coast, something like Texas would have been much better, but when did we have the last major earth quake over here? Right it been some years, it's happening right after the servers are moving is most likely not happening. On the east coast you would have other disasters to deal with, either way I think the best solution would be the middle instead of limiting ourselves to black and white (east and west coast) only.

middle US = tornado ally.

heck A decent size tornado hit New orleans and baton rogue a month ago and we still dealing with the flooding that happen mnths prior.
1 tornado even hit behind house when my g.f was home alone. Her first tornado -_-;; lucky my job sent me home.

[Texa]

middle US = tornado ally.

heck A decent size tornado hit New orleans and baton rogue a month ago and we still dealing with the flooding that happen mnths prior.

As a life-long Texas native I'd have to note that it's extremely rare for tornadoes to cause major damage to structures that aren't housing, billboards, or stores. The only instance that comes to mind is the Tornado in Fort Worth 17 years ago that blew out a lot of windows downtown. All of those buildings are still there though, they turned the worst damaged one into condos. Texas can have flooding issues too, but that's mainly in rural areas.

A major plus for here versus the East coast is that we don't get hurricanes. They're always tropical depressions by the time they reach the DFW metroplex.

[ReplicaX]

middle US = tornado ally.

heck A decent size tornado hit New orleans and baton rogue a month ago and we still dealing with the flooding that happen mnths prior.
1 tornado even hit behind house when my g.f was home alone. Her first tornado -_-;; lucky my job sent me home.

Natural Disasters are pretty low on the totem poll when compared to the higher priorities needed for Data Center planning. No matter where you go, there is a threat. SE also has experience in dealing with them as the Company is in Japan. XI DCs have been their since 2002, besides the XIV DCs. Dealing with several Natural Disasters, the Company mostly dealt with Power Issues with the majority of the events.

Yet you do not see NY, Dallas, St. Louis, and Chicago. Major Backbone hubs with thousands of Datacenters and servers closing their doors. In fact over the years they are constantly improving those services and investing.

[Raikki]

Since everyone is speculating anyway: Square-Enix is already a big customer of MyInternetServices in the US. MYIS has datacenters in Los Angeles CA, Reston VA, and Dallas TX. Europeans would not see much of a ping increase moving to Virginia, so there would have been no reason for them to mention that, but there's at least cause to be optimistic that they decided to continue their business relationship with MYIS and go with Texas as a central-ish location.

[Ririta]

Why are europeans complaining? Don't they have their own servers now?

[Forerunner]

Has any more information been released surrounding this, specifically to potential transfers being offered to EU players still playing on the NA data center?