Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

[Stitches1974]

Will SE be putting anything in place to keep spoilage from happening when people can't get on to give attention to things going on over the downtime period of up to 48 hours? (I believe this probably only pertains to growing things in a garden, but there might be other stuff too.)

Just don't have anything in the garden when down time starts. The date and time have been released.


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Aether / Primal Data Center Worlds
From Monday, May 15, 2017 12:00 a.m. to Wednesday, May 17, 2017 12:00 a.m. (PDT) * 48 hours

Elemental / Gaia / Mana / Chaos Data Center Worlds
From Tuesday, May 16, 2017 12:00 a.m. to Wednesday, May 17, 2017 12:00 a.m. (PDT) * 24 hours

[Lexia]

Will SE be putting anything in place to keep spoilage from happening when people can't get on to give attention to things going on over the downtime period of up to 48 hours? (I believe this probably only pertains to growing things in a garden, but there might be other stuff too.)

They don't really need to as it be the players fault, since the giving like a 3 week notice about what going to happen.

[ReplicaX]

Maybe to NA players they are good about compensation. Never happened to EU players.

Yes it did, perhaps if you actually looked it up:

As compensation for the maintenance, those who meet the following requirements will have their subscriptions extended by the number of days the maintenance lasts:

Service accounts containing characters on the Worlds within the Chaos data center (Cerberus / Lich / Moogle / Odin / Phoenix / Ragnarok / Shiva / Zodiark) before Friday, September 18, 2015 at 9:00 (GMT).
Service accounts with an active subscription.

Folks that transferred from none of the above had no downtime.

Also:

For players outside Europe who have characters on the Chaos data center, Square Enix ask that you try it out. If you experience latency issues, you will be allowed to transfer from Worlds within the Chaos data center to Worlds within the Elemental, Gaia, Mana, Aether, or Primal data centers free of charge for one week.

[Aronys]

For players outside Europe who have characters on the Chaos data center, Square Enix ask that you try it out. If you experience latency issues, you will be allowed to transfer from Worlds within the Chaos data center to Worlds within the Elemental, Gaia, Mana, Aether, or Primal data centers free of charge for one week.

How is this benefiting EU players again? NA players got free transfers, EU players aren't getting free transfers. Nor did EU players get free transfers to EU servers then. Please explain how it's benefiting us. I'll wait.
If you looked at the forums in the past year, they still haven't compensated for the lousy campaign they did for the maid outfits. NA got it easy. Really easy. EU didn't even get it as a whole and the ones who did, had to go through hell to get it. Again, how are EU players getting any compensation?

[ReplicaX]

How is this benefiting EU players again?

EU Players received a brand new multi-million dollar DataCenter located within the EU. Just because some players chose not to move is their personal preference. You cannot disregard the millions spent to improve the majority of the EU with their own dedicated DataCenter physically located in the EU.

Many players seem to forget that when ARR released, Chaos DataCenter was always the recommended servers for EU players. Due to primetime hrs of play and language concerns. When Chaos received its own location in the EU there was no fees for existing players on the DataCenter.

I personally see no reason why players should be compensated when they personally decided not to go on the recommended servers. The same goes for NA players that did receive free transfers. I was against it from day one because again it was their personal choice.

So we are in agreement on unfairness. However, I believe personal choices against recommendations on all fronts should not be compensated, period.

The maid outfit is a completely different issue and I agree with the EU players. I understand SE wanted to work with an EU based company. However, the agreements and requirements of the campaign and execution was horrible. Really wish they worked with Amazon or more a established company with promotions like the other campaigns. With how badly it went, I personally feel every EU based account that was active during it should receive the items, period.

[Commander]

Will this change allow for character creation again on high traffic servers? Especially the servers that have been more-or-less closed for creation since the launch of ARR?

Apologies if this has already been brought up. I searched, but didn't really find though. So maybe I missed something.

[Sai_Arakaki]

Well if this helps with Stormblood, then I'm all right with it. I pretty much live around the middle of NA, so I'm praying my ping doesn't get worse than it already is.
Haha... I'm excited and worried at the same time XD

[Oukanna]

So far i am from the UK and playing on the Primal data center. Its been quite good, latency never an issue (only weird thing i found was titan ex timings but that could have been my crappy reactions ;p ) Lately i have been disconnecting a lot though.

Hopefully the move won't change anything horrifically, however if it does would we get the chance to move for free?

[Aronys]

So far i am from the UK and playing on the Primal data center. Its been quite good, latency never an issue (only weird thing i found was titan ex timings but that could have been my crappy reactions ;p ) Lately i have been disconnecting a lot though.

Hopefully the move won't change anything horrifically, however if it does would we get the chance to move for free?

Nope. We don't get free transfers to EU servers. Ever. Only available to NA players who transfered from EU servers when they moved those.

[WolfRawr]

I'm actually very scared of this move i mean for NA players would be nice but what about those who are not in NA and play from South America for example? I'm super scared actually i really hope it doesnt affect me that much or it doesnt affect me at all.