Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

[seekified]

Um... "We expect that the players most likely to experience a significant increase in ping times will be those in Europe playing on an NA data center World." - will this render endgame unplayable for people who are from EU and have been playing on NA servers since way before EU got servers of their own? This doesn't bode well.

The EU servers used to be on the same physical site as the current NA one, and we could play just fine back then. It shouldn't be very different, but obviously the latency will increase if they move to the west coast.

[Serilda]

I play with a relatively large ping and it's certainly not unplayable; you do need to learn to react even faster and some optimisations (weaving multiple abilities in one GCD, for example) might simply be out of reach. It does make you feel as though you're cheating when you play on a local world though and everything is suddenly easy to dodge.

I'm not affected at all by this particular relocation but if the staff acknowledge that non-NA players might struggle, perhaps they can consider running a free transfer campaign like the one for the EU datacenter? The relocation sounds like a very good idea overall.

[Canadane]

People will likely figure out where the servers are as soon as they connect. It's not like you have exactly hidden the current servers locations. Why hide it now?

[Texa]

People will likely figure out where the servers are as soon as they connect. It's not like you have exactly hidden the current servers locations. Why hide it now?

It might be a contractual obligation that they don't directly disclose it.

That said, I wonder if this will hurt or help people play on NA severs in Australia or New Zealand? I guess there's no way to know for sure until it happens but Oceania players tend to get the short end of the stick fairly often already.

[JCharms]

It might be a contractual obligation that they don't directly disclose it.

That said, I wonder if this will hurt or help people play on NA severs in Australia or New Zealand? I guess there's no way to know for sure until it happens but Oceania players tend to get the short end of the stick fairly often already.

I get around 140-180 in every other game I play that has a west coast server, and 220-260 on east coast servers, but 380-400+ in this game. So it should help dramatically.

[BakedWeeb]

So excited to see the data center moved and upgraded! Thank you Yoshi-P and Co. for looking out for your NA players!

[Arksvalor]

It might be a contractual obligation that they don't directly disclose it.

That said, I wonder if this will hurt or help people play on NA severs in Australia or New Zealand? I guess there's no way to know for sure until it happens but Oceania players tend to get the short end of the stick fairly often already.

I'm dreading this also, they don't seem to really care for the Oceanic region the lag is fairly horrendous already without using a VPN like WTFast. If it's any worse where I can't do endgame content I'll probably be moving to a JPN server.

[Zojha]

If it's any worse where I can't do endgame content I'll probably be moving to a JPN server.

Can it get any worse?^^'

Montreal is already very far northeast on the continent. The distance to Australia and New Zealand will in all likelihood decrease, so the ping should decrease as well.

I doubt you'll get to see much of a decrease without VPNs however, because if VPNs are helping, it's usually not a distance issue as much as a routing issue.

[EUSerena]

...Montreal is already very far northeast on the continent. The distance to Australia and New Zealand will in all likelihood decrease, so the ping should decrease as well. ...

Well mostly EU players will be affected. Would be great if we could hear from the master himself on the location, and on the free transfer that I asked about.

[Arksvalor]

Oh that's good wasn't sure on the specifics.