[Data Center USA] Ping increased. Report your changes here.

[Sida]

The difference is you're choosing to place yourself in an exile with a higher ping. We didn't make you. You could easily move to a server with a better connection. Which, by the way, is exactly what I plan on doing if this is on the west coast.

Seeing how English server options are NA or EU they have had two bad choises to pick from...

[Youkulm]

Seeing how English server options are NA or EU they have had two bad choises to pick from...

There is a substantial english speaking community on more than one of the JP servers if im not mistaken.. so you are incorrect.

[savageink]

Tonberry is kind of the main English JP server. Not sure what other ones there are.

[Vhailor]

All of this is still somewhat uncertain. That said, if the location is in Sacramento, I think it's a large-enough shift that they should allow temporary free transfers both to (and from) the new data centre. It's the least they can do.

That wouldn't necessarily apply had they made a shorter (and arguably more logical) hop to, say, Chicago, but moving 3000 miles is significant. It makes the server newly-viable for people in Oceania, and completely screws people who were on it from the EU. It's not a relatively minor shift.

Speaking personally, though, I think a shift to Sacramento would be a tremendously stupid idea. It's not balanced for North America (just as Montreal wasn't), and this is supposedly the NA data centre. Dallas, Chicago, even Denver would have been far better choices from a geographical standpoint, and all three have perfectly adequate support infrastructure. Coupled with the lack of prior notification, and a lack (thus far) of free transfer windows, and this move just reeks of borderline-incompetence. Then again, so does most everything technical in regards to FFXIV, from the engine limitations, to the "too much character data" excuse given in response to a host of player requests, to now the (possible) server placement. Colour me completely unsurprised.

[Sida]

Tonberry is kind of the main English JP server. Not sure what other ones there are.

Server, not a datacenter. And yet DF is datacenter wide. So either they could queue only in English and have considerably worse queue times, or queue in all languages and end up in Japanese groups constantly.

[Stormbad]

As someone who lives within Sacramento County, wow. I can cancel my gamer VPN subs now.

[Ayerinn]

Speaking personally, though, I think a shift to Sacramento would be a tremendously stupid idea. It's not balanced for North America (just as Montreal wasn't), and this is supposedly the NA data centre. Dallas, Chicago, even Denver would have been far better choices from a geographical standpoint, and all three have perfectly adequate support infrastructure..

*Technically* if the NA region lumps in OCE players (which lets face it - OCE players almost always go for NA servers in any MMO I have ever played,) Cali actually IS more "central" than Chicago or Dallas...

[Fourbestintoner]

It would be such an idiotic choice, what would be the reason behind it? Getting rid of the aussies on jp data center?

[savageink]

Server, not a datacenter. And yet DF is datacenter wide. So either they could queue only in English and have considerably worse queue times, or queue in all languages and end up in Japanese groups constantly.

I guess it never bothered me when playing on Tonberry or Titan. I used to live in Japan. Plus if you are playing with a group it would be irrelevant. Lots of Aussie FCs on those servers. But I was just dropping a server name for people who were interested in English JP servers anyway.

[Gumbercules]

Totally! I'm pretty directly connected to a backbone, so I get playable pings to all 3 datacenters, but I know people who are basically stuck with dial-up or fast satellite uploads but crap down out on the boonies.

I think some people just have no idea how much empty space there is in North America.

in all fairness ive lived in actual cities in the US were the service is just shit since infrastructure doesn't get touched up, and why would it since most areas have no competition XD Recently some areas started to get revisited a bit at least, but that was cuz routing through cell phones was more manageable lol.