Quote Originally Posted by SorrowsEnd View Post
It would be great if it were possible to add cross data center party finders. I.E myself on Aether being able to play with someone on Chaos. Being able to play with friends on any data center would be amazing and would make the game a whole lot better. It'll be a technical challenge but if possible I think it could make FF 14 a much better game.
Won't happen. That's why they are in different data centers. When the servers are in the same data center, they go through the same switching fabric, and thus there is negligible latency between the machines. When they are in different data centers, they have to go across the routers, so synchronization becomes impossible, especially if players are in Japan and Europe want to play with players in NA. Which direction is your data going? Circumnavigate in which direction?

The data centers in NA might have "next door" ip addresses, but that doesn't mean they are in the same building, or even in the same city. We only know where they are due to the trace logs.