[Request SE] Can please make cross-realm Aether and Primal?

[OwlBlackX]

Since Primal and Aether are both NA realms. Why can't be cross-realm?

I wanted meet people/friends from Aether. If we make party or chat.


SE, please make it.

[Lilseph]

I support this. I have friends in Primal that I'd like to play with.

[Rockette]

Eh you guys can keep Balmung. We're good, thanks.

[Paladinleeds]

As far as I know, while both are in America, they're in different server clusters, which means that extra latency will be added to play with people from the other and therefore that is why they won't add it.

[Ghastly]

It would decrease queu times by half (maybe) so if they can fuse them in some way it would be great!

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It would decrease queu times by half (maybe) so if they can fuse them in some way it would be great!

It wouldn't work that way unless one datacenter had mostly tanks/healers and the other had mostly dps. To reduce queues by half, primal would have to have 20 minute tank/healer queues.

At best, queues would be the same.


This is unlikely to happen, as the cluster links for the datacenters run at a much higher speed, likely 100gb, than the links from the clusters out to the world, which is 10gb or less.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Yoshida has expressed his desire to eventually open connections like this between datacenters, but also stated how difficult such a process is. While it may happen someday, I certainly wouldn't expect it anytime soon.

[Culfinrandir]

It would be a huge, huge undertaking & just isn't going to be possible in the short to medium term. If the game is recoded & the way it uses the network/servers made more efficient then it may be possible. That is likely to be a long way off.

[MOZZYSTAR]

Supporting this as well, even if it takes a long time.