New data centers

[Fourbestintoner]

I mean cool, continue to screw over east coasters on those DCs who also have friends on the west coast, because it's completely normal for mmos to have communities span a continent.
Or we can compromise like every other MMO and place the servers in texas or somewhere close to the center of the continent.
Not to mention that this dramatic delay is an XIV problem specifically. I live on the east coast, and every other mmo I play has me at 40-120ms on average play with virtually no feelings of delay. None of these games have servers on the east coast.

Good thing I don't have friends on the west coast then. since I don't play on Balmung
Chicago would actually have been for the best a year ago, but now I would rather have an east data center if they are going to make a new one.
Either way is fine really, just don't keep them in Cali. But they will because I have no faith in them.

[Zumi]

I feel like if you do have a cross world static you may be effected if you want to play with same people. But they did say there will be free transfers.

[Hestzhyen]

Wonder if years of people complaining finally paid off... Will have to look at the details when they are posted. Hopefully this is a sign that "server limitations" will become a thing of the past just like "PS3 limitations" did.

[Dzian]

They are going to add new worlds too right? Having each dada center have half the number of worlds the current ones do wouldn’t be ideal.

Adding new world's wouldn't be ideal either the population isn't big enough to be split across even more world's..

Selfish me would like to see my server shifted back east though I've been on sargatanas since it was created when saronia is and lindbulm merged in 1.2 And ever since the data centred latency has been horrible for many of my friends. So I'd be happy if they put it back east.

[Genz]

Not sure if it's a good news for EU, with the population numbers that have been estimated by players. If SE want to dissipate any doubt, they better start communicating official population number instead of bs "14m adventurers"

[Vaer]

Sounds like they are going to pull some servers from the existing data centers and put them in then new datacenter, which means you could end up split up if you have a cross world group. World Visit is nice and all, but it doesn't allow you to cross datacenter boundaries AFAIK. (Primal can't visit Aether can't visit w/e they're calling the new one). So the problem then becomes housing. Guess we'll find out.

[FFgame]

I thought they said additional data centers, not just moving them. It's heresy no east coast servers yet.

[InkstainedGwyn]

To be fair, there's plenty of reason for another datacentre even without putting it in a different location - shift them around so that you don't have most of the populated worlds on one datacentre, and lighten the load a little by shifting a couple from each and adding a couple of worlds to the new one. Less load on the actual hardware.

[Bluvirus]

The new data center for NA and the world visit system is making my head hurt a little bit trying to figure out how it'll work out

[Kurando]

I picture it like every player that visits another world will have a time limit whilst they are there and would be kicked if inactive for more than 10mins (akin to Eureka) in order to keep the world that's being visited from being too overly populated at a single time. Of course I could be completely wrong but we'll find out in time.

The new data centres should help to spread the most populated worlds a little more evenly, but definitely queue times are going to take a hit so let's hope we get some nice jobs worth queuing up for!