New data centers

[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.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Yeah, because we have friends that aren't in the static that have friends on our home servers, and they have friends, and so on. Either way people are going to have to be abandoned if we go that route.
My FC is pretty much made up of transfers to balmung, and saying "lol jk you wasted your money" freaking sucks
Not to mention that most of us have houses that we won in the housing wars that we'd have to give up.
Being uprooted is not a solution to SE's poor foresight when it comes to server demands.

It was going to have to happen. If they are adding an east coast datacenter, there's no way to prevent a split.

[Tempest222]

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.

[Roda]

It was going to have to happen. If they are adding an east coast datacenter, there's no way to prevent a split.

When did they say they were adding an east coast datacenter?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

From what it sounded like they're going to be offering free world transfers to people so they can stay with their friends.

The issue with that is housing. You may be forced to give up your house because half your static is on another server. And in this game, getting another will be almost impossible.

[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"

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

When did they say they were adding an east coast datacenter?

It seems to be implied, or this doesn't make much sense to do. If they don't I'd be pretty disappointed tbh

[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.