New data centers

[BristolRuss]

Please dont separate balmung and mateus.
It will absolutely shatter my static and friend group D:

Balmung, Mateus and Gilgamesh all being on the same DC is one of the reasons they are likely doing this.

[Hestzhyen]

Balmung, Mateus and Gilgamesh all being on the same DC is one of the reasons they are likely doing this.

Leviathan too. Population is heavily lopsided on NA servers so they probably want to bust that up (for good reason). I expect a lot of pain and complaints when the details are announced. It sucks when your friend circles are broken up so I hope SE is ready to ease the pain if they try to even out the population by shuffling the servers around. The community might not recover if they handle it poorly.

[Dirwen]

Leviathan too. Population is heavily lopsided on NA servers so they probably want to bust that up (for good reason). I expect a lot of pain and complaints when the details are announced. It sucks when your friend circles are broken up so I hope SE is ready to ease the pain if they try to even out the population by shuffling the servers around. The community might not recover if they handle it poorly.

I have an alt on Leviathan and haven't experienced a queue to get in compared to Gilgamesh.

[alimdia]

Leviathan too. Population is heavily lopsided on NA servers so they probably want to bust that up (for good reason). I expect a lot of pain and complaints when the details are announced. It sucks when your friend circles are broken up so I hope SE is ready to ease the pain if they try to even out the population by shuffling the servers around. The community might not recover if they handle it poorly.

Levi isn't in Aether though, the main problem here is Aether, it has quite a few thousands of players over Primal.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...a_113/e8yyamz/

5 of the 6 top populated servers are in Aether, also neary every Chaos server is more populated than the remaining aether/primal servers.

What you should expect for aether is that at least 3 of those 6 top servers will be moved to the new data center to balance the load. Lower pop servers don't necessarily have to move if they plan to add new servers to the new dc.

With chaos they only have to move the top 3 and mix it with new servers and the load should be fine.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I don't entirely see that as an issue. As people will likely be leaving the world as you come in to rejoin your static. So, I can see houses opening up on worlds as people keep shifting around till their static is together again.

Not nearly enough houses will open up even if we're being generous. Bear in mind, a lot of people still have multiple houses due to the whole grandfather system. Which segues to my next point...

Leviathan too. Population is heavily lopsided on NA servers so they probably want to bust that up (for good reason). I expect a lot of pain and complaints when the details are announced. It sucks when your friend circles are broken up so I hope SE is ready to ease the pain if they try to even out the population by shuffling the servers around. The community might not recover if they handle it poorly.

If they're smart... they will add additional wards alongside what looks to be Ishgard housing. Furthermore, I would like to see them remove the aforementioned grandfathering and officially make housing locked to one personal and a FC. This would mitigate at least some of that pain. If they offer nothing but 80% compensation for your house (this should be increased to 100% btw), then they deserve a fair amount of backlash.

[Roda]

Balmung, Mateus and Gilgamesh all being on the same DC is one of the reasons they are likely doing this.

This is why i'm currently having HEART PALPITATIONS X_X