New data centers

[BambooShoo]

Honestly the main baffling thing is that they're splitting EU.

Last I saw, EU already has one of the lowest populations, and now they're splitting it in half, effectively making the game worse for everyone that plays there.

[linay]

Honestly the main baffling thing is that they're splitting EU.

Last I saw, EU already has one of the lowest populations, and now they're splitting it in half, effectively making the game worse for everyone that plays there.

They're probably adjusting for peak potential. Were EU servers affected by the problem at the beginning of Stormblood? Did EU servers had to use instances on lochs and possibly other SB zones?

[BambooShoo]

They're probably adjusting for peak potential. Were EU servers affected by the problem at the beginning of Stormblood? Did EU servers had to use instances on lochs and possibly other SB zones?

I understand that that's probably the reasoning, but it's a flawed way of actually solving that problem.

Because what happens 3 months after launch? Surprise surprise, the EU servers are a barren wasteland because SE took away 50% of the population.

I wouldn't be as worried if they could at least promise compensation for when this does occur, or a promise to merge the data-centers again.

Just a pure split is probably the laziest, and most harmful way to actually "fix" this.

[Driavna]

I understand that that's probably the reasoning, but it's a flawed way of actually solving that problem.

Because what happens 3 months after launch? Surprise surprise, the EU servers are a barren wasteland because SE took away 50% of the population.

I wouldn't be as worried if they could at least promise compensation for when this does occur, or a promise to merge the data-centers again.

Just a pure split is probably the laziest, and most harmful way to actually "fix" this.

IMO looks like SE plan is to allow cross duty/party finder between data-centers at some point in the future. Will be like macro servers but without merges so everyone can keep their house and names.

At least is the next logical step.

[Mansion]

They're probably adjusting for peak potential. Were EU servers affected by the problem at the beginning of Stormblood? Did EU servers had to use instances on lochs and possibly other SB zones?

BambooShoo did not reply so I will
Yes : we had instanced areas on Lochs and I think other SB areas (the Ruby sea I think but I don't remember well).
Yes Raubahn was a problem. So was the instance on the island on 4.2, the alphinaud instance on 4.3 on launch day.
We do have congestion, so it makes sense to split DC for the sake of congestion.

Now it's a big chunk of EU population separated, so we can't tell how it will be in terms of population before the split lands. We will see

[Legion88]

Were EU servers affected by the problem at the beginning of Stormblood?

Yes: We also had login queues between 10k to 25k in the early access period and the first week of Stormblood. Also people got kicked out of the queues due to overflowing the lobby server.

Did EU servers had to use instances on lochs and possibly other SB zones?

EU also had instanced areas in 4.0 which got erased with 4.01 i think and shortly after reintroduced for the Lochs.

Meanwhile the population on the EU datacenter wakes up from its hiatus and beginns preparing for Shadowbringers and the free starter edition from twitch prime flooded us with new players already "congesting" prefered worlds.

[Metalwrath]

Honestly the main baffling thing is that they're splitting EU.

Last I saw, EU already has one of the lowest populations, and now they're splitting it in half, effectively making the game worse for everyone that plays there.

There are 24 American worlds.Your playerbase is only double that of EU and we have 10 worlds and considering the fact that out of your server population Balmung is completly congested making up a good portion of those numbers i would say that EU worlds are probably more evenly populated than the US ones.

We've also seen a large spike in player base on a lot of EU servers since the WOW refugees came here in droves at Winter.A lot of those accounts will have caught up to current content by expansion release so this will replace any 'void' left in duty finder by spilitting the data centre.
There's also the fact that Eurekas release took out duty finder for 3 days here in EU where it only badly affected US data centre for half a day.
This should be an obvious indication that EU data centre is under more strain than others.

[Barraind]

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More evenly populated than Crystal (ir anywhere Balmung + any small servers are), but thats why people are really worried about Crystal on the NA side.

As of January:

Server / Relevant PoP / total PoP (Organized this way for highlighting where servers contribute to the "we dont want patch day instance issues" problem)

(NA-C) Balmung          9.700   18.511
(NA-A) Gilgamesh	7.839   12.542
(NA-P) Leviathan	7.265   11.743
(NA-A) Cactuar	        7.021   11.761
(NA-P) Excalibur        6.178   9.688	
(NA-P) Behemoth	        6.155   10.526		
(NA-C) Mateus	        6.149   14.854
(NA-P) Hyperion	        6.106   9.825
(NA-A) Sargatanas	6.012   10.135	
(NA-A) Faerie	        5.980   10.353
(NA-P) Ultros	        5.868   10.128		
(NA-A) Jenova	        5.657   10.891	
(NA-A) Midgardsormr	5.196   10.186
(NA-P) Lamia	        5.182   9.727	
(NA-C) Diabolos	        5.120   9.724
(NA-P) Famfrit	        5.046   11.498
(NA-A) Siren	        5.087   10.664		
(NA-P) Exodus	        4.837   10.678	
(NA-A) Adamantoise	4.789   9.330	
(NA-C) Malboro	        4.775   9.489	
(NA-C) Coeurl	        4.657   9.392
(NA-C) Brynhildr        4.625   9.431			
(NA-C) Zalera	        4.311   9.207	
(NA-C) Goblin	        4.057   9.403

(EU-H) Ragnarok	        7.109   11.495	
(EU-L) Shiva	        6.900   11.361
(EU-H) Cerberus 	6.745   11.104	
(EU-L) Phoenix	        6.621   10.975
(EU-H) Moogle	        6.429   10.990
(EU-L) Odin	        6.374   10.579
(EU-L) Zodiark	        5.727   12.246  	
(EU-L) Lich	        5.264   10.361	
(EU-H) Omega	        5.129   10.336	
(EU-H) Louisoix	        4.391   10.867

And together in one List:

	
(NA-C) Balmung	        9.700   18.511
(NA-A) Gilgamesh	7.839   12.542
(NA-P) Leviathan	7.265   11.743
(EU-H) Ragnarok	        7.109   11.495
(NA-A) Cactuar	        7.021   11.761
(EU-L) Shiva	        6.900   11.361
(EU-H) Cerberus	        6.745   11.104	
(EU-L) Phoenix	        6.621   10.975
(EU-H) Moogle	        6.429   10.990
(EU-L) Odin	        6.374   10.579
(NA-P) Excalibur        6.178   9.688	
(NA-P) Behemoth         6.155   10.526		
(NA-C) Mateus	        6.149   14.854
(NA-P) Hyperion	        6.106   9.825
(NA-A) Sargatanas	6.012   10.135	
(NA-A) Faerie	        5.980   10.353
(NA-P) Ultros	        5.868   10.128	
(EU-L) Zodiark	        5.727   12.246  	
(NA-A) Jenova	        5.657   10.891
(EU-L) Lich	        5.264   10.361	
(NA-A) Midgardsormr	5.196   10.186
(NA-P) Lamia	        5.182   9.727
(EU-H) Omega	        5.129   10.336	
(NA-C) Diabolos	        5.120   9.724
(NA-P) Famfrit	        5.046   11.498
(NA-A) Siren	        5.087   10.664		
(NA-P) Exodus	        4.837   10.678	
(NA-A) Adamantoise	4.789   9.330	
(NA-C) Malboro	        4.775   9.489	
(NA-C) Coeurl	        4.657   9.392
(NA-C) Brynhildr 	4.625   9.431
(EU-H) Louisoix	        4.391   10.867			
(NA-C) Zalera	        4.311   9.207	
(NA-C) Goblin	        4.057   9.403

[Barraind]

Datacenter / Active / total

Aether       47.581  85.862
Primal       46,637  83,813
Crystal      43,394  90,011
Light        30,886  55,522
Chaos        29,803  54,792

Of the 34 total servers:

Top 25%: 1 Crystal, 2 Aether, 1 Primal, 2 Light, 2 Chaos

Second 25%: 1 Crystal, 2 Aether, 4 Primal. 1 Light, 1 Chaos

Third 25%: 1 Crystal, 3 Aether, 2 Primal, 2 Light, 1 Chaos

Bottom 25%: 5 Crystal, 1 Aether, 1 Primal, 0 Light, 1 Chaos



Crystal says please halp.

[Metalwrath]

Of the 34 total servers:

Top 25%: 1 Crystal, 2 Aether, 1 Primal, 2 Light, 2 Chaos

Second 25%: 1 Crystal, 2 Aether, 4 Primal. 1 Light, 1 Chaos

Third 25%: 1 Crystal, 3 Aether, 2 Primal, 2 Light, 1 Chaos

Bottom 25%: 5 Crystal, 1 Aether, 1 Primal, 0 Light, 1 Chaos



Crystal says please halp.

Id imagine also that roleplayers spend a lot less time in duty finder making the issue even worse.