They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[HyoMinPark]

but adding new worlds to current NA centres wouldn't of made much difference in the grand scheme of thing

I honestly think that it would have made some difference.

Because there’s talks already of large raiding FCs planning to move to Aether to be with the rest of the raiding community, and having 1 new server on each Aether, Primal, and Crystal would have given those FCs that are moving the opportunity to rebuild things like their FC house. As it stands now, unless they secure a house for their FC on a smaller server, they won’t have one; and they seem keen on not staying on Crystal because the raid scene is going to be comparatively smaller compared to Aether and Primal.

Same could apply to other FCs that have recruited members from other worlds that are now facing the decision to give up their FCs or to give up the static members that aren’t on their server. It’s a tough situation for some people, but I think at least 1 new server on each new DC could have helped mitigate and allow for rebuilding to some extent.

[Chooty]

Not completely behind the EU worlds being split though but having 12 worlds on one centre could be problematic...

Aether already has 13 worlds, and that's with both Balmung and Mateus being significantly larger than any EU server.

[Hestzhyen]

I sincerely hope what was announced is just the start of SE helping people out with the shuffle. Some players have had 4+ years to build relationships in their datacenter and now they're stuck between a rock in a hard place. I myself could go anywhere since I play solo now that all my friends and FC mates have quit, but I know I'd be peeved if I had a social network that was suddenly in peril.

That said, this move needs to be done. If we want SE to keep improving the game they have to improve the infrastructure that supports it. And if they have to take such a disruptive route to start the process then the results damn well better be worth it.

[Barraind]

They really need to add 2 fresh new servers to each current datacenter that only allows transfers from people being forced off, along with moving fc's and houses as is.

That everyone on the moving servers would select to move servers rather than move to Crystal would probably cause the same problems though.

But at least they would see that this is a horrible idea.


For reference, between my friends list (that aren't my server) static, crosworld linkshell and my recent contacts (people I do content with)..

3 people of 164 are also moving to crystal. 1 is balmung or mateus.

There is no silver lining here. Losing 3 of the most active party finding /raiding servers to gain 3 of the lowest pop servers from primal.

That's fucked.

[DuskTS]

Sayonara Moogle, you will be missed I'm sure.
Also goodbye to the raiding population on Odin and Phoenix.
You did it SE, you saved the EU data center!

[DracotheDragon]

when it was announced my FC leader pinged the discord saying that they might move to another server so i might be left behind on balmung this news is a bit ehh, i don't like the idea of most of my friends leaving the datacenter,

the main way i can see this being mitigated is after a while they add in the ability to do dungeons and PF cross DC for a whole region that way even though were on separate data centres the instance dungeons are all connected.

[Khalithar]

Put me in the “my static got screwed over!” Club.

[hours]

In addition to free server transfers, they should give every active account a story and level skip thinger so that people can have the option of continuing to raid with their statics on alt characters. It's still an ugly solution, as maintaining more than one character is a pain, but it does not hurt to have more choices available.

[Nalien]

So would I be correct in assuming the reason behind this is likely the World-Visit feature? I can see that adding extra stress to the servers that would require such a split... If so... Honestly I can live without that feature, when you spirit away half my friends like this it's already a fairly redundant feature anyway... Delay this whole mess until you can work on a cross-data-center feature that effectively removes the negatives of this change...

[DracotheDragon]

So would I be correct in assuming the reason behind this is likely the World-Visit feature? I can see that adding extra stress to the servers that would require such a split... If so... Honestly I can live without that feature, when you spirit away half my friends like this it's already a fairly redundant feature anyway... Delay this whole mess until you can work on a cross-data-center feature that effectively removes the negatives of this change...

i don't think its just the world visiting feature, Harken back to the days of yore, known as... the storm blood launch, where balmung was so full of players the server broke, and took the data centre with it, then remember 4.3 where balmung broke, due to the server over stressing itself, the dc split seems like a way to lower overall stress between the data centres.