reconsider EU DC split

[Yorihisa]

And how long does it work fine after new expansion?
Maybe some months and then PFs are dead especially if you wanna do something else than the newest stuff or if you dont do the newest stuff with a static or not at prime time in the evening.

Because everyone is looking at the situation now, there will be a flux of increased NEW PLAYERS with expansion. Not just returning players.

[ElainaMason]

Because everyone is looking at the situation now, there will be a flux of increased NEW PLAYERS with expansion. Not just returning players.

Maybe that could happen. But what will happen if it is not like that? Is SE really expecting that there will sooooo many new players in EU?

[Sunako]

If that graph is true, why we have less servers than any other datacenter, if we have more players than any other datacenter?

[Sheriyana]

If that graph is true, why we have less servers than any other region, if we have more players than any other region?

The reason Chaos is the most popular data center is because EU only has one data center, the NA players are split between two data centers, by combining Aether and Primal you'd have about 60k more players than on Chaos currently, and the Japanese player base is likewise split between three data centers.

Edit: Forgot Crystal was on the graph too, that makes it so there's about 140k more NA players than EU.

[Sunako]

The reason Chaos is the most popular data center is because EU only has one data center, the NA players are split between two data centers, by combining Aether and Primal you'd have about 60k more players than on Chaos currently, and the Japanese player base is likewise split between three data centers.

Edit: Forgot Crystal was on the graph too, that makes it so there's about 140k more NA players than EU.

So Chaos was not most populated DC if you combine NA DC after all. Eu have 120k players and na 263 / 2 = 131.5k each. Aether probably more because they have 13 servers into one DC.

[Sheriyana]

So Chaos was not most populated DC if you combine NA DC after all. Eu have 120k players and na 263 / 2 = 131.5k each. Aether probably more because they have 13 servers into one DC.

Yeah, that's it, I think Aether has always been more popular than Primal mostly due to Balmung and now Mateus as well and there being no alternative RP servers on Primal, previously you could count Gilgamesh in that with how it was THE raiding server for quite a while in HW before they added the crossworld party finder. Though even then Primal hasn't lagged that far behind.

[Kurando]

Once EU gets the two new world, that would of been 12 worlds on one datacentre. No current centre should have that many worlds on a single one, and so they would need to be split because otherwise I see a disaster waiting to happen. DDOS attack or SE side technical issue could effect the entire EU playbase, but you split them up you have the chance for less players to suffer from disruption.

[Deithwen]

I just wanna share this graph, updated with active accounts. I think it speaks for itself :



EU datacenters will be significally lower in population than their NA and Japan counterparts.

And this is just an estimation, what because people will migrate, especially raiders, who I assume will all move to Chaos, leaving one DC devoided of the raiding scene.

This needs to be considered by the Dev team.

There is no way this will work, as they will end up facing the same problems as before (heavy load on Chaos), but also creating new ones (Light devoided of competitive scene).

[KarstenS]

EU datacenters will be significally lower in population than their NA and Japan counterparts.

That is right. But before the split it still has the highest population of all datacenters.

I thin there is a reason this will be done not far away from the expansion (also the 2 planned servers for EU).

I think Chaos had the most issues during the launch of Stormblood because of this and a result could be the most amount of quitting players during the launch, compared to US and JP. So the plan to split and add 2 servers on top could be a preparation to do it better for the launch of Shadowbringers.

[jameseoakes]

That is right. But before the split it still has the highest population of all datacenters.

I thin there is a reason this will be done not far away from the expansion (also the 2 planned servers for EU).

I think Chaos had the most issues during the launch of Stormblood because of this and a result could be the most amount of quitting players during the launch, compared to US and JP. So the plan to split and add 2 servers on top could be a preparation to do it better for the launch of Shadowbringers.

I thought Chaos had less issues during the launch of stormblood than some of the American ones