reconsider EU DC split

[Hacchan]

Rarely active on forum except at certain time and this time is have to voice my opinion on the future DC Split
Stop being silly and trying to ruin EU DC due to bad management.
Splitting the DC wont result on anything good but will just split the current playerbase which will either flow to one or another of the DC and kill any cross-world static that exist.
If you intend to do this, then you have to put in place a cross data-center PF option to address and fix those issue. As much as the free transfer sound nice, it split me from the few people i know on my server and relinquish my house or split away from my static after a good amount of time spent together raiding.

@KDSilver except those issue aren't entirely due to the server, they are due to SE poor management of the current servers and the obvious lack of interest in supporting EU properly. They refuse to make proper sacrifice, why should we make the sacrifice when the money we gave em is not properly invested back into FFXIV.

[xbahax92]

Whats the idea of putting all region datacentre's into a column each?

The reason EU DC is getting divided is because of the instance servers. Currently we have about 120k active players - and numbers will increase for sure (Expansion, 5.0 incoming hello?). If you believe people wont come back and start to catch up/prepare for 5.0 then go back to 3.4-3.5 and check the how the population increased. There have been enough posts about current population at given times. Google will help.

And actually if you cut the crystal DC into 2 pieces and add them on both current DC, you would get around 120k~ active players as well. Thats almost the same amount as EU. And guess which datacenters had least issues during Stormblood release? Japan. They have their player base splitted already into 3 data centers since the beginning and while they had difficulties at the beginning, after the maint to fix it - Japan magically solved their MSQ issue. I wonder why?

If new data centers are the only option to increase and ease the problems with instanced servers, for old and new players. Then, I am sorry but I vote for the split. I do not like to experience the same issue with Stormblood release/and actually "early access". There are a lot of people who take off from work, prepare everything to start playing the game non stop, the hype, the fun. I wish not to be on hold on my first day again as Raubahn Extreme gated every other content and made people waste hours in a single day.

[Chooty]

And actually if you cut the crystal DC into 2 pieces and add them on both current DC, you would get around 120k~ active players as well. Thats almost the same amount as EU. And guess which datacenters had least issues during Stormblood release? Japan. They have their player base splitted already into 3 data centers since the beginning and while they had difficulties at the beginning, after the maint to fix it - Japan magically solved their MSQ issue. I wonder why?

Yes, I wonder why. Maybe it was the exact same reason Chaos problems were also just magically solved after the maint to fix it.

[HapefullKorset]

Cut by half the population of the DC will be a nightmare in many aspects. Right now party finder and a lot of duties are already death during the night can’t imagine the loneliness after the split.

[Clover_Blake]

I'm actually worried about this too. Luckily I'm not going to lose any static myself, though it's really bad for people who will. What personally troubles me is the possible lack of people to do content with. Will queues suffer? I wonder if the census about EU servers is just wrong and SE knows better (???), otherwise I don't understand the meaning of this split.