Quote Originally Posted by Deithwen View Post
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.