reconsider EU DC split

[Anzaman]

Friendly reminder on the current situation of Chaos DC : it's very laggy, and everybody knows that for a long time.
People have asked : do something about EU DC.

Then they will.
That's a sacrifice that has to be done.

People want more, without sacrificing any.

[Deithwen]

Friendly reminder on the current situation of Chaos DC : it's very laggy, and everybody knows that for a long time.
People have asked : do something about EU DC.

Then they will.
That's a sacrifice that has to be done.

Besides, if SHB appeals a lot of new players, at least world be less congested and we won't have maintenance every 2 weeks because "well haha, Chaos crashed"

If you're talking about DDOS, it has nothing to do with SE.

The servers themselves are not "very laggy" at all. Most the issues we had were due to Level 3 or DDOS, and having 2 datacenters will not change a thing about those problems.

[KDSilver]

I am not talking about DDOS at all.
We had a lot of unfortunate crash and lag on some major patch release.

People asking for the dev to do something about EU DC infrastructure isn't new.
They finally do something about it.

[alimdia]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but SE isn't a multi-billion dollar game company. Everyone seems to think SE have the same financial clout as Blizzard or Google/Amazon, the latter which really are worth billions, but SE can't just magically purchase new servers out of thin air.

There's no magic, they have been making a lot of money off the cash shop.

[Kurando]

There's no magic, they have been making a lot of money off the cash shop.

That doesn't mean they have enough money to spare such a venture. The MogStation cash might be for FFXIV only and nothing else in SE's portfolio, but the cash made from subscriptions can be redirected to any title they so please. For all that we know, in the long term the Mog stuff may barely balance out any losses from subs (whether they are redirected or it's just a decrease in the number of active players).

[Deithwen]

I am not talking about DDOS at all.
We had a lot of unfortunate crash and lag on some major patch release.

People asking for the dev to do something about EU DC infrastructure isn't new.
They finally do something about it.

The worst "crash" Chaos had was due to a power outage in Germany, which damaged the servers.

The heavy server loads on SB release and major patch were due to the instance servers being saturated. If anything needs to be done, it's on this side.

I don't think there is any major issue regarding the EU servers right now, as most of the problems we faced were not directly related to them.

[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.

[Malackai]

See now this is something I always raise an eye brow about. I log in most days and on average around 60-90 PFs active throughout the day (excluding late night time or days of new patch content), so at the moment all the scare mongering about the PF going to suffer even more I struggle to believe. Sure once the centres split, the PF will take a hit, but at the moment things are not actually that bad.

Atm I find the current PF situation disappointing to begin with (Looking purely from my personally perspective and the times I tend to play which are evenings and mostly weekends) I tend to see an avg of around maybe 10-15 groups per floor/Ex trial. And that's with a PF pool consisting out of 10 servers.
And yes there are days that it seems fine but I have noticed a decline in groups ever since aphascape released the sigmascape tier seemed decent for PF groups.

And maybe its just because its end of expansion I don't know but but I do find it at least slightly concerning.

Still I think SE outcome should not be based on making smaller things smaller, it should be based on long term solution and looking forward to the future so that if they need to split DC again the the raiding pool doesn't take a hit again Or again watching people getting split up and getting even more fragmented across data centers.

[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.