Datacenters: A Plea For Community Building, Not Fracturing

[ErryK]

ITT: Doom and gloom, news at 11.

[Derio]

Pretty much
Aether will be raiding.
Primal- Casuals.
Crystal - Role playing

Those titles are already starting to stick when people were talking about it at fan fest.

[thegreatonemal]

Pretty much
Aether will be raiding.
Primal- Casuals.
Crystal - Role playing

Those titles are already starting to stick when people were talking about it at fan fest.

That will be the fault of NA players then the bottle necking and future proofing for the game is fixed with this new data center. Now if teh great wave people are saying is going to happen occurs its as simple as locking aether a day into the transfer period.

[Zumi]

SE should look into newer tech that other games use like mega servers. They can expand areas to as many zones, and instances that are needed based on player demand. That way you can play with everyone in their region. With a 3rd data center and the way the game currently works it feels like we are going from being split in half to split into 1/3 of the people we can play with.

[dragonseth07]

I'm REAL sick of DC'ing. Split up the data centers more.

[Nalien]

I'm REAL sick of DC'ing. Split up the data centers more.

I'm REAL sick of long queues and empty party finder. Merge up the data centers more.

[Kurando]

I'm REAL sick of long queues and empty party finder.

Unless you are trying to queue at 3am when it's dead or you go as DPS, then there shouldn't be long queues at all. Same with the Party Finder, I see dozens up every day, but if something isn't there for what you need, make your own or pre-form. Just don't lie and say it's empty.

[aesteval]

This wouldn't have happened if the balmung population wasn't so stubborn about staying on their server despite all of SE's attempts to balance out the population.

Part of the additional datacenter is due to events like Raubahn Ex. Primal was also hit by Raubahn Ex. Raubahn Ex happened without Balmung's influence. The new datacenter is not *just* about Balmung.

[ColorOfSakura]

Part of the additional datacenter is due to events like Raubahn Ex. Primal was also hit by Raubahn Ex. Raubahn Ex happened without Balmung's influence. The new datacenter is not *just* about Balmung.

Exactly. Balmung isn't the problem here - the problem is the game being too popular and needing more infrastructure to support it. Yes, Balmung was moved away from Gilgamesh because they're the two most populated servers on the game in terms of active players and splitting them up is a smart idea in general. But this was something that was a long time coming - Balmung isn't the sole factor of it.

[WaterShield]

Exactly. Balmung isn't the problem here - the problem is the game being too popular and needing more infrastructure to support it. Yes, Balmung was moved away from Gilgamesh because they're the two most populated servers on the game in terms of active players and splitting them up is a smart idea in general. But this was something that was a long time coming - Balmung isn't the sole factor of it.

Except this doesn't actually add any infrastructure. This is a move to more evenly balance people (see load balancing) across the same existing hardware (no new servers being added). That is not much of an investment at all.

Also how do you explain Arena Net's ability to do Mega server tech? Bethesda as well with ESO. Are they just that much better funded than SE? I find that hard to believe.

As many people before me have pointed out, the dated code SE is using is impeding their ability to grow the game. Rather than fix it properly, we are being given a band aid that can be completely invalidated by people transferring back to Aether and Primal.
Shortsighted at best. Purposely negligent at worst. Is it any wonder people think they are using the majority of the money from this game to bankroll their other operations?