Datacenters: A Plea For Community Building, Not Fracturing

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

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?

Not exactly, it will add new infrastructure in the form of 50% more lobby and instance servers to accommodate a whole new datacenter (as each datacenter requires its own). So thats at least an improvement there.


As for the "SE is being cheap" part. I agree, but not financially. I believe they are being cheap with time, as any kind of effort to do this would require a massive amount of manhours to rebuild. It would also take the people away from the improvements we ARE getting in terms of QoL for backend and the like. The difference between now and what the game was like at launch is vast, however much people like to say "they havent made any improvements at all!"