Quote Originally Posted by Cleanse View Post
What is the flaw in using the visitation feature to automatically load balance a bottleneck in the MSQ?
The instance servers are set by datacenter; not by world. So lets say there's a 1000 instances available to 5 servers in the datacenter. Adding another 5 servers will intensify the workload and make the bottleneck worse, not better, as more servers are now competing for those instances.

The 3rd data center split was done to alleviate the congestion; by distributing worlds across more datacenters, competition for the instance server naturally decreases. It's their "solution" to Raubahn EX/Sigmascape entrance EX issues that have been occurring throughout the expansion. I'd rather personally take a few days of congestion over fracturing communities, but from a business point of view I can see why they made this decision. it looked super bad on Stormblood release when 99.9% of the MSQ players were being blocked; I doubt they want it to happen again.