Datacenters: A Plea For Community Building, Not Fracturing

[Hamada]

As I have said in another thread regarding the third NA DC:

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.

Also the fact that players on balmung of all places are the ones complaining is hilarious. It and Mateus will be in Crystal together anyway.

As I have said in another thread regarding the third NA DC:

This wouldn't have happened if SE managed thier servers and housing better. People did not really want to move because it meant losing a house and other things. I find it hilarious that someone from the balmung exodus server are mocking people from balmung for SE's short coming when addressing their own server problems.

How can you blame the player base when SE completely opened balmung in SB not to long ago? defeats your argument. Stop blaming the playerbase for SE's bad management.

For the topic, I am sure one data center would be possible if they actually upgrade their servers and netcode. But no, lets overburden the servers with pointless repeated data exchange because rushing out 2.0 was more important, and it is more important to save money so lets never address that.

[Cleanse]

As I have said in another thread regarding the third NA DC:

This wouldn't have happened if SE managed thier servers and housing better. People did not really want to move because it meant losing a house and other things. I find it hilarious that someone from the balmung exodus server are mocking people from balmung for SE's short coming when addressing their own server problems.

How can you blame the player base when SE completely opened balmung in SB not to long ago? defeats your argument. Stop blaming the playerbase for SE's bad management.

For the topic, I am sure one data center would be possible if they actually upgrade their servers and netcode. But no, lets overburden the servers with pointless repeated data exchange because rushing out 2.0 was more important, and it is more important to save money so lets never address that.

/bow People just echo chamber hate on Balmung (and PvP), when this will affect a lot of their friends, if not themselves in the end.

[Hyperia]

For the topic, I am sure one data center would be possible if they actually upgrade their servers and netcode. But no, lets overburden the servers with pointless repeated data exchange because rushing out 2.0 was more important, and it is more important to save money so lets never address that.

Looking back on it now, yes, it would have been nice for them to overhaul the code from the 1.x days to significantly improve the systems for 2.x+ but... they were doing triage with what resources SE could scrounge up for them to salvage the mess that they were given. Any other game company would have just shutdown the system and said screw it. SE didn't, nor did Yoshi but they lacked two critical resources that were necessary to overhaul the server systems and that was Time and Money. They had to get 2.0 out as soon as humanly possible. Yes, they had to make compromises, many compromises they wish they had not made but at the time, it was the best they could do with what they had. I know there looking at ways to improve the backend system, but it will be done incrementally over time, how long, nobody knows besides Yoshi and the Server team.

I'm not happy that I am going to loose friends, my static and acquaintances I have made on my old DC. Nobody wanted this, not us, not the devs, nobody. I have accepted the fact that this is happening and the best thing we can do now is to welcome those who are transferring and give a proper sendoff to those who are moving on.

Maybe in 2020, cross DC groups / chat / visits will become a thing. Its something for us to add to our wish list now so the Devs can start working on it now and present it to us at Fanfest 2020. Who knows, maybe at Fanfest 2024 we will be shocked that the devs are merging all worlds into a mega-server that can support the entire population in a given geographical region. Wouldn't that be something...

[SomeRandomHuman]

As I have said in another thread regarding the third NA DC:

This wouldn't have happened if SE managed thier servers and housing better. People did not really want to move because it meant losing a house and other things. I find it hilarious that someone from the balmung exodus server are mocking people from balmung for SE's short coming when addressing their own server problems.

How can you blame the player base when SE completely opened balmung in SB not to long ago? defeats your argument. Stop blaming the playerbase for SE's bad management.

For the topic, I am sure one data center would be possible if they actually upgrade their servers and netcode. But no, lets overburden the servers with pointless repeated data exchange because rushing out 2.0 was more important, and it is more important to save money so lets never address that.

The player base is just as guilty sadly. It's not all the fault of one side. It's from both sides. A lot of people hate on Balmung because when that server crashes the whole DC, we ALL lose sub time. Not just the server, but the whole DC while its clear that people on Balmung are saying its tech related. Many tech savvy people here on the forums have tried to explain the actual expenses of hardware upgrades. Especially when SE has said they don't wanna have to rebuild their infrastructure from the ground up.

So by trying to force SE to upgrade the servers, SE is executing their last ditch effort to relieve stress: forced moves. The community brought it upon themselves. I'll be losing touch with a few friends, but guess what? That's what things like discord are for.

We're too far in to get SE to change their mind. You just have to accept it. If you wanna try to make a change then you have to speak with your wallet.