Quote Originally Posted by Hamada View Post
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...