Datacenters: A Plea For Community Building, Not Fracturing

[xbahax92]

HOW? how does it effect someone who does not have a house vs someone that owns 700 + furnishings "equal"?

You want to talk about selfish? ok, whining about 2 weeks of congestion so we need smaller dead DCs just so some "Special snowflakes" (a term you used) don't have to wait for to access an instance while demanding others lose their house and friendship ties is how I define selfish.

Yep I value "having a good start and less problems" during an expansion higher than people who could lose their plots. There are people like me who are working, having a real life even and some even reserve their few days for vacation to play the game during early access. Its kinda funny that you bring up housing as a strong argument, while lets be honest - housing is empty as it is, the majority is afking in main cities and sub-cities (Rhalgr's Reach). Only a handful of players are owning plots.

You mention PVP and que times in general but whats the problem with that? PVP is done by a small portion anyway. And que times? It will be like before, you have to wait as a dps most while tanks or healers get insta-pop. Always been, no big change. In my opinion this shuffle had to be done at some point, because as it seems that 2 DC on NA and 1 DC in EU was not enough. And opening brand new data centers with only new servers would lead to one thing > closing the older ones.

Also I didnt mention the aspect "friends" on purpose, because I can relate to people giving up a lot of friendships and I dont see a good solution for that either. All I could advice people in this case is, to either decide if a friendship outweighs giving up a plot and move to 1 server all together. Or if not, add yourself on other platforms - discord for example. Friends come and go, and Im sure everyone will eventually make new friends on their new DC's as well.