Datacenters: A Plea For Community Building, Not Fracturing

[Hamada]

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 a 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 overweights giving up their plot and move to 1 server all together. If not keep, 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.

You are missing the point, this should not be a debate at all (friends vs housing). SE should be upgrading their servers and addressing their netcode. I am so sick of bandaid fixes to things, and this is one thing that should be addressed properly. Also SE should of done housing properly by now.

I noticed you withdrew your selfish and snowflake argument. It is good seeing you took a look in the mirror on that idea. I can't believe people think this is SE's only solution, it isn't it is just their cheapest while making the playerbase suffer, they only are about money, not the playerbase.

I should mention I feared the new data center causing a split between West and East Coast North America, meaning an even worse split on worlds. When the servers were in Montreal, I had bad pings. Now that thy are in California, I have good pings. Why? Because I'm on the West Coast. You look at other games and they have East and West Coast data centers, something Final Fantasy XIV does not. A split with Crystal being on the East Coast and Primal being on the West Coast would have meant for logistics I'd need to leave my world as we are being moved too.

And if anyone is saying that all the Primal worlds coming are dead, I had a que (be it 7 people) of world full yesterday. I wouldn't exactly say that is a dead server and we are known on Primal as being the one for crafters and gatherers. I welcome people coming to visit and buying the 380 gear I make as that is a larger market.

What about all the people that had good pings on the east coast that now has bad pings?

the buy only for the markets is also a very bad idea, you will not sell anything if you are in a DC with a crafter bot, like what Cactuar complained about.