Datacenters: A Plea For Community Building, Not Fracturing

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Your ping time is a result of many different things, only one of which are the servers themselves; by far the vast majority of what affects your ping is the ISP networks your data travels across and how they chose to route your data which SE has no control over. Using a VPN is a player choice to bypass that and hopefully get a better ping, its not something SE forces them to do.

The servers can be unreliable during peak hours (the routing from certain regions gets bottlenecked -- maybe it's a fault of the US's infrastructure) and the go to suggestion by the player base is to get a vpn. It is a choice to get a vpn, but at the same time, a better host for the servers would appease their customers.

Moving servers is a player choice, nothing SE does forces a player to move. Blaming SE for the cost of transfers is simply not taking responsibility for your own choices.

I wasn't really blaming them, but stating they have made money from their server transfers due to the instability.

If you wanted to blame SE for how inefficient their game engine is and how it handles network traffic or their decisions for back up times or character updates, that would be fair but none of that is server infrastructure.

I feel the backend management software would be included in the infrastructure. Load balancing based on demand (beginning of an expansion). If we are being nitpicky though, I will just concede.

Throwing more hardware at it seems backwards. Aether most likely will have another (or few) mega servers that will cause the same issues Balmung has.

Advancing their tech to support a united North American playerbase is where most companies start or have moved towards.