Sign if you would of Prefered this over the data Center shuffle

[Avenger]

To;dr: It is a cool idea, but unfortunately cross data center play (or super data centers) doesn’t seem to be practical at the moment and would likely introduce unacceptable slowdown and lag, even if the data centers are in the same location connected by a fast network. The reason is likely to be software service scalability, not hardware capacity.

It seems likely that characters, items, and instances require synchronization and shared state, which could run into scaling issues that limit the size of a data center that works well. They seemed to be implying at fanfest that there is a scaling limit to how many worlds can share a single data center - probably resulting in unacceptable performance drops as the load gets too high. The problem probably gets drastically worse if the physical servers are far apart from each other and have high network delay.

It is possible they could overcome it somehow, but for now the workable solution for SE seems to be adding more data centers and spreading/rebalancing the worlds across them rather than increasing the capacity and scalability of single data centers to support more worlds on each one. Doing so would likely not be a simple matter of throwing money and big iron servers and faster networks at the problem - it would probably require software and algorithm improvements that they might not even know how to do yet.

The good news I think in all of this is that it seems that the game is expanding and they seem to be adding capacity so that new worlds can be created in all data centers and regions.

[Canadane]

2.0 launched with the PF across all servers. Maybe it was early access.
It was terribly broken. I completely stopped working at times.