1.21a patch note

[Aion]

It can... but I doubt there's 16+ terabytes of data in this game. A server merge shouldn't take more than 6 hours tops and that's with a 1-2 hour buffer to make sure nothing broke.

oh you have experience on doing server merge before?

[illriginalized]

oh you have experience on doing server merge before?

Many times on Linux/Unix based servers and quite a few times with Windows 2000 to 2003 to 2005 to 2008. And most of the time involving new equipment.

Have done it with much more data than this game has in totality.

which brings us to the question...
Could something be broken?

If something is broken and it takes more than 3 hours to figure out... SE needs to re-evaluate their administrators and think about getting a whole new team. This is embarrassing.

[Yumi_Hibiki]

If something is broken and it takes more than 3 hours to figure out... SE needs to re-evaluate their administrators and think about getting a whole new team. This is embarrassing.

its not like they know the server structure they worked with for a year now, they must really suck at their job
thank you random person with no insight into the details of the internal structure of the project whatsoever
you surely laid their incompetent asses bare...

no offense but i hate it when random people think they are better than a team that works on it for a living for over a year now