What happens when Primal & Crystal get full too?

[MeiraStarborne]

They already do this. In times of heavy congestion and long queues, Free trial players can’t even join the login queue. They are told to come back another time.

[Wasselin]

That's just reality. I suppose they will have to reopen all the servers and we will just have to deal with longer log in queues. Hopefully they are able to launch new servers before that happens.

I don't think longer queues is the only downside. I feel like the servers are getting too big with too many people. It kind of dilutes the community atmosphere.

[Anienai]

What happens when Primal & Crystal get full too?

The Purge happens.

[Hanayumi]

Serious doubt we'll see new servers soon, earliest 6.1 maybe... But yeah they were very unprepared for the sudden growth, not to mention the production of a the necessary equipment and also services took a hit from covid and is still recovering. So unless they get lucky or just throw tons of money at it, its likely not going to happen anytime soon.

[MeiraStarborne]

The Purge happens.

Seems legit!

[Jeeqbit]

They are looking for temporary ways to increase capacity like software improvements, configuration changes or upgrades but obviously that is just to handle the pressure until new data centers can be made.

[SturmChurro]

Many from this surge of new players I doubt will stay indefinitely, after a couple months of EW the load should lighten a bit. Launch is a different story though.

[Sotaris]

At that point they force kick all RPers in Limsa /s

If it keeps up I wouldn't rule out new servers in 6.x. Same goes for EU.

Many from this surge of new players I doubt will stay indefinitely, after a couple months of EW the load should lighten a bit. Launch is a different story though.

Yep, so expect unchanged situation or worse for say 6 months or so. Roughly until 6.1 or bit before then.

[Terin]

I highly doubt the problem is the servers truly being "full", so much as there's probably a large discrepancy because a bunch of people are chasing the big streamers, instead of choosing the data center that actually makes the most sense for their location.

Seeing as we'll be able to visit other data centers at SOME point, I think that will resolve the main issues.

[wizisi2k]

if Primal and Crystal also get full, there may be talk of reallocating the servers for Oceania at least temporally to be used as extra temp servers/bringing them online early till new servers can be delivered to the normal DC location. Once new servers are delivered and configured correctly, the whole game would undergo a 24-36 hour maint to ensure all characters were transferred fully intact from the AU servers to the new hardware located with the rest of the NA servers and the Oceania DC goes online. Is it going to cause heavy lag for some people? Absoutely but when the alternative is unstable servers, what can SE do? it's the lesser of 2 evils