Quote Originally Posted by MiaShino View Post
The same corporation that authorized setting up one single datacenter to service multiple countries both in the Americas and the EU then thought, this will end well.

Meanwhile nearly every other publisher including EA has the common sense to understand that a minimum of three geographical regions should be covered for NA. Western (Cali), Central (Texas), Eastern (Chicago). I try not to get sassy with these posts but some things just boggle the mind.
It's not much an issue, EU used to actually be in the same data center as NA back when they were in Montreal with their previous provider before they went to Frankfurt.

Would help latency, but it's not so much about traffic as NTT has the infrastructure being a Tier 1 provider, they had been mostly fault-free since SE relocated to their Sacramento facility, it was said it takes 20 racks to run just one world. So having 500+ in one data center allows flexibility, saves on costs. If they use say the NTT Dallas, Texas hub, then if there was any problems routing to Sacramento, every player in those worlds would feel the faults. They would have to substantially outgrow the data center to consider the additional cost of a new location.