So, this is not a lack of faith in CBU3 being able to deal with the surge of not only returning players for DT, but ofc our new Xbox Friends. And after experiencing all of the server issues XIV has had on launches, this is my suggestion.

Pre-warn players of a 1-2 week shut down the DC traveling for DTs Launch so that way people can pre-emptively go to the server they wanna play on with their friends, and so that people can play peacefully.

My reasoning for this? I feel like we'll see a LOT of people trying to rush going to play with friends, or go to "better" servers for content reasons, here in NA we'll see a surge of players heading to Aether, and possibly in turn as a knock on effect, players from Aether will surge places like Dynamis and Crystal which quiets down on expansion launches.

Not only will this clog up things and make something as simple as queueing for content abyssmal, servers will be congested interally, by the people already in game, and externally, by people trying to get in game. This isn't even mentioning the usual Early launch DDoS and Launch Day DDoS attacks.

I feel like this will be the best choice for player to play peacefully and only have to deal with minimal server queues.

And I know people will disagree, but this is just my 2 cents.