No one cautiously optimistic about the East Coast data center?

[GTK0HLK]

Xbox gets the game next summer and they use cloud based servers

Doesn't necessarily mean much, unless they'll be restricted to their own servers which will be in contrary to what everyone expects them to be. Which is in the servers that PC/PS is on.

Like the other user who said it more better than i(which I quoted above)
it's likely only to go up for when we get flooded and have to lock servers. Like Major Patch days or Expac days.

[Unless XBOX is gonna blunder and keep them separate like the few Far Eastern Nations that keep their nations separate from global.]

I guess we'll see if it's some Random New DC how some see it.[Which tbh, I find the most unlikely thing to happen. Like if SE suddenly tried to make 5 Ults in one .X Series.]

Or how most would actually see it, as emergency Congestion servers that only happen to be tested in EAST NA atm.

[But for sure the XBOX angle was something I didn't think off, but that would be equivalent to shooting themselves in the foot. Unless it was a Malicious Compliance from SE against MS if they asked to be separate in their own servers.

Cause that's basically what it's asking for.]

[Oizen]

Dynamis is already a ghost town, a dedicated east coast server would just end up exactly like that.

And even if you move there, as its not Aether, nothing is going to change.

[DrWho2010]

this is only a temporary thing. the cloud servers are there to be scaled up and or down depending on demand. i would think they would be there to avoid the massive congestion for the 7.0 launch as they don't want another debacle like last time when 6.0 launched. if you can't get into your homeworld, just do msq on the cloud server. and with the increased amount of players that will be playing on xbox's when 7.0 launches. it will be a nightmare.

[Toutatis]

this is only a temporary thing. the cloud servers are there to be scaled up and or down depending on demand. i would think they would be there to avoid the massive congestion for the 7.0 launch as they don't want another debacle like last time when 6.0 launched. if you can't get into your homeworld, just do msq on the cloud server. and with the increased amount of players that will be playing on xbox's when 7.0 launches. it will be a nightmare.

That is my understanding too. I thought it was clear this was a temporary test of a system meant to handle overflow. They never mentioned another new DC for NA though they did mention new worlds (to complete Dynamis, I guess).

From what I’ve gathered, characters will be temporary and evolve on that server only (you won’t be able to send or use that 50 mil for your regular character). They will be handing books and gils to those temporary test characters for the purpose of the test only so people are ready to go around the game world and try different aspects of the game instead of having everyone start at lvl 1 in one of the 3 main cities. Once they get enough feedback, they will turn it off and decide if they go ahead or not with this concept.

[Mimilu]

For some reason it almost reads like everyone has the impression that it'll be permanent, or the concept that we will suddenly be shipped down river to the East Coast NA.

Just a Cloud Server Test that is new characters only, that'll get wiped as soon as the test ends.

As for its purpose, couldn't tell you.
Feels like Emergency Servers incase of overflood/load. Except they're testing before hand where it won't affect long standing character data.

^This
The server will only be up from 11/21-11/27 and you'll have to create new characters, which will have access to all jobs, level jumping and story skipping potions, and 50 million gil. And while its going to be focused on the US's East Coast, people from every region are encouraged to join to help stress-test it. *✲ﾟ*(❁´▽`❁)*✲ﾟ*
I wonder if its going to only be limited to one character per account and/or if data-center travel will be locked, otherwise, people are going to make a bunch of characters to get that 50 million. (*≧▽≦)ﾉｼ))

[Poporito_Popoto]

Yeah that's my bad I'm extra tired and I misunderstood east coast and west coast... lol... so yeah it'll be a good thing for us europeans on NA then, works for me.

Agree with the Aether thing though, the same thing will just happen again, Dynamis hasnt even filled all 4 worlds that were created (Seraph is ok, the other 3 are just absolute deserts), and they are adding 4 more in the future, plus another DC then for this cloud thing, it's just spreading the community at this point and I really dont think the game needs it at all, it's detrimental to the active dc's health.

You're still not understanding what this 'cloud thing' is.

[Toutatis]

I wonder if its going to only be limited to one character per account and/or if data-center travel will be locked, otherwise, people are going to make a bunch of characters to get that 50 million. (*≧▽≦)ﾉｼ))

Not sure if people will be limited to a single character but I am sure it will be limited to the test environment and there will be no DC travel (and no transferring that 50 mil to another character).

[Khryseis_Astra]

I may try it and see what it’s like… I’ve been having issues with lag for months now, and I know a good many people in the East US and EU have been as well. From tracerts, it appears NTT has faulty nodes in San Jose and Sacramento. Even if I’m on the cloud, wouldn’t I still have to go through there anyways because that’s where the main game servers are? I don’t really understand how it all works. lol

[Ravenblade1979]

I believe yoshi p did mention that cloud server could take over and the reason has to do with the physical data centers. Was hard for a few years there to even get server blades to expand. So it's a possible alternate they might use as to not have to worry about server costs.

[Bonoki]

Good to see you are the beacon of negativity as usual. Keep it up!

Stormpeaks isn't wrong though.