No one cautiously optimistic about the East Coast data center?

[GTK0HLK]

The test giving out free books and 50m gil should be a fairly substantial clue as to one of the true purposes of this test. Hardly a number you arrive at by chance.

There's substantial value in trying to get a full deployment to operate like this, so you have an ace in your pocket if another demand surge arises. It's expensive, but not as expensive as having to stop selling the game entirely. I suspect, however, that the primary motivation is for working out any technical kinks around distributing and offloading instances into the cloud. There's quite a lot of merit to doing that with the sort of instance where the demand is extremely elastic, and the performance and spin-up requirements are comparatively low...

Yeah, what I meant, just less eloquently put.

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Though I imagine some groups/personalities will be making plans on what to do when the Test Arrives. As some in the more community known podcasts even thrown ideas around how some folk will likely make small events out of the temporary Cloud Test.

[Still don't get why many are taking it like it'll be a permanent new DC. where are they getting that notion?]

[Frost1800]

I am optimistic about it. In fact, it is the most exciting news for me for the entire fan fest. Currently, playing on one of the 4 dcs on US west coast causes me unable to double weaving anything without clipping for jobs with a gcd faster than ~2.5 s. If the new cloud dc option at ease coast gets permanently implemented, I can finally play jobs like samurai, monk, and ninja.
You know, it is kind hard hard to get excited of the new jobs, if I cannot enjoy playing them with the clippings.

[Ivtrix]

Honestly no point really without cross data center queuing or anything worthwhile

It will be deader than dynamis

[MsMisato]

If still connects through NTT the problem with the ping will always be there. NTT is problem node and they know it. This is the only game that really gives me ping issues and each and every time a trace is ran it points to NTT.

[TaleraRistain]

I didn't get the impression this was any permanent thing, just something they were thinking about to help with stress on the servers in periods of high demand.

[Ravenblade1979]

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.

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

[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.