No one cautiously optimistic about the East Coast data center?

[MisterNublet]

East cost player. Absolutely zero interest in cloud based servers.

[Derio]

Doesnt matter. Its not Aether. Unless they move Aether to the cloud data center on the east coast. Thats the problem.

[Zarkovitch]

As a east coast player, I'm extremely curious how those servers will work in terms of gameplay. Even tho it's just temporally, It can be good alternative to implemented servers from a lot other regions if goes well for SE and players.A lot peeps say Aether is still king, the reason why is all servers are in same location. If there one on the east they will lose a chunk of players easily. Y'all forgot there a lot of North American east coast players, south american and europeans plays in NA. If there a advantage to cheese mechanics and have smoother gameplay, players will jump boat easily.

[Yencat]

Optimistic? We don't do that around here.

[PetThisMiqo]

There was never an issue to begin with. This is simply a minor improvement that Square Enix is offering to better the lives of their playerbase. We all know there will be complaints regardless of the successful launch as the majority of forumers are angry and bitter despite everything Square Enix offers them.

[Nayukhuut]

They couldnt even fill Dynamis, and it wont fill in DT either, except maybe for a short time, maybe a few months at most until the population gets back to normal.

An entire new DC will be good news for us housing enthusiasts I guess, but aside from that it'll just be a dead DC yeah. Yet another one after Materia and Dynamis lol, it's like they dont learn a single thing from what is going on, just like when they mentioned last week or so that they are not aware of any imbalance in between datacenters aside from JP, basically implying that it's not a thing that everyone goes to Aether for content.

I suppose it makes sense if they are just looking at population data. Dynamis is quite full. Sadly it is mostly full of bots since all the players are, as you said, on Aether looking for groups.

I can only hope that if they add yet another datacenter, they also add cross datacenter party finder.