Quote Originally Posted by justausername View Post
I mean for those who doubted they were doing this for use for DT DC Travel, they are opening the new EU DC the same day ONLY for the purpose of DC travel to alleviate congestion. So it really is primarily for that purpose. The only reason why they are opening it fully here is because it would be weird to have 4 open worlds and 4 'for travel only' worlds.
The EU data center limitation was unexpected but it makes sense because there are still quiet servers on the existing DCs. The difference to NA is that NA doesn't really have dead servers on the old DCs and all non-Dynamis servers are more populated than any EU server. They really want you guys to spread out. Dynamis already has more endgame characters than Oceania and adding more servers will further increase its population.

It is also the case that NA is the only region experiencing housing shortages. In any other region's servers you can just go to bid on a personal plot and win it with no competition. They have not announced new housing additions for Dawntrail so this is one way of giving more housing to NA. First new servers, then after some time has passed I bet they'll open the remaining wards in the first 4 Dynamis servers.