How Square Enix can solve both data center travel and ping/routing issues for NA

[mana-burner]

the situation you're desperate to get away from is something I should be totally okay with happening to me instead

Here we go again. Do they not teach reading comprehension on the west coast?

[Khryseis_Astra]

...What? Your whole argument is that East Coast players attempting to play on West Coast servers currently causes performance issues for them, so it would stand to reason that West Coast players attempting to play on East Coast servers would encounter THE EXACT SAME ISSUE.

I think the point was, that if they had multiple server locations, everyone could have the opportunity to move to a location closer to them and have nice performance you currently enjoy.

West coast players would still have DCs there, but East coast could get some too. If they moved Dynamis somewhere Central or East, I’m sure it would be a lot more attractive to people than it is now.

I’d be interested to see just how many subscribers there are in each geographical region of NA… because it seems atrocious that only the West coast gets good, smooth gameplay.

[Menriq]

Yes, and I know it's not fair that East Coast players have been at a disadvantage this whole time while West Coast players were not, albeit this was something I only became aware of in this topic. And while there *should* be a solution to that for East Coast players, especially when it wasn't always like this for them due to previous physical data center locations, designating which data centers become West Coast and East Coast should be done with consideration of players who are now suddenly trying to play the game from the other side of the country because their data center moved (and the latency is apparently bad enough already to justify these re-locations for East Coast players), otherwise all its doing is subjecting some West Coast players to the same issue, or how it wouldn't help any East Coast players whose data center didn't move at all.

But that requires a great deal of heavy-lifting (and a big ask) on Square-Enix's part, both when it comes to the physical re-re-location and allowing people to migrate effortlessly to the data center that's ideal for them, with the added issue that there's no guarantee that all (or even most) players will go through with moving given how entrenched some of them are right now even with things like housing plots going on unclaimed or people still trying to slip in and park on Aether/Primal/Crystal. It's always been the biggest issue with getting anything to change in this game, the company and community never wants to budge.

Personally I have no friends or FC on Dynamis, and I'm not attached enough to my Small house to be adverse to moving to a West Coast data center if re-location occurred, but only if that transfer is free, and more importantly I don't end up on a data center that's even deader than current-Dynamis because the re-location resulted in a new super data center on the other side of the country except now I have to deal with latency issues making travel there about as viable as me trying to play on the OCE data center. (I gave it a try, immediately noticed the performance drop, haven't been back since.)

I want a solution that doesn't screw over anybody instead of people thinking players on the East Coast or West Coast are a "you're a sacrifice I'm willing to make" kinda deal.

There is a solution that a 3rd party solved a while ago to address the latency.

[Canadane]

Remember when it was hosted in Quebec?
Man those were good times.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Remember when it was hosted in Quebec?
Man those were good times.

Were they? I seem to remember people complaining about lag constantly because level3 sucks and had a bad node on the Canadian border.

[VeyaAkemi]

So on the subject of cross-DC PF/DF, from 7.1 onward, PvP rankings will be region wide, and YoshiP further had this to say:

Y "This is not entirely what I want to do [regarding designated “ranked” DCs per region].... Like Ideally you should just match from wherever right?"
Y "But.... I can't say this yet"
Y "We are working on a matching system that involves every kind of content"
Y "As soon as I have more news, I will make the announcement"

A lot of people are interpreting this as "We are working on it, we just can't be fully certain if it is going to work out yet", so I guess it's as good an update as any.