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

[VerdeLuck]

Considering I'm on Dynamis but live in Oregon... it would suck *massively* to have my data center end up on the other side of the country, so now I have to deal with a dead server *and* endless lag, so that's definitely a "nay" from me.

If they're going to do a bunch of data center moving of any kind, it should be merging Dynamis into Aether/Primal/Crystal. Give the 2 least populated worlds to Aether, split the remaining 6 into 3 each for Primal & Crystal, and then give Aether a new world later on (when Primal & Crystal population has stabilized) thus bringing all of the data centers that people actually play on up to 11. And just to avoid the same mishap that happened when they created Crystal; Put it to community vote as to which of the 6 remaining Dynamis worlds go where between Primal & Crystal, while also offering people on all 8 of its worlds the ability to free transfer prior to the merge just in case their home world ended up going somewhere they didn't want. Top it off with some official stance on how *none* of the worlds are designated as this or that so people shouldn't feel like they *need* to go to Aether for raiding/Primal for PVP/Crystal for RP because ultimately the labeling issue is the fault of the PLAYERBASE and not Square-Enix, meaning we're mostly to blame for why Aether became too congested in the first place and we really need to break that habit.

This is what everyone not living on the west coast has to experience so what you'd go through is what we have to go through every time we log in and have 100+ ping to the server and trouble double weaving. I don't have a lot of sympathy when west coast players have told anyone from the east coast or midwest "suck it up" and "skill issue" for years.

[VoidsentStatus]

This is what everyone not living on the west coast has to experience so what you'd go through is what we have to go through every time we log in and have 100+ ping to the server and trouble double weaving. I don't have a lot of sympathy when west coast players have told anyone from the east coast or midwest "suck it up" and "skill issue" for years.

(east coast here) I remember when I started the game on GNB and found out about double weaving, and I thought it was just my internet dipping temporarly when I randomly couldn't double weave as I was progressing and changing gear frequently (not even materia usage). Wasn't until I played MNK/SAM that I realized my GCD speed played that important of a role under my ping tier for something I saw everyone doing casually everywhere on youtube. Only now as a growing/semi-veteran that I know 80% of those people I saw with no issues are PC using software or West Coast privelege. Actually an even more problematic issue for PvP because your sustain on healing, burst sync'ing to lower reaction, etc. are all ping tied so different jobs have different playstyles and reactions based on how their kit is personally cripled by ping. And it's a "well, I just objectively can't heal as fast, burst as fast, guard as fast, as anyone West Coast without cheating and risking my account, well that's not a fun choice to make."