FFXIV Server FIXES Coming and MASSIVE growth | Gaming Kinda
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Outline
0:00 Introduction
0:50 News Overview
4:00 Oceanic Data Center
5:45 Transfer Worlds
7:58 Data Center Visit
8:40 How I think Data Center Visit Will Work
12:09 Rest of Data Center Travel News
13:55 Japanese NEW Data Center
18:24 North America Data Center Expansion
20:00 European New Worlds And MORE
21:25 Digital Sales are BACK
22:44 Live Letter is FEBRUARY
24:28 FREE Transfers
24:51 Transfer BONUSES’
26:02 All Saints is BACK
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"I thought we would have to wait longer"
Honestly me too, so I am really hyped 😀
What I noticed about this roll out is they seem to have settled on an 8 World per Logical Data Center design, save for Oceania.
Phase 0) Launch Oceania with 5.
Phase 1) Reorganize JP into 4 sets of 8.
Phase 2) Bring EU up to 8 each.
Phase 3) New NA DC with 8 servers (launched in waves of 4 due to part shortages).
Phase 4) New EU DC with 8 servers.
My tech brain finds this very interesting because I recall in the 7/20/2021 letter where they announced a hardware reconfiguration there was mention this was needed to due to limitations with the duty/party finder services. The direct quote is A matching server can only handle so much information, so to ensure that it functions properly, a capacity limit must be set. This limit determines the overall maximum population of a data center, which is then divided by the number of Worlds in the data center to calculate how many players can be logged in to each World." By reconfiguring JP to 8 worlds each with 4 available matching servers they're effectively increasing their simultaneous player capacity by 33% with no new worlds an a minimal hardware commitment.
I also noticed how massive this expansion is. There are currently 68 words across all three regions. They are adding 25 servers across two regions plus a whole new region! That's more than a third increase. I think it's 37% thereabouts? And a larger scale upgrade is in consideration. At the risk of sounding like a middle aged man trying to sound a cool kid, "14 be poppin' off."
The servers aren’t fixed.
#FixTheServers
They stonewalled on the issue of free game time, i.e. literally said nothing about it. That's horrible. Most people still can't play and there is no end in sight. Why are they being cheapskates? Haven't we been loyal customers? This is insulting.
I'm a EU and NA player, I got friends on both datecentres, so I like to go between the two 🙂
Basically you can see about how big the communities in each region are by the amount of servers and Data Centers Square Enix has to put up to accommodate the different sizes of the player base.
Congratulations NA you will have equal amounts of servers to Japan by the end of the year both in an 8:8:8:8 configuration and EU slowly catching up with 8:8:8 and Oceanian coming in with its single 5