(08-05-2015, 11:42 AM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: Somthing like this probably isn't feasible, given the costs of enterprise equipment and running it, not to mention it's likely a bandwidth issue and not a server issue. (They're different!)More importantly, it shouldn't be up to a crowdfunded initiative from the community to add more bandwidth available to the one of the most densely populated datacenters of the game.
Ultimately, if they want people to move out of Aether's Data Center so it's hammered less hard, they'll have to offer hella incentives to do that, or just straight up put Balmung under extended maintenance and put it onto another Data Center that's far less crowded.
However that would require Square-Enix to want to do anything about this situation, which precedent shows they don't so essentially anyone rolling on Balmung has to pay 18$ for the privilege. Not saying that's the reason they're not doing it. Just that it's probably in the 3 digits on their list of things to do sorted by priority.
