With the release of July 2022 Patch 6.18, Final Fantasy XIV Introduced data center movement, allowing players to travel between worlds and data centers within a region. The FFXIV team is currently looking to extend this to inter-region travel as well, and will be able to test it soon.
Since data center travel was introduced, Square Enix has been open about concerns and limitations with its infrastructure. Yoshi-P has been providing transparency into the process and its challenges for years, but moving between data centers alone has proven difficult enough. But there are also concerns about less specific system features. Especially when it comes to in-game economics and social norms, which vary from data center to data center.
However, in many regions, you can expect login delays after release. dawn trail, FF14 The team is considering implementing cross-region data center moves as a temporary measure to reduce latency. Additional notes regarding crowd forecasts, friends list, etc. are available at Lodestone.
As someone who still gets flashbacks of lines of over 9,000 players while playing. end walkerEarly Access weekend, I can definitely get into this and I'm sure I'm not the only one doing so. Especially if you have more opportunities to play with friends from all over the world.
To test this system, players FF14 will be able to participate in the public test starting March 24th at 8:00 PM PDT / 11:00 PM ET. At this time, the Oceania Data Center will open its doors to visitors from data centers in Japan, North America, and Europe.
This test will remain in effect until 7.0 maintenance begins, but that date is unknown at the time of this writing. Square Enix has stated that players visiting from geographically distant locations may experience some lag issues, but they still hope people make the effort.To reduce stress during startup dawn trail.
