Summary
Final Fantasy 14is adding four new Worlds to the Dynamis Data Center on June 11: Cuchulainn, Golem, Kraken, and Rafflesia. These newFinal Fantasy 14Worlds are being added ahead ofDawntrailin an effort to preemptively counteract server congestion and long queue times.
Dawntrailsails intoFinal Fantasy 14on July 2, with early access beginning for players who pre-purchased the update on June 28. If previous expansions are any indication,Final Fantasy 14fans shouldn’t be surprised if they get caught in a queue when trying to log in to the critically-acclaimed MMORPG afterDawntraillaunches.
In an effort to help alleviate some of these inevitable hiccups,Final Fantasy 14is adding four Worlds to the Dynamis Data Center. These servers will go live on June 11, bringing the total number of Worlds on the newest North American Data Center up to eight, the same number as most other data centers inFinal Fantasy 14. Hopefully, the addition of these new Worlds can spread the population acrossFinal Fantasy 14ahead ofDawntrail’s release.
FF14: Dawntrail North American Data Center Expansion
As outlined on theFF14World Population Balancing Incentives page, players who create characters on these Worlds, or use the free transfer service to migrate an existing character to them, will receive a number of benefits. New characters receive 10 silver chocobo feathers, a million gil, and 15 days of free playtime, while transferred characters get 10 gold chocobo feathers, as well as a gil reimbursement for any private housing or apartments they own. Additionally, both receive double experience gains until they reach level 80 on their first job. Characters on these servers will qualify for these bonuses until 90 days after they reach a certain population threshold, and are no longer classified as a New World.
Final Fantasy 14has been hard at work upgrading its servers in preparation forDawntrail. In May, it added the new Shadow logical data center to its European Data Center, plus several other server updates over the last several years. This is undoubtedly becauseFF14is trying to avoid taking extreme measures to alleviate high traffic, like it did inFinal Fantasy 14: Endwalkerby halting sales of the new expansion.
While adding Worlds is almost always a good thing, some fans have concerns over these new Dynamis servers. The data center’s population is already not high; the existing Halicarnassus, Maduin, Marilith, and Seraph Worlds are all still classified as New. This is, unfortunately, because of a troubling trend of players making characters on one World, but then using theData Center Travel system inFinal Fantasy 14to play on another. Fans will have to see if these new Worlds can help balance the population, or if they end up exacerbating the issue even further.
Final Fantasy 14 (2010)
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