Final Fantasy 14 is ready to make its first steps towards cross-region data centre travel in response to the community's ongoing requests.
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Players of Final Fantasy 14 will be happy to hear that Cross-region Data Centre Travel a fantastic new feature will soon be available. This means that even if they are located in different regions of the world gamers can travel between various game servers. Imagine playing the game with friends located in Europe, North America or Japan.
The free trial period begins on March 24 and continues until the Dawntrail expansion release. Players have been requesting this feature for a while so it’s important that they test it out and see how it functions. Prepare yourself to discover new worlds and build connections with companions worldwide in Final Fantasy 14.
Final Fantasy 14 is ready to make its first steps towards cross-region data centre travel in response to the community’s ongoing requests. According to Square Enix, the trial will start on Sunday, March 24 at 11:00 PM Eastern Time and end in the summer when Dawntrail’s server maintenance begins.
But only players from North America, Europe and Japan will be able to take part in the experiment; the Oceanic region’s Materia Data Centre will be the chosen location for testing the new features and managing group activities between regions. The five domains that make up the Materia Data Centre at the moment are Bismark, Ravana, Sephirot, Sophia and Zurvan.
According to Square Enix, this experiment is in line with their promise to make Dawntrail’s launch go more smoothly than Endwalker’s. It is predicted that the introduction of Cross-region Data Centre Travel will help with data collection and maybe reduce wait times during expansion launches. Throughout the trial period Square Enix has actively encouraged community feedback and engagement acknowledging that gamers connected to the Materia Data Centre from faraway continents may have latency concerns.
The Data Centre Travel system was first introduced in Final Fantasy 14 Patch 6.18 and allowed players to travel between data centres located on the same region. As an example players on the Aether Data Centre could travel at will to and from the Primal, Crystal and Dynamis Data Centres, which are all in North America.
Producer and director of Final Fantasy 14, Naoki Yoshida hesitated because of language and social difficulties even though technology existed to enable Cross-region Data Centre Travel. As a result Data Centre Travel did not begin with the game until the Endwalker expansion.
Starting at the same time as Final Fantasy 14’s PAX East panel on Dawntrail the Cross-region Data Centre Travel trial provides players with an extra channel for excitement and involvement in the run-up to the expansion’s release.
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