Final Fantasy 14 digital gross sales will restart later this month after Sq. Enix took steps to ease the server congestion that has plagued the sport over the previous few months. These steps embrace opening new FFXIV servers in Oceania and extra information facilities to be put in world wide all through 2022.
How FFXIV congestion is being eased
The Oceanian information heart might be opening on January 25 and can begin with 5 new worlds. To encourage gamers on this area to switch over to the brand new servers, the switch price might be waived in addition to Sq. Enix providing different incentives, which might be detailed nearer to launch. This may also imply the Residence World Switch Service will reopen for all gamers on January 26. The rationale for the day delay for Oceania gamers is to ensure the brand new information heart is working with out concern.
Different areas might be getting information heart expansions. Whereas Japan is not going to be getting new worlds, they are going to be getting a brand new information heart to deal with a number of the excessive congestion presently dealt with by the present information facilities. This transformation will happen in July. In the meantime, North America will get a two-phase server enlargement that can add a brand new information heart and eight new worlds. The information heart and 4 of these worlds might be added in August, whereas the remaining 4 worlds will go dwell within the spring or summer time of 2023.
Europe might be getting the largest enlargement of all, once more going down in two phases. The primary part will add 4 new worlds in July. The second part will add a brand new information heart and eight new worlds in summer time 2023. Each Europe and North America are prone to be expanded past this additional into the long run and you will discover extra particulars on the game’s website.
The promised Information Middle Journey System has now been pushed again to a later model 6.1x patch. This could enable gamers to journey to different worlds saved on the identical information heart. Cross-region journey could also be applied sooner or later however gained’t be obtainable at launch. Lastly, sales of the game will restart at 5pm JST on January 25. If servers proceed to expertise excessive congestion, gross sales might be suspended once more. After Sq. Enix is bound the servers are working effectively, they’ll think about restarting the free trials too.
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