The first step the development team is planning to take is breaking the boundaries between logical datacenters. The big circle on the bottom right marked “E” represents what we have now, one enclosed logical datacenter in which players can freely move between servers. Within each there are the “logical datacenters” like Crystal, Aether, and Primal in North America. The three big circles marked JP, EU, and NA are the physical datacenters for the three regions. To better explain the concept, Yoshida-san doodled the sketch below According to Yoshida-san, they’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel and he encourages fans to wait for further news on this. While it isn’t guaranteed that it’ll work, they have some ideas on how to make this “magic” happen. Unfortunately, it can’t just magically happen, but they’re working on it. That being said, this is a very challenging task.ĭevelopers are discussing internally how to make this possible from an engineering point of view. While the physical datacenters will remain, the team is looking for ways to break the barriers between the datacenters, allowing us to play with everyone else regardless of server and datacenter. Yet, during an interview at Gamescom in Germany, Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida told Twinfinite that this could change in he future. The World Visit system recently implemented in Final Fantasy XIV, allows players to travel to servers within the same datacenter, but the team at Square Enix has its sights set on a larger goal.Īt the moment, players from servers included in different datacenters cannot play together.

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