Final Fantasy 14 Servers Are Finally Getting Upgrades

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In the coming days, Final Fantasy 14 will make some long-overdue upgrades to the server equipment in four data centers. The news of the server upgrades was announced by Square Enix on March 20 and coincides with the release of a small content update to Final Fantasy 14 on the day the upgrades will take place.

When Final Fantasy 14 released the Endwalker expansion in December 2021, the game received praise across the board for its storytelling, music, and gameplay thanks to the addition of the Reaper and Sage jobs. However, Endwalker was also marred by login queues and errors due to the sheer number of players that wanted to play the game and experience the main story for themselves. This was due in part to the game's population spike that took place in the summer of 2021, due to an influx of players that came over from World of Warcraft. However, to ensure similar circumstances are better mitigated in the future, some servers will receive updates soon.

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Starting on April 3 at 3:00 AM Pacific, a 24-hour maintenance period will take place on the North American data centers. The servers that will be undergoing hardware upgrades are on the Aether, Primal, Crystal, and Dynamis data centers. Square Enix stated that the upgrades will ideally optimize how the game runs on the server architecture and ensure the game will continue to support new features in upcoming content patches and expansions. However, the Final Fantasy 14 development team clarified that the physical location of the North American data centers will not be affected by the server upgrades and that they will remain in their current, California-based locale. Only time will tell what tangible results will come from