Wondering if they will put cross region data center travel eventually?

This is just a speculation and I can't remember if they did/ever mention something about possibly making it so you could travel from NA to EU like the data center travel, but the reason why I'm wondering this is because I went on my XIV app for the first time in ages and noticed that they made it so I could see my previous friends list from EU since I played on EU for ages lol. I wonder if this is just something they added to the app or if it might be a poke in the direction of cross region travel, but I don't know, and want to know what others think of this. I'm just speculating though, I don't know if this would ever be a thing or if it's just a little thing they added to the app lol

no, that would cause an insane meltdown in the japanese datacenters (even though 70% of mana and elemental is chinese)

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Originally Posted by SeiyaSoiya

no, that would cause an insane meltdown in the japanese datacenters (even though 70% of mana and elemental is chinese)

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Well they could just exclude Japanese DCs.

Didnt they say that was the original plan before sticking to only cross DC travel?

Yeah I think they plan to someday but currently it isnt feasible atm from what I heard

It's already causing issues just within regions.





If they made it cross region everyone would dogpile on one DC. Sadly I think it as a feature was a bad idea. Or it needs to be further limited.

Yoshi-P mentioned quite recently that he was working on that at PAX East.

"Another thing would be—and this would be quite an undertaking—trying to connect all of the different regions, so that no matter where you are in the world, you’ll be able to sync up with and party up with other players."

There seems to be evidence it'll happen soon like what you just saw as well.

Ohh I see, I didn't know he addressed that, so that's pretty cool. And yeah I can understand the pros and cons with this, but I'm sure there could be some way they would work around it. I kind of feel like they wouldn't implement it into Japanese data centers but I'm not sure.

He said before that it's something they would like to do but mention that there are extreme cultural differences between the JP playerbase and the NA playerbase and isn't entirely confident we would get along very well. He is concerned of a cultural war happening and the damage it could do to the sustainability of the game. Such as Party Finders being labelled "JP or NA only!" to join. And he isn't wrong. Just look at the cultural opinions JP has on mods vs NA. It definitely would cause a community stir.

There have been rumours spreading around the Discords I am in of a datamined new title in the same category as <Wanderer> and <Traveler> called <Voyager>.

I don't know if it's true, but that's what I've read in a lot of places.

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Originally Posted by Remish

He said before that it's something they would like to do but mention that there are extreme cultural differences between the JP playerbase and the NA playerbase and isn't entirely confident we would get along very well. He is concerned of a cultural war happening and the damage it could do to the sustainability of the game. Such as Party Finders being labelled "JP or NA only!" to join. And he isn't wrong. Just look at the cultural opinions JP has on mods vs NA. It definitely would cause a community stir.

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Jokes on him, that's been a thing.

Keeping systems closed due to culture is such a backwards thought process and just encourages more separation and xenophobia. He should be more concerned about how it affects existing servers and DCs, not how it affects culture.

We need global Duty Finder, let's stop fucking around already - It's been 10 years, other MMOs are evolving at a much faster pace.

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Originally Posted by Remish

He said before that it's something they would like to do but mention that there are extreme cultural differences between the JP playerbase and the NA playerbase and isn't entirely confident we would get along very well. He is concerned of a cultural war happening and the damage it could do to the sustainability of the game. Such as Party Finders being labelled "JP or NA only!" to join. And he isn't wrong. Just look at the cultural opinions JP has on mods vs NA. It definitely would cause a community stir.

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I think they kinda lost the right to hate on us for mods with the recent cheating scandal they had involving plugins.

Traveling such great distances would be quite the voyage.

They need to add cross-DC DF/PF before making cross-region travel. Adding additional travel options would only further the current problem rn XD

I am totally ok with leaving the JP data centers private and separate of the others. As all of the other DCs spun off from the NA DC, culturally it’s much easier to link then all. For a start, I would test it with NA and OCE.

Consider: If cross-region travel ever does get implemented, it will mean there will not (likely) be any further instances of, for example, only taking NA servers down for maintenance, as happened only a few weeks ago. The result of announcing only one region will experience downtime would result in an absolute flood of players to other regions in order to avoid any loss of playtime. None of the regional infrastructure is likely capable of handling that influx.

Wouldn't be surprised if there are more behind-the-scenes considerations like that going into the decision, more than "noooo we like our semi-closed JP community."

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Consider: If cross-region travel ever does get implemented, it will mean there will not (likely) be any further instances of, for example, only taking NA servers down for maintenance, as happened only a few weeks ago.

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There have been instances of specific worlds going down, and avoiding the inconvenience by visiting another. There have been instances of specific data centers going down and avoiding that by traveling to another. So I'm not sure about this being true.

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

I think they kinda lost the right to hate on us for mods with the recent cheating scandal they had involving plugins.

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If I recall, the JP community bullied those people into deleting their characters or something like that. I could be wrong. They felt really embarrassed that it happened.

I feel like in the long run this could be something that would be nice to have implemented and if they're talking about possibly making it a thing I want to assume they probably have a plan on how to fix the issues that could happen with it, I just mainly feel if it did happen then I think they'd probably close off the JP servers from it since they're kind of a lot more different than NA or other EU servers.

Just connect all the english servers. JP can stay segregated if they want but perhaps if they were connected as well then they would take the chance to learn our ways of playing.

No thanks no, the JP don't want NA over there. And EU doesn't want NA either. You can stay in your own cesspool.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

There have been instances of specific worlds going down, and avoiding the inconvenience by visiting another. There have been instances of specific data centers going down and avoiding that by traveling to another. So I'm not sure about this being true.

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How many of these instances were planned and announced ahead of time?

https://i.imgur.com/E67BVKn.png

As much as people are divided on this one, all they have to do is apply some restrictions (like no marketboard purchases maybe). I have plenty friends on NA, but I also want to do stuff and content that's based on my time (EU). Having the option to travel would save me proper sleep for once instead of staying up to 5 am.

what kind of people do maint on a holiday duh

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Originally Posted by EstelleCere

This is just a speculation and I can't remember if they did/ever mention something about possibly making it so you could travel from NA to EU like the data center travel, but the reason why I'm wondering this is because I went on my XIV app for the first time in ages and noticed that they made it so I could see my previous friends list from EU since I played on EU for ages lol. I wonder if this is just something they added to the app or if it might be a poke in the direction of cross region travel, but I don't know, and want to know what others think of this. I'm just speculating though, I don't know if this would ever be a thing or if it's just a little thing they added to the app lol

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It would be great!!

Helps with role qeues, more active, more social engagement!

People who like to dig deep are saying there is evidence ingame of this being in the works. So, probably going to be announced in fanfest.

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Originally Posted by Sove92

People who like to dig deep are saying there is evidence ingame of this being in the works. So, probably going to be announced in fanfest.

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Yes, I've seen it, and I really hope it will be added sooner or later. It would be my dream come true, even my NA friendos are excited for me lol

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

No thanks no, the JP don't want NA over there. And EU doesn't want NA either. You can stay in your own cesspool.

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Uh, I have characters on EU and I get along with my friends there just fine. Plus, cross DC travel would make Materia less useless to have alts on as you could shift to EU or NA for content until it fills.