With the realease of Patch 7.5 there has been a change to the Data Center Travel system that has been quite personally frustrating. Previously, when you DC traveled to a server if you made it there you could immediately log in. This is no longer the case as the system will now let you tranfer to congested worlds and then give you an error when attempting to log in and tell you to try again later. If you just wanted to be on the DC as a whole you can just world visit and try again, however this can make getting to specific servers incredibly frustrating.
Previously, if you managed to get the character over to your desired server you could freely log in and out so long as you did not return to homeworld or transfer away for up to 30 days at a time. With the new system even if you log out on the server you wish to stay at when you later attempt to log in you can still be blocked by the congestion message and forced to attempt log in over and over until you get lucky.
This effectively means that the only way now to garuntee a spot on a high population/activity server is to be a native character, or once there, never log out of the game.
I speculate that these changes are likely in preperation for the cross-region duty finder and party finder systems coming later in patch 7.5X which undoubtably is coming with several major server infastructure changes. I would just like to personally ask for a return of the old system because I prefer it being difficult to get over but once you are there you are set. Instead of rolling the dice everytime I turn on the game.
7.5 Data Center Travel Changes Feedback
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04-30-2026, 11:52 AMNohimeOda7.5 Data Center Travel Changes Feedback
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04-30-2026, 01:04 PMCherrizini
Did they mention any changes? I traveled to Aether overnight to raid with static, and when I tried to log back in to raid an hour ago, I got the Error 3088 pop up.
I hope it's only for patch day, and it doesn't stay like this all patch because this will make people not want to play. -
04-30-2026, 01:52 PMAlicieNo they did not, but it was not a thing before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cherrizini
Unless this is reverted for Ultimate release or cross-DC PF will be a thing released together with Ultimate, this will, for North America, effectively mean that characters located at other data centers than Aether will be cut off from Ultimate prog in PF. Bravo SE, you did well. -
04-30-2026, 04:38 PMSalamanderIX
Yeah, you can't park on Aether anymore. Honestly this is a great change and one they should had made ages ago. Then we wouldn't be waiting for our cross region PF to save us.
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04-30-2026, 06:10 PMBatbrat
It shouldnt have been possible to park in servers like that to begin with, and after the changes coming in 8.0, there will be no reason to be in any server but your own anymore (aside from marketboard buying). Better to just get used to it now than have it be a splash of cold water all at once. If anything, nows a great time for big social groups of friends to consider moving over to Dynamis. All the houses are up for sale. You can all live right next door to each other, and eventually in time (year or so from now), you'll be able to queue and pf and things anywhere within the Data Center just fine. I think people should start planning their XIV experience focused on the servers that they're in, just like it used to be before DC/server travel ever came out-just now with the added perk of having a lot more access to everybody gameplay-wise.
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05-01-2026, 12:21 AMSpritePR
Had a friend stuck with this the first day as well. (Also myself yesterday) Not really sure what the benefit of this is as congestion seems to be artificial at times. Is it really that big a deal to have a short queue before a login? I hope they reconsider this before dropping the ultimate in 7.51 or its going to be a disaster. (Can't wait for DDOS to be back for prog and lock me out for the rest of the day)
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05-01-2026, 12:27 AMHammAndCheese
Most of my static is on crystal so it was a little weird to just not be able to swap over and log into crystal yesterday, we all had to go to primal. LOL
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05-01-2026, 01:42 AMRaionKansen
If they force people to play on their home Data Center for 7.51, its going to kill the Ultimate
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05-01-2026, 07:03 AMAidorouge
I assume its a bug because it would be really silly to make traveling difficult right at the start of a new ranked PVP season where people NEED to hop DCs to participate.
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05-01-2026, 07:12 AMangienessyo
For people worried about the new ultimate, keep in mind that if literally no one can come over here to Aether, there will be parties for it on the other data centers.
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05-01-2026, 07:28 AMCherrizini
It’s getting pretty frustrating. I followed the advice to list a Party Finder for reclears during peak hours, but it just never filled. I checked PF on my Aether alt and it was packed with people doing all kinds of content; meanwhile, Primal only had about 20 listings max, and the rest were just club ads.
I agree it’s a good change, but it should have been delayed until the cross-data center Party Finder and Duty Finder changes were implemented. -
05-01-2026, 09:17 AMSorrowsEnd
They somehow keep making it worst it's really impressive. The first iteration was somehow the best.
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05-01-2026, 10:04 AMAlicieit's not going to kill ultimate, but if they won't open up Aether for permatransfers it will mean that non-Aethers will be forced out of PF and will have to join staticsQuote:
Originally Posted by RaionKansen
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05-01-2026, 10:06 AMAlicieMost raiders are on Aether, so parties on other data centers won't even be feasibleQuote:
Originally Posted by angienessyo
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05-01-2026, 11:34 AMSkankyRoeWith what players? The raiders who hopped to Aether aren't gonna head back to their home DC, they'll just sit in the character select screen and keep trying to login until they succeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by angienessyo