[Dev Feedback] - Megaservers - Open World Content needs this :)

[Sylvina]

The question that immediately pops into my head with this is - how would this affect The Hunt and World Bosses?

The Hunt is already a disaster on certain servers, and introducing mega servers with no changes to how it works would make it nigh impossible to do with the amount of people that would be introduced.

Edit :

Let me elaborate. My concern is also actual gameplay of certain things, as well as server stress. For example, on Behemoth there is a small group of people that grief hunts for everyone. Now, a player can leave the server if it matters that much to them, but if you introduced mega servers, those same Behemoth griefers would be able to mess with the entirety of Primal's hunt scene. You can argue competitive all you want, but the way the Hunt and it's rewards are set up do not accommodate for an entire data center worth of people, regardless of if the server hamsters can handle 300 people showing up for S ranks and the rest locked out beating at the doors hoping to get in.

Yeah I can't see megaservers happening without instancing the zones themselves. Megaservers definitely have great benefits though, i hate how almost none of my friends play on my server, all my friends from previous games I've played who play FFXIV are scattered across many other servers on aether. With Megaservers, this would NOT be an issue at all.

[Tsumdere]

Yeah I can't see megaservers happening without instancing the zones themselves. Megaservers definitely have great benefits though, i hate how almost none of my friends play on my server, all my friends from previous games I've played who play FFXIV are scattered across many other servers on aether. With Megaservers, this would NOT be an issue at all.

Absolutely. Do not get me wrong, I wish that megaservers could be a thing, I just do not think they cannot right now without some serious reworking of the few open world activities that already exist.

[Delmontyb]

Absolutely. Do not get me wrong, I wish that megaservers could be a thing, I just do not think they cannot right now without some serious reworking of the few open world activities that already exist.

Oh yeah, there would need to be some system reworking for the current open world content. This isn't a light switch change, but I do hope we get there at some point in the near future.