According to Yoshi P. they are looking into Cross-Data Center Play? Hmmm...

[Theodric]

You can't escape Crystal, Aether.

[Gwenorai]

This terrifies me, I've heard things of nightmares regarding NA. I can only take so much.

Really though, if they're going to do this then at a certain point it's just a matter of 'get a mega server'.

[Wyssahtyn]

Can't wait to see Aether's and Primal's tourists pop around to Balmung's Ul'dah to turn it into an even bigger trashpile like the other Crystal worlds have done.

[RyuDragnier]

Can't wait to see Aether's and Primal's tourists pop around to Balmung's Ul'dah to turn it into an even bigger trashpile like the other Crystal worlds have done.

THROW WIDE THE GATES THAT WE MAY PASS!

[Bonbori]

Given the unequivocally positive effect cross-world had on the economy by breaking up monopolies and normalising prices across the board, I'd welcome an even bigger, even more stable market.

And I guess allowing more people to do duties together would on paper be good too, although I'm not sure how instance-servers would cope with multiple regions. When people from JP, NA and EU go into a duty, would they have to draw straws on whose region gets to host the server?

[AnimaAnimus]

idk, after years of XI, I really don't want to do duties with jp players. We complain about NA a lot and blow lots of smoke about how precious and wonderful everything from japan is, but jp groups were downright hostile and incredibly nasty to na players in ffxi. I was relieved when we got split. Ppl think the community is toxic as is? Just wait for the jp only and vote kicks.

[Zsplash]

This is the sort of measure usually done when a game is shrinking.

From megaservers to phasing tricks...

FFXIV is instead growing, so I wonder what the motives would be.

Technically it's done because a game can't keep growth up forever, I've really seen no evidence of the game's supposed growth though... this is just the average expansion bump from all I've seen. But even so, they implemented cross server ages ago. Just not cross DC, which was ridiculously dumb of them because cross server usually implies the above anyways. That cross DC wasn't implemented most likely meant they had no idea how to create a true mega-server configuration, and it was implemented because of dying servers iirc back then?

Now previously struggling servers have more players because there's no huge need to flock to the same server for content, crystal itself proves there's not that many players though I'd say. In theory there's no reason Crystal should be lower population than other DCs other than how it was a mistake to not just build cross DC to begin with like all other mmorpgs do.

[Moonlite]

If they completely link MB what would the complaint be? Right now it is a mess. If everyone buys and sells at the same spot they all have the same opportunities, minus the cheaters of course(probably have to just live with them). To try to keep the amount of items up for sale down they could increase the sale stack to 999 and adjust tax to incentivize bigger stacks. I get that would suck, I also don't want to buy 999 when I only need one. But they always complain to much data, the hamsters can't keep the servers running.


To the cross regions. It would be fun as just open world stuff. Lets not put to much lag into the equation. Who cares what the lag is on a hunt or fate, but we don't need a repeat of the 2.0 people dodging before moves because the move was finishing before even showing up. Also JP players were fine in 11 I always felt "JP ONRY" was more meme any ways. Have the gear,spells, and play at a competent level. Never had any problems. I always felt they respected the time you put into the character more then what you get into 14. Not that you have to farm for 3 months to have a vermillion cloak, haubby+1, or scorp harness+1.

[Zsplash]

Cross region won't happen, there's a reason it's not implemented anywhere.

[CookiesNCreams]

Isn’t this bad for people who moved servers/data centers specifically to avoid being harassed by certain players? I don’t think Yoshida is really thinking about the consequences of doing this, at all.