Was it a mistake to deprioritize data center travel?

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Plus didn't they say they were only doing regional at first anyway? There's no guarantee it would have allowed cross-regional even by now.

I don't recall that being the case; however, if that is true, then it would make sense that it'd offer no benefit in this context. The idea was to help even load across the world by allowing players during a given DC's prime time the option to utilize the otherwise underutilized DCs in other regions.

Uhh have you seen world visit? I went to Balmung in a minute to play with a friend. Then when he went to bed I went back to Bryn. 9 HOURS i was stuck in Limsa waiting for it to queue down 20 people to get back.

If it takes 9 hours to get back to your HW, I imagine DC travel would take over 24.

I used world visit on multiple occasions prior to 6.0 and found it to function rather smoothly. I did hit a short queue from time to time, and only otherwise had problems with one alt when a certain streamer from WoW decided to roll on a different server in the same DC as a character I was playing around with at the time. Given that it was a single world hit with that spike in traffic, it was simple enough to avoid travel to that world, and since it wasn't my home world, didn't impact my ability to get back. I haven't tried it, or various other features that require a lighter current load on the servers, since the launch of 6.0, but I hear that the best way to return to the home world is to log out, then log in again while setting your character to log in to your home world from the login screen. That bypasses the low-priority visit queue to get in on the home world login queue which processes much faster in this context. There's another thread here discussing that if you want to know more.

It's also why I said for the next expansion I'd make sure I was prepared to go long periods of time without retainer access by having lots of open inventory space for quest rewards and the like. Of course, if data center travel isn't global by then, then there isn't much point.

[TaleraRistain]

I don't recall that being the case; however, if that is true, then it would make sense that it'd offer no benefit in this context. The idea was to help even load across the world by allowing players during a given DC's prime time the option to utilize the otherwise underutilized DCs in other regions.

I want to say they mentioned it in one of the Live Letters.