Give OCE players a free transfer off their dead datacenter.

[hagare]

SE know how many subscribers they have in each country, for a 100% fact.

say that again when SEA can actually register in SEA.
SEA pop in SE server right now = 0
When we all know that's not the reality

[Larirawiel]

Please.

As somebody who works a majory of the time, Oceanic is basically unplayable.

I'm paying a sub to sit in limsa watching queues go past the 30 minute mark, or party finders fill up over multiple hours.

Failed experiment is over, let us out.

Seriously? It beginns to be really pathethic. First, you whined for years, that you want an OCE data center. Now you got it and you whine again because you got what you wished for.




Cheers

[DixieBellOCE]

Seriously? It beginns to be really pathethic. First, you whined for years, that you want an OCE data center. Now you got it and you whine again because you got what you wished for.




Cheers

Yes its pathetic to log into a game, stand around in queues for hours and log out without managing to do anything at all.

SQE Dun goofed by not having the servers closer to SEA where the majority of the English speaking population of JP servers are from.

Yes, we wanted our own servers, but we want them done properly, not rushed out and left to die.

[Shibi]

Seriously? It beginns to be really pathethic. First, you whined for years, that you want an OCE data center. Now you got it and you whine again because you got what you wished for.

Thing is... we didn't whine for it. Maybe you confuse us with the endless Brazilian threads?

I do appreciate that SE decided out of the blue to give us one, but there wasn't a flood of forum topics asking for it. Questions to live letters rarely mentioned it. And, after Yoshi mentioned it in 2014 when he was here, there wasn't that much input from anyone. Really.

[Larirawiel]

Yes its pathetic to log into a game, stand around in queues for hours and log out without managing to do anything at all.

SQE Dun goofed by not having the servers closer to SEA where the majority of the English speaking population of JP servers are from.

Yes, we wanted our own servers, but we want them done properly, not rushed out and left to die.

Thing is... we didn't whine for it. Maybe you confuse us with the endless Brazilian threads?

I do appreciate that SE decided out of the blue to give us one, but there wasn't a flood of forum topics asking for it. Questions to live letters rarely mentioned it. And, after Yoshi mentioned it in 2014 when he was here, there wasn't that much input from anyone. Really.

We have a massive content dull, caused by covid-19 and many people take a break from the game due this. I play on NA- and EU-servers and there is also a lack of players at some point. If you do not the daily roulette, you have also to wait even as a tank. I know this because i play some alts.

It will become better with the next patch.




Cheers

[LaylaTsarra]

I wonder why they made so many servers for OCE.
Probably woulda been better if they made a single one considering their population numbers

I'm not sure that matters DF draws from all people in the Data Center so 3 or 5 wouldn't really matter in my view. It does offer more opportunity from the point of housing.

[Wolwosh]

And now instead of a lot of OCE playere having houses, most of them will be owned by bots, which also will be very apparent ^^"

[hagare]

I'm not sure that matters DF draws from all people in the Data Center so 3 or 5 wouldn't really matter in my view. It does offer more opportunity from the point of housing.

that just means less need for extra hardware.
Coulda used all those somewhere else

[Aurora_Sylphy]

Eh, during certain hours of the day, sure, queues are a bit longer. But even back when I was on Aegis before I transferred over, there were plenty of times queuing up for a dungeon/roulette/trial, etc took a while depending on the day, with peaks being Firday, Sat and Sunday, and pretty much it's the same thing on SEA. Just now rather then peak being 3h after peak here in Australia, it's actually on time. The ping is great and I have lots of friends here. DPS queues can be a pain sometimes, but that's an issue on all servers. Same for old content. It's kind of almost like a exaggeration. Yes, queue times are longer then others (due to lower population being new, even less so since housing was out, so we probably might see a spike once 6.1 drops.

The other thing is we are close to the end of a patch cycle content. Most of the casual players are not doing dungeons, roulettes, raids or other content, a lot of the main raiders already either have BIS, ilvl 600 gear, or are more then happy with the 590 tome gear and just upgrade that to 600 weekly when 6.1 drops and the new alliance raid drops a coin. Naturally, plenty of players have dropped off and out of content, but you should see a rise once 6.1 drops. I'm not saying the queues are great, but say queue time for a lot of older, non-current content on all other servers is like a 6/10 in pain waiting, OCE is like an 8/10. Is it worse? Sure. But it also might be confirmation bias because we are in the early days and the slightly longer queue times make you notice it more. In FF14 subreddits I've seen people with massive queues, complaining about not getting into older content without waiting hours on everything from NA to EU. Funnily enough, JPN probably has it the best since I'd imagine the player base is most active and populous there. Regardless, it means easier time getting a house, great ping, and I can still do content with my friend group, so... not really an issue, at least for me. Same with a lot of my in game community I go with. A large bunch of us all shifted over to OCE (Zurvan, and this is several small FCs and a fair few players). We also network over Discord (in fact we even got a mix of 24 people to do a blind run on the new alliance raid when it launches. So I guess it's also mitigated by if you came over by yourself or with others.

[ForteNightshade]

The ping is more than worth it for me and the OCE community will get bigger over time but if you moved her thinking it would be as booming as primal or crystal is big cope man.

This is, honestly, debatable. Square's handling of the OCE datacenter has been horrendous. And with nothing on the horizon to change how dead it's become, people are likely to transfer back to where they were instead of trying to make it work. They need to allow cross region transfer if only to JP otherwise OCE will suffer for a long time.