Give OCE players a free transfer off their dead datacenter.

[Duskane]

Square's handling of the OCE datacenter has been horrendous.

which part

[LaylaTsarra]

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

Hardware for what? No they need more than 1 or 3 or 5 servers for that matter to eventually grow the DC. The EU is a case in point where the log in queues were terrible when Endwalker hit and there are now plans to add additional servers to help with those problems. Planning for growth is important. What is needed right now is permission to DC travel for OCE when that is implemented in a later patch for all and that would fix most of the issues.

They could also strengthen and increase the time of the transfer bonuses and new character creation bonuses to entice more to come.

which part

Yeah I'd like to know too. Only issue I see is the delaying of housing purchases for too long and now planning for a lotto system in all housing districts. Many who see that are certainly not about to give up housing to transfer to OCE I know I wouldn't. One of the major draws in addition to ping is certainly playing with friends and housing.

I have an alt playing on Sophia and most content queues fine for me other than the 24 person raids. I suspect Savage content is hurting but I think many who transferred there expected that to be an issue.

[Tabmow]

currently leveling a 82 bard, i cant get a "Tower of Zot" party at 9:49pm AEST on Australian servers. they are dead.

[yaboislick]

But you all asked for OCE data center, so now why you complained it's dead? Clearly you should know how much people gonna play there...

Wow, so insightful. Thank you Knot!
Of course people dont want to play on a dead server. Simple as that.

[NotMika]

OCE is populating slower than crystal did, come the 27th-30th there is gonna be a mass exodus unless square implement cross datacentre travel with at least elemental.

the people that are like "you asked for oce servers now stay kekw" obviously don't know we have been asking this for 10 years.
Yes we finally got it, but that's 10 years of friendships and connections we had to just dismantle to move.

Come 6.1 some may move over due to housing, but at given anytime there is more people sitting in Limsa doing nothing than there is PF's for content.

It took me 3 days to do endsinger on a fresh alt.
THREE DAYS for MSQ content...

At the time of this post, the ping dif is not a good enough reason to stay.

I don't agree with the free xfer back, but i do ask for square to address something like cross realm travel to elemental to keep the population afloat come unlock day.

[Duskane]

I'm all for the DC visit to be a bit more wide spread
but "just go Que on JP" doesn't really fix the "problem"

[ForteNightshade]

which part

Housing and no Datacenter travel, specifically. Both are a pretty big incentive to keep the DC active. Personally, I don't think releasing on the cusp of a raid tier was a good idea either since nobody was going to leave existing statics on the off-shot OCE had a population.

[Duskane]

Housing and no Datacenter travel, specifically. Both are a pretty big incentive to keep the DC active. Personally, I don't think releasing on the cusp of a raid tier was a good idea either since nobody was going to leave existing statics on the off-shot OCE had a population.

did you expect housing to be open early despite this DC being out for only 3 months

[DezereDawn]

I'm all for the DC visit to be a bit more wide spread
but "just go Que on JP" doesn't really fix the "problem"

see my hope is more the opposite, clearly oce players want to play here but already have ties on NA/JP with their statics, but if they could come over here to do their queueing when they're not tied up with those groups it would keep queues here at least much healthier than they are

honestly, the fact SE waited nearly 10 years to implement OCE pretty much guaranteed that a large, LARGE portent of the players from the region will never move here because they have friends and fcs over in other regions, our best hope for permanent userbase would be new players, which sadly with how late OCE dropped, the new wave of Endwalker players was before they existed anyways.

[Tigerlilley]

see my hope is more the opposite, clearly oce players want to play here but already have ties on NA/JP with their statics, but if they could come over here to do their queueing when they're not tied up with those groups it would keep queues here at least much healthier than they are

honestly, the fact SE waited nearly 10 years to implement OCE pretty much guaranteed that a large, LARGE portent of the players from the region will never move here because they have friends and fcs over in other regions, our best hope for permanent userbase would be new players, which sadly with how late OCE dropped, the new wave of Endwalker players was before they existed anyways.

I would LOVE to be able to pop over on my main account in NA and help our OCE community with queues and clears and stuff. The JPs so worried that people are coming to raid their PFs.... nah fam. I just want to play with mates. And as far as I can see, everyone else who wants cross region is hoping for that exact same thing.