Give OCE players a free transfer off their dead datacenter.

[Shibi]

Lucky Bancho stats are out.

These are the links (hopefully the google translated link sticks):

Sephirot - Japanese Translated
Ravana - Japanese Translated
Sophia - Japanese Translated
Zurvan - Japanese Translated
Bismarck - Japanese Translated

The Level distribution histograms tell a lot, they clearly show the number of "tourists", those who just used OCE for the 15 free days. They also show where the bulks of tanks/dps/healers are level wise.

FC numbers are interesting too, the level of 1 to 4 person FCs gives a moderate indication of shells.

Late edit:

Found out how to grab the combined DC stats.

Japanese Translated.

15,260 level 90 DPS / 9,489 level 90 tanks / 10,559 level 90 healers

Biggest FC has 413 characters.

[Tigerlilley]

Are you expecting NA to deal with bad ping while that was one of the reason you asked for an OCE server? Your bad ping?
The only good way for OCE to thrive, is to get more OCE people to play. So, get to recruiting people. Chop chop

Check my profile. I play on NA and so does my OCE community. Ping isn't an issue, never has been and I nor my community asked for an OCE datacentre. Happy they offered it, sad they leaving it to rot.

wonder why more OCE players don't have your way of thinking.
Just play in NA. Oh wait. They chose to play in JP DC instead xD

What are you on? The entire Aus/NZ community isn't on JP. How about you get a clue what you're talking about, chop chop.

holy shit that's twice of mine xD

What do you do with your great ping? Judging from your Lodestone, it's not any end game content. So, what do you know?

[Shibi]

And this graphic shows characters that existed in January then moved into Materia. Including the number who moved from each server and where they moved to.

23,829 transferred characters that existed at the start of the year 03/JAN/22 -> 10/APR/22.

[Zaniel]

Sorry but I had server queues on Friday night and there were around 20 PXSavage groups in the duty finder. No roulette is longer than 10 minutes even for DPS and most are 4-5 mins even at like 2am on a weeknight (and are insta pop for tanks and healers).

You'll have to pardon me if I take population complaints with a grain of salt.

[Divinemights]

No. I was expecting them to address the low population with the idea to open cross region with NA at least. Not utter radio silence. Everyone knew OCE was going to be extremely low pop.

That defeats whole purpose of OCE data center isn’t it?
Whole reason of OCE players to get their own datacenter is to resolve ping issue to begin with

[Kaurhz]

This is called the consequences of getting what you asked for.

[Iscah]

I have been spending most of my game time over the last month on a Sophia alt clearing post-ARR and then skipped to Shadowbringers, so cleaning up all the sidequest unlocks, Omega, Ivalice, Mhach. (Not sure if I want to do Alexander or enjoy not being available for A1N/A2N. Glamour needs will probably win out eventually.)

Getting into the raids for a clear has been a waiting process, but it can easily be like that on Elemental as well, having raised several alts there at times when the raids aren't current content. There's very often a party or two in PF to get into the Ivalice raids, and they do fill and run, so people aren't stuck as long as they have a bit of patience – but again that's nothing unique for unlocking old side content.

On the other hand, I suspect that there might be an imbalance towards tanks/healers and away from DPS, with too many people using them thinking it will be the quickest queue. Seeing "DPS in need" for levelling is not unusual and I have occasionally had an instant queue as DPS even if they're not displayed as the required role.

I also have not had much issue selling things. I bought up a fair bit of glamour on Elemental before transferring the character over, and have been selling it for more than I paid – not everything sells quickly but I've made the money back that I spent, so someone else has to be rich enough to pay admittedly inflated prices for glamour here currently. (But I trust that a trickle of undercutting will sort out the overpriced things, especially as more people move in and have things to sell.)

Overall, the data centre is fairly quiet but I'm not surprised when it's still new. Certainly not time to declare it a failed experiment already.

[Denji]

I think it's fairly well known that the OCE datacentre isn't for OCE players, it's to get rid of them for the Japanese.

Ehn.
A lot of posts have been "you get what you asked for!" when many were simply misled by — to be blunt — racist Japanese players who don't like sharing their servers.

I have a decent grasp of Japanese and honestly some of the things I've seen them say in the past is not only pretty terrible but it's very rare for the GMs to intervene. Don't even get me started on the things JP ff players say on twitter. (The jp user with the n-word retainer arguing it isn't racist immediately comes to mind...)

So all I'm saying is this isn't really OCE's fault.

[Lunalepsy]

The best solution would be to allow cross data centre travel between OCE and JP. This "logical" DC travel means nothing for OCE as there's only one OCE DC.

Like a nice pair! NA with EU and OCE with JP.

[Alpheus]

They should at least allow NA and EU to be able to visit OCE but it would make the JP servers look more like an outlier so it probably won't happen.