Give OCE players a free transfer off their dead datacenter.

[Jojoya]

I wish instead of people saying, " get off the sinking ship." I wish they could say, " let's go help them save OCE."

People are basically selfish. They're not going to help unless they get some benefit out of the arrangement.

Many OCE players stayed on NA because of houses, statics and friends. Lack of houses in personal wards rules out those that were waiting until they can get a house. Lack of regional data center travel rules out those who want to keep playing with their friends and statics.

How do you get them to help when it means leaving behind the things that had been meaningful to them and nothing in return over a chance for improved ping (which a lot of players don't actually care about because it doesn't severely impact their style of game play).

The queue is shared across the entire DC, so it's not indicative of Ravana.
It also isn't an indication of the current logged in player count, it's just the amount of players logging into the DC at the same time, so they can regulate the flow of characters connecting in.

Are you certain about that? Log in queues on Coeurl most definitely are not shared with Balmung even though we're on the same data center. Start of expansion I was getting into the game within 15 minutes while Balmung friends would be stuck in queue 3-4 hours.

Agreed. Which is why I'm hoping these threads will provide enough feedback to SE that they'd consider opening cross region for OCE. I believe players would have been more comfortable moving in the first place if we knew we could still do content with our international friends weve shared since the game launched. Especially in terms of end game savage and ultimates.

But that has the potential to backfire if all the movement is from OCE to NA/EU, and none from NA/EU to OCE (other than players returning briefly to their home worlds).

The goal should be to make Materia an active data center, not pushing the population back to other data centers.