6.18 Cross DC travel should have come out BEFORE summer not after

[Zer0ofTime]

Just way more logical for people who have friends to play with before summer starts than wait till after it's over.

[TheMightyMollusk]

What are these "friends" you speak of?

[dapperfaffer]

What are these "friends" you speak of?

Devilish fiends from far away. They are called friends.

[Zer0ofTime]

I heard someone talk about them once. I'll let you know when I find some what they are!

[Midareyukki]

It's all a ploy!

If you think about it, most people start working after summer vacations. That means less people playing. Less people playing = Less people overloading the servers. Which means they can better control\gauge the server load of the data center travel system!

/tinfoil hat

[gotaname1]

It's all a ploy!

If you think about it, most people start working after summer vacations. That means less people playing. Less people playing = Less people overloading the servers. Which means they can better control\gauge the server load of the data center travel system!

/tinfoil hat

Oi! I'm supposed to be the one with tinfoil hat around here!

I need tinfoil hat glam...

[KuroMaboroshi]

[...]Less people playing = Less people overloading the servers. Which means they can better control\gauge the server load of the data center travel system!

/tinfoil hat

While as people have already shown it will release in summer and to claim otherwise is nonsense (though not in line with every country's usual summer vacation times since down that road lies only madness anyway with how many countries there are where these things vary), this is by no means tinfoil. The developers have publically stated that the reason for not releasing DC travel as originally planned alongside 6.0 was the high influx of players. If anything were to go wrong with it during 6.0, it would have affected a huge amount of people, on top of the server congestion issues they had around expansion launch. So you can be 100% certain the lower load around 6.18 is the reason they release it there.
However, this is due to the usual patch cycle and I doubt has anything to do with which country does its usual summer vacation at what time. There are just too many countries in XIV's area of operations to plan around that.

As for actual speculation, I doubt it'll be a problem of server load, since the system will have waiting times associated with switching DCs during times of high server load.
However, back when world travel was first introduced, they ran into a bug pretty quickly, that left some of us stranded on worlds other than our home worlds for a few days. While they will no doubt try to bug-proof the feature as much as they can, there is no such thing as 100% certainty no bugs will occur. If fewer people are using the feature when it is released due to it being at the end of a patch when no other content comes out except for that feature, they can minimise the people affected by potential issues during the first few days.

As someone who was stuck on a different world with no access to retainers for a few days back then, I will also be *very* cautious about using DC travel the first few days.

[ZeraSkiratea]

Just way more logical for people who have friends to play with before summer starts than wait till after it's over.

i dont know in what world you live... but.. it isnt even summer or it JUST started depending on definition(meterlogical, or astronomical being 31st of may and 21st of june in the norther hemisphere respectivly)
patch 6.18 is planned for July as far as we know.... thats smag dab in the middle of summer regardless of definition
Most countrys also have Summer holidays for schools starting end of May to end of july and going between 6 weeks and over 3months(germany and the US as examples here(latest german schools start summer holiday is end of july(or 1st of august), going into mid to late september and earliest is end of may, going into late mid july ) which OBVIOUSLY will only impact people still going to school. which isnt to ignore tho.


Case and point "summer hasnt even really started yet if we go Astronomical.
at worst it will be implemented at halway trough summer, smack dab in the middle of summer vacation for a considerable number of school goers.

[Shibi]

i dont know in what world you live... but.. it isnt even summer or it JUST started depending on definition(meterlogical, or astronomical being 31st of may and 21st of june in the norther hemisphere respectivly)
patch 6.18 is planned for July as far as we know.... thats smag dab in the middle of summer regardless of definition
Most countrys also have Summer holidays for schools starting end of March to end of july and going between 6 weeks and over 3months(germany and the US as examples here(latest german schools start summer holiday is end of july(or 1st of august), going into mid to late september and earliest is end of may, going into late mid july ) which OBVIOUSLY will only impact people still going to school. which isnt to ignore tho.


Case and point "summer hasnt even really started yet if we go Astronomical.
at worst it will be implemented at halway trough summer, smack dab in the middle of summer vacation for a considerable number of school goers.

Have to admit, I've got Déjà vu on this one. We had the forum argument about seasons last year!

[ZeraSkiratea]

Have to admit, I've got Déjà vu on this one. We had the forum argument about seasons last year!

thanks for that laugh.


people really need to remember the difference between meterological, and astronomical seassons.
Meterological cares about the weather(aka "meteorology"), so summer starts earlier. at the START of a month(makes it easier for calculations and averages etc)

Astrological only care about the Earths rotation around the sun, so it starts later, regardless of what day it is, at the Summer equinox(spring at Vernal equinox, fall at Autumnal equinox, and Winter at the Winter solstice)and seassons arent quite 3 months long as well(but slightly under and over by a few days each)