SE: Open up Regional Travel for OCE PLEASE !

[DixieBellOCE]

I'm entering day 5 of trying to get an Aglaia queue. My fc is telling me that 4 hours is a usual wait time and I'm better to start a PF and ask people to join it.

I'm just...depressed. It's depressing.

Everyone keeps saying 'OCE IS FINE' out of desperation that people will stay.

I moved back to Tonberry, cleared P1s/P2s/Ex3 in duty finder in under 30 minutes and then took less than 5 minutes to queue for Aglaia... I honestly don't think ill ever return to Materia after this.

Materia does not have the playerbase to support people that actually want to play the game, the RP community seem to enjoy it, so let them just live there by themselves.

[Tigerlilley]

Everyone keeps saying 'OCE IS FINE' out of desperation that people will stay.

I moved back to Tonberry, cleared P1s/P2s/Ex3 in duty finder in under 30 minutes and then took less than 5 minutes to queue for Aglaia... I honestly don't think ill ever return to Materia after this.

Materia does not have the playerbase to support people that actually want to play the game, the RP community seem to enjoy it, so let them just live there by themselves.

ah so you moved back. My main is still on Behemoth and people are starting to trickle back from Materia

I understand people wanting to say OCE is fine to keep up appearances and attract players but its disingenuous and poor feedback to go to SE.

[Zaniel]

I'm entering day 5 of trying to get an Aglaia queue. My fc is telling me that 4 hours is a usual wait time and I'm better to start a PF and ask people to join it.

I'm just...depressed. It's depressing.

I have no idea what you are doing, 4 hours is completely misleading. I get into Aglaia within 10-15 minutes EVERY week on Materia, I have had like one time in that entire period when I tried to queue at around 3am and it wouldn't pop and when I went back the next day at normal hours, bang 10 minutes again. So I have to call shenanigans on your queue time story. Last week I ran Aglaia 5 times in one week to get my last BLM item and every time it popped easily.

[Tigerlilley]

I have no idea what you are doing, 4 hours is completely misleading. I get into Aglaia within 10-15 minutes EVERY week on Materia, I have had like one time in that entire period when I tried to queue at around 3am and it wouldn't pop and when I went back the next day at normal hours, bang 10 minutes again. So I have to call shenanigans on your queue time story. Last week I ran Aglaia 5 times in one week to get my last BLM item and every time it popped easily.

This is my queue, right now. Right at this minute. 4.55pm NZT, Saturday afternoon, 2 July. All I want to do is finish the story.


Edit: Just queued for P2 story on Primal for the comparison, queue popped in 7 minutes.

I didn't test further than 72 minutes on Aglaia during the week because I quit. My fc member said they waited 4 hours and I believe them. OCE needs help and I just can't understand why people are pretending it doesn't.

[DixieBellOCE]

This is my queue, right now. Right at this minute. 4.55pm NZT, Saturday afternoon, 7 July. All I want to do is finish the story.



I didn't test further than 72 minutes on Aglaia during the week because I quit. My fc member said they waited 4 hours and I believe them.

I've sat in queue for Hyperborea for almost 3 hours as MCH before taking a week off from the game out of disappointment, was during that week that i decided to move back to jp.

People saying OCE are fine are the same people that don't do content and sit around in limsa ERPing all day.

The real players are not on OCE.

[Aragon]

Everyone keeps saying 'OCE IS FINE' out of desperation that people will stay.. Materia does not have the playerbase to support people that actually want to play the game, the RP community seem to enjoy it, so let them just live there by themselves.

I'm entering day 5 of trying to get an Aglaia queue. My fc is telling me that 4 hours is a usual wait time and I'm better to start a PF and ask people to join it.

I'm just...depressed. It's depressing.

I believe it because it had taken my character over an hour just to get 2 simple duties to pop on sephirot. And i cant stand playing an MMO that looks like a waste land with what seems like lack of player life.

I was initially worried that we were going to have 3 (and 2 down the road) servers but like in corporate fashion they decided to add 5 servers straight out (due to EW & to clear up their schedule) for what is now most likely only 10k active players and people tend to play 1 character at a time obviously..
There also is clearly an on going exodus of Materia occurring that needs to be reversed, and by the time they add it to their schedule to revisit this in 5 - 10 years most player will have dispersed back to other Regions and will be reluctant to come back a second time. So that's why i think this needs to be resolved asap.

I'm more frustrated.. when I made a good hearted suggestion I was greeted by those generic Brand Cultists that lurk the forums 24/7. I really want to see an accommodation of the worlds into 2 Ravana and Sophia (with a later option of 3) even if we triple our player base there simply is no need for 5-8 servers..
Let's see if SE sees this issue too.

[Tigerlilley]

Ok it's now, nearly 6:20pm and I've been in this queue for Asphoedelos story since 3. I give up.

Let's see if SE sees this issue too.

I hate to be so pessimistic but I don't think they really look at these forums. I hope they use metrics like medium queue times and clear rates that they do look at but I think realistically they're just not going to do anything about it.

o7 I think I'm done attempting to give feedback on this now. Good luck, everyone

[WillIrishclover]

Personally my opinion is, if the issue is only one DC region holding cross region travel up. then exclude Japan from cross region DC travel. OCE-NA-EU can travel between each other, Japan is locked off, seems a fair way to solve it.

They've outright said they have the tech for cross region travel, let the other DCs have it and if the Japan playerbase starts having a fit over not getting it, then give them it as well.

[WillIrishclover]

[QUOTE=Tigerlilley;6008453]Ok it's now, nearly 6:20pm and I've been in this queue for Asphoedelos story since 3. I give up.



I hate to be so pessimistic but I don't think they really look at these forums. I hope they use metrics like medium queue times and clear rates that they do look at but I think realistically they're just not going to do anything about it.


Ultimately at some point if the playerbase issue on OCE is as bad as stated here, SE will have to intervene.

[Osteichthyes]

Queue times are definitely hard to swallow, basically you have to know when the server is doing things. Additionally, while it already had a small population, it is now even smaller since we are in the "content drought" section. Other data centers can get away with this since there will still be a decent number of players around, even with a large portion going on break. OCE on other hand just doesn't have the population to not be affected.

If we had more people who transferred to OCE on launch from both OCE and SEA, then the server would be completely fine, but that was never going to happen. People already had established friends and communities, and staying was the safe option. Even if the server was in SEA, it would still have the same problem where most players wouldn't move. It wouldn't be as bad, but it would still be pretty bad.

NA, JP, and EU have huge advantages of having players other time zones, across the world, or having large populations where people work night shifts or just play really late, which OCE really doesn't so once it's no longer peak hour, the queue really goes up.

Unfortunately, there really isn't much that the devs can do about it since it's a demographic issue and not a development issue. You can get things done on OCE, it just takes a little effort and a lot of PF. OCE is pretty much 100% PF to make up for the lower numbers, and it's almost always a good idea to throw one up. Instead of queueing and hoping that other people will queue for roulette, PF just let's you advertise your intent, and you can generally get things done if DF isn't playing nice. That is not to say it's guaranteed, many a PF has timed out, but it is your best option.

That being said, I made the move and I'm planning on making the most out of it. OCE has a ton of potential, but until we get more access to playing with other regions, it's going to be a lot of wait times (unless a ton of people decide to move, which won't happen). I'm really going to be more decided on patch day since that's when everyone should be coming back.

I'd kill for some hard statistics from the developers though.