Upgrade the data center travel so we can go to other regions.

[Shibi]

I suppose we could have cross-region travel to everywhere except JP and have DC travel disabled entirely for JP if that's what they want.

I think most people agree, not seen many people actually say for NA/EU/Materia "it's a bad thing" as much as just argue minor points. I mean, if one person thinks elite raiding is the be all and end all, while another believes the MB is important - both are still for the idea.

But can SE do three out of four?

I giggle at their complaints about log in queues considering their largest population world is still smaller than the smallest NA world - and that largest population world is much bigger than the majority of JP worlds.

When you have 4 DCs all travelling to one, that one popular one gets 1800+ queues all the time. Thats what they say. So it's not so much about the sizes of their worlds, but total players on their DC all wanting to play on one. I don't think we see this with Balmung/Mateus.

[Jojoya]

When you have 4 DCs all travelling to one, that one popular one gets 1800+ queues all the time. Thats what they say. So it's not so much about the sizes of their worlds, but total players on their DC all wanting to play on one. I don't think we see this with Balmung/Mateus.

They're creating their own problem. Why congregate to a single world/data center when they were fine on their home data centers before data center travel? I can almost understand the new data center being empty but you would think its players were spreading out between the other 3, going back to their original data center.

If nothing else, it sounds like SE needs to be managing congestion better. Suspend incoming travel to the congested data center except for players returning to their home worlds. Allow data center travel from that data center to allow Travelers to get back to their home data center. Supposedly there was going to be something in place that allowed players to return to their home worlds during times of congestion.

Also, return characters to their home worlds/data centers if they are logged out for more than 10 minutes. They have to be logged out to travel between data centers already, they're forced to return to home world before going elsewhere, and 10 minutes is going to be more than enough time for someone who was disconnected to log back in (assuming it wasn't caused by a server crash). That's going to reduce log in congestion during prime time when everyone starts logging back in.

[VelKallor]

Making Materia data center that is an extremely low populated server, then choosing to isolate it from other data center is 100% a very stupid decision.

My guess is that they PLANNED DC travel but then stuff happened...

[SuperNoob]

I had a mist 35 large and i deco it really professional. I was one of the top spawner for s rank. Honeymoon period were fun. But after some months I realise off peak is difficult to get thing done. Pf weren’t as many. I made the decision to demo my mist 35 and left for balmung.

Now I seen so many peoples & getting thing popped were better. 110 pf on their peak times since I play morning on rest day.

I wouldn’t have left if SE allow dc travel for OCE.

[ArcaneToast]

I agree and I think this is needed. I'm one of the Elemental players who didn't move, or rather I did move and immediately went back due to friends not wanting to leave and abandon their Elemental communities. Now I have irl friends on OCE, JP and NA and it's definitely splitting up the oce players across multiple data centers, the issue is we cannot visit one another. If we did have DC travel then I'd absolutely be on Materia just for the ping. I'd happily move to Materia knowing I can still play with my friends and I won't be isolating myself. Even being on Elemental, I have friends on NA and I need an alt just to be able to play with them. Locking worlds and data centers is a pretty archaic online game system these days, and I'd love to see sqenix alleviate this entirely. Hopium.

[hynaku]

If they made it so could travel to JP datacenter, I would definitely use it since started the game on a JP datacenter.

[Aeidis]

Bump because honestly it’s so bad, and people are just moving away rather than players moving here. They need to do a really big campaign/incentive to get OCE players to move to the Data Center.

[Losara]

Honestly what I think they should have done from the beginning is put the datacentre in Singapore rather than Sydney (this coming from an Australian). This would have encouraged more of the players in SEA to move across to Materia.

As nice as low ping is, without a sufficiently large community the servers feel dead (mainly when attempting to use duty finder for example you can have 5-10 minute tank queues in the evening AEST, when I was on Behemoth in the past this would have been impossible.

Unless there are more incentives for players to remain on Materia it will just continue to bleed players until it becomes dead and the situation returns to what it was before Materia was created (overpopulated NA + JP DC)

As others have said we need data center travel and ideally some form of way to connect via duty finder to other DC's (happy to take the bad ping in order to get fast queues but it should be a toggle option).