The only incentive to get me back to Materia is DC travel.

[DixieBellOCE]

Without DC travel Materia is a dead game outside of the ~8weeks of a new raid tier.

JP players don't want foreigners to cause problems on their DC, fair enough.

Remove Elemental from JP and move it to Singapore and designate it as an 'International DC' and link it with Materia and NA.

Leave the JP players in their isolated region, region lock it and give them exactly what they want.

Both parties win.

[Jojoya]

Without DC travel Materia is a dead game outside of the ~8weeks of a new raid tier.

JP players don't want foreigners to cause problems on their DC, fair enough.

Remove Elemental from JP and move it to Singapore and designate it as an 'International DC' and link it with Materia and NA.

Leave the JP players in their isolated region, region lock it and give them exactly what they want.

Both parties win.

Why would data center travel get you to go back to Materia and stay on Materia rather than just use data center travel to stay off Materia as much as possible?

If you (and other players) are just using Materia as your home world but not staying on it for group content, nothing is really solved.

[sagacious]

Why would data center travel get you to go back to Materia and stay on Materia rather than just use data center travel to stay off Materia as much as possible?

If you (and other players) are just using Materia as your home world but not staying on it for group content, nothing is really solved.

Freedom of movement always causes growth of the area you are free to move to and the one you left. The op'd is right and his solution sound.

[VelKallor]

Why would data center travel get you to go back to Materia and stay on Materia rather than just use data center travel to stay off Materia as much as possible?

As isolated as we are, population is a major issue, and I confess I dont know why they did this w/o data centre travel. As much as it pains me, as much as I want to stay on Materia, this aint working for me. Dixie, you know how much I have defended it, God knows I appreciate the fact we got these servers, the current setup is NOT working as it is now.


SEA gets better ping to JP than it does OCE ( SEA has a huge population we need in order to grow ), the hope that more would xfer was a mistake, as a lot just refused to leave their friends, houses, FC's ( which I fully understand ) , Materia SHOULD have been connected to a much larger DC or server cluster at incept, the lack of DC travel is killing us. Even one established JP server to kickstart population would have helped.

*sigh*

[DixieBellOCE]

As isolated as we are, population is a major issue, and I confess I dont know why they did this w/o data centre travel. As much as it pains me, as much as I want to stay on Materia, this aint working for me. Dixie, you know how much I have defended it, God knows I appreciate the fact we got these servers, the current setup is NOT working as it is now.


SEA gets better ping to JP than it does OCE ( SEA has a huge population we need in order to grow ), the hope that more would xfer was a mistake, as a lot just refused to leave their friends, houses, FC's ( which I fully understand ) , Materia SHOULD have been connected to a much larger DC or server cluster at incept, the lack of DC travel is killing us. Even one established JP server to kickstart population would have helped.

*sigh*

I remember how everyone defended it and abused me for calling it dead and leaving to go back to populated servers.

A few months later, its still dead and nothing has changed, and the copium is wearing thin.

The only friends that stayed on materia subscribe for 8 weeks of raid content then go play other games. The downtime between these patches is the issue.

Square enix either step in and make changes, or materia is just going to remain a ghost town forever.

[hagare]

you're gonna have to get them to admit SEA players exist first xD
We don't have even have our own version

[LianaThorne]

Bumping for the cause.

Even though I've also been one that's been jumped on for calling it dead (by some even in this thread), y'all should have a fair shot to have the DC grow and function. At the very least connect it to NA, the ping (at least in EST) is well enough to run current content there and no one really cares about who comes and goes here. XD

[VelKallor]

I remember how everyone defended it and abused me for calling it dead and leaving to go back to populated servers.

I defended it yes, but Dixie, fair go, I NEVER abused you. We may have disagreed on occasion, but never that.

(..and if I did, I humbly ask pardon...)

Square enix either step in and make changes, or materia is just going to remain a ghost town forever.

We agree..look I want those servers to make a go of it but we need more people or more connections, isolated, we just cant do it.

At the very least connect it to NA, the ping (at least in EST) is well enough to run current content there and no one really cares about who comes and goes here. XD\

Liana, check me on this, am I the only one, or do you agree with my guess that they established Materia with the intent of DC travel.........that somehow went pear shaped?

[Iscah]

The problem is, if they open up DC travel then everyone goes away from the DC to do their content where they have worse ping but more people.

So what's the point of having this DC in the first place? A very expensive way to have some extra housing wards available?

[DixieBellOCE]

The problem is, if they open up DC travel then everyone goes away from the DC to do their content where they have worse ping but more people.

So what's the point of having this DC in the first place? A very expensive way to have some extra housing wards available?

The point is actually having content to do.

When was the last time a 24man alliance raid popped outside of the 8-10pm gameplay rush on Materia?

Materia also suffers from the Multiple timezones/DST within our own country basically screwing NZ/Eastern AUS players out content at an appropriate time.