What do you think will happen to a failed data center?

[Edelgarde]

Mao remembers a time when people had a modicum of patience. Takes time to build up a mature population. BE PATIENT.

Materia is nearing it's 10th month, with 30% of the most active players in OCE already transferring back because they want to do content at any time we want, leaving the casuals and remaining hardcore players to stay, continuing to hurt their own experience in the game and given a choice on whether it's worth it to stay or not.

The data center started off completely fine, until 3 months went by and a huge chunk of the most active people in OCE were like "Ping is great, but we want to do content at any given time, so we're gonna piss off now and not support the community." After those three months, Materia has just being getting smaller and smaller. But you can't see that, because you think you know better, despite not being the witness. You're not in this data center.

"BE PATIENT"? How about you transfer here yourself and see the decay of players that Materia is still experiencing? It's not going to increase. It's going to continue losing players until it nears the next expansion release. There is no way it's growing until then.

Want to know why I know so much about it? Because I've been observing the state of the data center every single day. Patience is not gonna solve it. Are you talking about patience of "Wait till next expansion release", or "Wait another 6 months?"