Cross Data Center Party Finder will it happen?

[giwaman]

What are your thoughts on having this feature one day?
Will NA Finally Submit to EU & JP and learn how to read and understand the meaning/reading Macros or will NA Resist???

[Stormpeaks]

What are your thoughts on having this feature one day?
Will NA Finally Submit to EU & JP and learn how to read and understand the meaning/reading Macros or will NA Resist???

JP will never, ever be linked to EU or NA, because of cultural reasons, JP doesnt want to play with NA or EU, they want to stay on their own DC with their own language.

[TaleraRistain]

Why can't people just leave NA alone to do our own thing? People are so comfortable trying to tell us how to run our region's DCs. Worry about your own.

[LianaThorne]

What are your thoughts on having this feature one day?
Will NA Finally Submit to EU & JP and learn how to read and understand the meaning/reading Macros or will NA Resist???

This was a boring attempt at getting a rise out of people. Do better.

[Mosha]

What are your thoughts on having this feature one day?
Will NA Finally Submit to EU & JP and learn how to read and understand the meaning/reading Macros or will NA Resist???

Really putting the mid in Midlander to work today, huh.

[Seraphor]

Maybe within geographical regions. Not cross-continent.

[dspguy]

JP will never, ever be linked to EU or NA, because of cultural reasons, JP doesnt want to play with NA or EU, they want to stay on their own DC with their own language.

That might be true, but logistically - in a game where ping matters, it would be pretty difficult to put JP, NA, EU and OCE players together all at once. Anyone that played FFXI could attest to the ridiculous ping problems with having NA or EU players on a JP-located server. At least this game doesn't really have "claim rights" on enemies. More often than not, if an NA player had to compete with a JP player for anything contested, they'd lose.

Players switched DC so they could play a game with reasonable ping. I don't think CW PF would show much interest after players see how poor the experience will be.

[TomsYoungerBro]

Maybe in the case of Regional cross data center PFs possibly, but you currently cant even travel to a different region's DC lol...

[Amarande]

Doubt it, simply because I would presume that would require the instance servers to be linked together as well - and one of the purposes of having separate logical data centers in the first place was specifically so that those resources would be spread out (remember Raubahn EX?).

I'd also like to see some of what little choice we still have of community partitions to play with remain a thing; the fact that "pile onto Aether" is such a popular approach already bothers me in that regard: it basically trends towards a community in which the hardcore culture gets to dictate the standards for everyone when it comes to getting a slot in an endgame party, while the more laid back communities are exterminated.

WoW has already shown the end result of this trend - I remember the days when someone behind the regional curve simply had to play on a similarly more laid back world and there was no problem. Now that it's one group finder pool per entire faction, so if you don't keep up with the national pace, you find yourself less and less allowed to even play the game (and preached at on Discord and forums that this is okay and you should just have put in more effort to keep up and are simply being the dreaded E word) until it's no longer worth your sub and you quit and pivot back to XIV.

At least we still have the option to travel to Crystal if we want a backwater. I'd hate to see that taken away by the Gilgamesh overlords as well (yes, I'm aware that not everyone who plays on Gilgamesh is like that, but it seems like players like that are permitted ever increasing power to control the entire culture of MMOs. Discord's platform policies are admittedly a problem as well, but that's probably another topic).

The sad thing though is that typically if you bring this critique of player pool mergers and its effects up, people talk to you like it's a good thing to forcibly hive mind everyone ...

[Absimiliard]

OP was really swinging for the fences on this one, eh? Thing about swinging too hard is that it normally causes you to miss.

At least we still have the option to travel to Crystal if we want a backwater. I'd hate to see that taken away by the Gilgamesh overlords as well (yes, I'm aware that not everyone who plays on Gilgamesh is like that, but it seems like players like that are permitted ever increasing power to control the entire culture of MMOs. Discord's platform policies are admittedly a problem as well, but that's probably another topic).

People keep sleeping on Crystal, but some of the best raiders in the world reside there - and not just on Gilgamesh. The trash is kept confined to two servers in that DC. Things are pretty great everywhere else.