DC Travel and its decimation of non-Aether NA PF

[EorzeaWanderer]

I consider DC travel to be a failed experiment with a net-negative effect on the game. I loathe everything about it, from the logistics of using it to the way it has destroyed our PF (on Crystal) and harmed FC chat.

What was the purpose of it to begin with? I always thought it was supposed to be about allowing people to play with their friends. Well, just make it so you can’t initiate DF or PF, or create a party on another DC. If you’re really visiting friends this is a non-issue because they can invite you and set everything up.

[ForteNightshade]

DC travel seems to have caused more problems than anything. Party finder is a nightmare now, the new servers are dead, etc.

Without DC travel a good number of players never would have transferred to begin with. There simply isn't an incentive to essentially build a new DC for players. Couple that with a very poorly timed release and Dynamis was doomed from the start.

I consider DC travel to be a failed experiment with a net-negative effect on the game. I loathe everything about it, from the logistics of using it to the way it has destroyed our PF (on Crystal) and harmed FC chat.

What was the purpose of it to begin with? I always thought it was supposed to be about allowing people to play with their friends. Well, just make it so you can’t initiate DF or PF, or create a party on another DC. If you’re really visiting friends this is a non-issue because they can invite you and set everything up.

What would that accomplish? It just means one person out of seven needs to be from Aether to queue into say, P9S. Such a change would do absolutely nothing. If you mean to make it so you simply couldn't queue with non-Aether players on Aether then you've defeated the entire purpose of DC travel.

[CidHeiral]

Without DC travel a good number of players never would have transferred to begin with. There simply isn't an incentive to essentially build a new DC for players. Couple that with a very poorly timed release and Dynamis was doomed from the start.

I doubt that. New servers always take time to get off the ground but that is significantly impeded by everyone spending their time elsewhere. Not only does that make it a pain in the ass to do content but it undermines growing the community that in turn grows the server.