I’ve come to realise that materia needs help

[VelKallor]

Chrys, I am going to comment on this and bear in mind I am working from what I know, which is very little.

The past two years have been extremely trying for Square Enix. It may indeed be possible that regional datacentre travel was planned.

However, what may have eventuated is the system itself was not ready for implementation. It is also very likely that system errors and issues made it not possible without extra work and error resolution.

Imagine a player losing an eight year character in transit and not recoverable. Worst case scenario, I grant, but the fact remains that testing may have identified a high percentage of errors, or that further testing needs to be completed in order to eliminate identified issues.

That leads us to the option of datacentre connection, however I know nothing of what technical limitations may be involved without possibly relocating the actual datacentre. It may be the case that Materia CANNOT be connected to JP or NA without physical relocation. The logistics involved are unknown to us. Cost may be a factor but this is conjecture only.

Without further communication on the issue, the problem will remain unresolved.

[ChrysOCE]

Chrys, I am going to comment on this and bear in mind I am working from what I know, which is very little.

The past two years have been extremely trying for Square Enix. It may indeed be possible that regional datacentre travel was planned.

However, what may have eventuated is the system itself was not ready for implementation. It is also very likely that system errors and issues made it not possible without extra work and error resolution.

Imagine a player losing an eight year character in transit and not recoverable. Worst case scenario, I grant, but the fact remains that testing may have identified a high percentage of errors, or that further testing needs to be completed in order to eliminate identified issues.

That leads us to the option of datacentre connection, however I know nothing of what technical limitations may be involved without possibly relocating the actual datacentre. It may be the case that Materia CANNOT be connected to JP or NA without physical relocation. The logistics involved are unknown to us. Cost may be a factor but this is conjecture only.

Without further communication on the issue, the problem will remain unresolved.

Sure, and I understand that there could be technical limitations and there was the covid delay and there's old coding. But, while I do understand that those are factors, the situation with Materia is just unsatisfying. I think, probably with so many issues, if they would just communicate. Tell us that they recognize and are aware of our concerns. That they have concerns. Surely, they didn't go to the expense of setting up a whole DC, just to have it sit and quietly fester away? What are their plans to grow the DC? Just have us as on new world status, perpetually?