Materia/Oceanican Data Center needs help please!

[Anonemoose]

Materia was an opportunistic cash grab to bring in more revenue from OCE players during the Shadowbringers/Endwalker hype (and the global revolt against Blizzard/WoW) who resubscribed or bought the game for the first time because now the region had its own server. The reality, as it plain to see, is that the devs don't care to actually support or grow the datacentre beyond trying to plug a gap in their revenues for that financial year so they can make more gacha nft shit. Further, if they really cared about the region, why not have a Fan Fest in OCE? On another note, the gaslight gatekeep girlbossing from the weirdos who ran the Materia Discord did not help and just encouraged people to transfer back to NA or JP.

[Iscah]

Further, if they really cared about the region, why not have a Fan Fest in OCE?

While not a Fan Fest, they do have some kind of annual event in Melbourne on PAX weekend. I haven't gone though, so I'm not sure what it entails.

[Anonemoose]

I'm pretty sure that was just a once off to celebrate Materia launching and the release of Endwalker. That particular event had a few computers set up for people to challenge Zodiark Extreme to win a shirt and not much else. Again, low effort opportunism.

[Iscah]

I'm pretty sure that was just a once off to celebrate Materia launching and the release of Endwalker.

No, I've definitely seen them call for people to request tickets at least twice, because I've wondered about going at least that many times. And there would have been a gap in the middle with Covid blocking everything. We were very locked down for quite some time.

[DixieBellOCE]

Materia was an opportunistic cash grab to bring in more revenue from OCE players during the Shadowbringers/Endwalker hype (and the global revolt against Blizzard/WoW) who resubscribed or bought the game for the first time because now the region had its own server. The reality, as it plain to see, is that the devs don't care to actually support or grow the datacentre beyond trying to plug a gap in their revenues for that financial year so they can make more gacha nft shit. Further, if they really cared about the region, why not have a Fan Fest in OCE? On another note, the gaslight gatekeep girlbossing from the weirdos who ran the Materia Discord did not help and just encouraged people to transfer back to NA or JP.

Lmao the mods of that discord banned a solid 15-20 people i play with for asking what qualifications they have to run the official discord when they themselves were NA players that didn't even play on Materia.