Quote Originally Posted by AlzabetSmallberries View Post
So, this particular button drives me NUTS and really seems to serve no useful purpose.

Upon clicking "visit another world server" from character tab on login screen - you are instantly transported to a random server on your data center... (no confirm button if you mis-clicked the travel button) once you have been transported to another (random) world, you cannot use the 'return to home world' feature from login, you must log in and physically return your character to its home world via aetheryte in game.

This would not be so annoying if this useless button was not directly above the very useful "visit another data center" button...

The only time i have ever used the 'visit another world server' button has been when i am actually trying to travel to another data center and mis-clicked. then forcing the scenario above of having to relog into game, transfer to home world via aethy, log back out then correctly click the DC travel button.

As i do a lot of DC traveling, i have made this mistake more times than i'd like to admit haha... but honestly after doing it again last night i was left wondering what is the point of being sent to a random world on your server anyway? who uses this button on purpose & why?

and if anyone from squeenix notices this - please fix the functionality of this button with a confirm button and/or ability to 'return to home world' from login screen! I beg you!
It's intended for periods of very high log in congestion, like an expansion launch.

If I use EW launch and Crystal as an example: Balmung had 4-8 hour log in queues while some of the other Crystal worlds were 30-60 minutes. If the "visit another world" option had been available at the time, a Balmung player could get online to play on a Crystal world, still be able to send tells to their friends and talk in FC chat/cwls, and possibly use world visit to get back on Balmung faster than they could trying to log in to Balmung directly.