Cloud DC Proves Cross-Region Travel is OK

[Stormpeaks]

How can we be completely sure of that without seeing what happens when it's not used for High-End raids? If you don't need to go for High-End raids, there's no point in going at all for normal content like dungeons, which are going to be trivial to complete and trivial to get queues for due to roulettes.

They probably just do normal content on Aether because they are there already for raids and it's convenient.

Let's stop spreading the communities even further, it's already bad enough as it is, as I mentioned above, DC travel literally killed Dynamis on arrival, it's a dead DC now.

What you are asking for is to spread that community even more.

Stop.

There are literally 2 "big" fcs on Seraph which is the biggest on the entire dynamis, with fery vew in between, every other fc is under 10 players and struggles to recruit with most of them disbanding.

Stop making it worse for us on dynamis.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Yeah lets base that opinion on a minority of people playing on the cloud DC.

JP players have always said no to cross region, they dont want english speaking people.

Im so sick and tired of this bullshit separatism especially in an MMO. It goes against the spirit of the genre and honestly this was supposed to be the intention for the philosophy of FFXI and FFXIV, otherwise we wouldnt have such a thing as an auto-translate feature.

You cant get away from toxicity. It exists in every culture. But that shouldnt be the reason for not allowing players from all over the world play with each other.

[Stormpeaks]

Im so sick and tired of this bullshit separatism especially in an MMO. It goes against the spirit of the genre and honestly this was supposed to be the intention for the philosophy of FFXI and FFXIV, otherwise we wouldnt have such a thing as an auto-translate feature.

You cant get away from toxicity. It exists in every culture. But that shouldnt be the reason for not allowing players from all over the world play with each other.

If the massive majority of their community is agaisnt it, it shouldnt be forced upon them.

[CidHeiral]

DC travel is having an increasingly negative impact on the game. It shouldn't be expanded into more regions, it should be disabled.

[Atelier-Bagur]

If the massive majority of their community is agaisnt it, it shouldnt be forced upon them.

Im sure a regular of the JPN forums and their other media outlets for feedback such as yourself can confirm this.

[Atelier-Bagur]

DC travel is having an increasingly negative impact on the game. It shouldn't be expanded into more regions, it should be disabled.

I think servers in general need to be condensed into mega servers like in ESO. This is the ideal although the tech and structure in FFXIV's case prevents them from doing something this major. I think its really odd to have these isolated communities in an MMO and its no wonder why the genre feels stagnated at times.

[Bonoki]

Im so sick and tired of this bullshit separatism especially in an MMO. It goes against the spirit of the genre and honestly this was supposed to be the intention for the philosophy of FFXI and FFXIV, otherwise we wouldnt have such a thing as an auto-translate feature.

You cant get away from toxicity. It exists in every culture. But that shouldnt be the reason for not allowing players from all over the world play with each other.

I'm with Stormpeaks on this one. The separatism is actually real. The only actual coming together I really see with the community is in Discord servers which are usually owned and operated by community influencers. Outside of that, it's RP venues and not much else.
I think the spirit of what an MMO is has long since been lost as it's now just congregating within discord servers where I often feel like I have no incentive to even talk to the others. I interact with other people less and less the longer I play this game.

[Jeeqbit]

Let's stop spreading the communities even further

Nothing wrong with being able to visit friends in other regions, or participate in activities on other data centers without having to make an entirely new character with entirely new progression. That is the main reason anyone would actually want DC travel.

It is just the minority going to Aether "because it's a raid data center" that thus causes the majority to notice a dip in activity and feel pressured to go there as well and tell their friends they need to as well. But that is an easy fix if they prevent public High-End PFs being joined by travelers.

DC travel literally killed Dynamis on arrival

That's a separate issue affecting new data centers only and caused by the fact they are new. They should only allow travel to Dynamis, not from, until it's established its own active population enough that can supply content properly.

[MsMisato]

Japanese, NA, EU, OCE and other players have all played together on the Cloud data center and it has been fine. All we did was use auto-translate to say "Hello" and "Good game" and "Thank you" and communicating with JP players worked fine. It was even fine in dungeons as well.

All these concerns about culture clashes seem unfounded.

it's a single test server for stress testing. it doesn't really test cross region wise if anything you can easily go to a JP DC and play there. Just because people are gathered together testing doesn't mean they want cross region and the JP players has adamantly expressed they don't want cross region for years and Yoshi is probably going to keep it that way.

[MsMisato]

Im so sick and tired of this bullshit separatism especially in an MMO. It goes against the spirit of the genre and honestly this was supposed to be the intention for the philosophy of FFXI and FFXIV, otherwise we wouldnt have such a thing as an auto-translate feature.

You cant get away from toxicity. It exists in every culture. But that shouldnt be the reason for not allowing players from all over the world play with each other.

then transfer your character there.