Limited Cross Region DC Travel

[Larirawiel]

What an absolute waste of resources.

I highly doubt it, that it costs them resources. Because the general functionality for DC travel is already implemented. Maybe they have to adjust some other things like rollback timeouts etc. because of the much higher network latencies.


Cheers

[WillIrishclover]

I hope this test is a success.

As i've always said on this, i strongly suspect the 'cultural issues' the team are worried about is backlash from the Japanese playerbase, if thats the issue then just make it so Japan can't be cross region dc travelled to.

[EstelleCere]

I'm excited for this, as others have said, I think the cloud DC tests have shown that people can coexist normally without having huge issues. I hope eventually they will let us travel to other places aside from Oceania, because I have friends on EU servers that I want to hangout with again easier than with my alt.

I also feel like, that they probably will end up enabling the cross-DC party finder stuff eventually, because people are going to give their feedback once they open up this test, and I am sure people are going to mention it. I also want to assume they probably already know people want this because of how many people have suggested it.

Either way I feel like this could be a nice thing implemented, would just need some tweaking and feedback.

[Aravell]

I'm glad that they mentioned server economy and they're aware of the economy difference between regions. I think that's a much larger issue to solve rather than cultural differences as an economic crash would directly affect the gameplay for crafters.

[littlehobbit13]

I'm shocked by how many replies -- given the shit show that DC travel become in killing whole PFs -- are like "omg this sounds like the best thing ever I can't foresee any way this wouldn't just be an overall win".

Honestly, this just sounds like opening Pandora's box to me. They haven't finished working out issues for the problems players are expressing concerns over with DC travel, but they're like "region travel is the answer"? I don't have the warm fuzzies from this news, and I think doing it with OCE to start is going to give some false positives about how well a full implementation would go.

[Anienai]

More people can come to Dynamis!!!

[Hasrat]

I hope this test is a success.

As i've always said on this, i strongly suspect the 'cultural issues' the team are worried about is backlash from the Japanese playerbase, if thats the issue then just make it so Japan can't be cross region dc travelled to.

It could also be that this test is designed to give flawed results. "We're opening the gates (to OCE) so everyone can experience regional mixing!" JP players: "Why would I want to go region traveling when I have everything I need on home DC?"

Almost like it's set up for demonstrating "ok, all the other data centers can get along fine, we'll just keep JP locked and isolated."

[GTK0HLK]

It could also be that this test is designed to give flawed results. "We're opening the gates (to OCE) so everyone can experience regional mixing!" JP players: "Why would I want to go region traveling when I have everything I need on home DC?"

Almost like it's set up for demonstrating "ok, all the other data centers can get along fine, we'll just keep JP locked and isolated."

Basically/Effectively making JP just like KR/CN or other locked off regions.
[Except they aren't, but for some actual reasons, and mostly unreasonable points they believe it'll be hell in their servers.

<Can't Blame them with how a bunch if "Tourists" have been trashing their other entertainment mediums with BS> ]

[CaptainLagbeard]

Europe to Oceania is probably the worst idea for cross-region travel... The latency from EU to NA isn't always even great, going an even bigger distance isn't going to help...

[Abriael]

I too hope that the barriers between data centers fall completely. We're in 2024 and we live in a globalized world. It's absolutely nonsensical to keep players segregated by region.

Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 had no such issue, and their communities absolutely benefited from it. I was there for both since the very start and I can testify to that. As a matter of fact, they both had better communities than FFXIV post-2.0.

Cultural differences should be embraced, not shunned. They're an added value and not a liability.

As for the differences in economy, that's absolutely irrelevant. There are plenty of differences in economy between data centers of the same region, and even between servers of the same data center. That did not discourage them from opening world travel and then data center travel, making that objection to cross-region travel simply an excuse.

That's even more obvious when they open the Oceanian data center to everyone, and that's the one with the biggest difference since it's the newest.

Back in 2019, I interviewed Yoshi-P, and he drew this.



It's exactly what you think it is, as an illustration of what he told me, that the ultimate goal was to remove all barriers between regions.

I hope we still get that, because in 2024 these barriers make absolutely zero sense.