[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[Rogovi]

There was very little thought put into the actual repercussions of this change. All it does is punish players that decided to make friends or join raid groups outside of their data center. Punishing players for using a game feature to play and interact with more people in an MMO just doesn't make sense. All it does is segment the community into their own little server ecosystems, making it so data center travel might as well just not exist at all.

I was lucky enough to log in early enough to travel to my static's data center for raid tonight and now I am actually terrified to log out as there is a good chance that I will not be able to log back into their data center for our next raid night.

I data center travel every single raid night in order to raid so I do not see a problem with Aether being the server everyone piles onto to use party finder, especially if the alternative is to seriously inconvenience every single cross data center group in the game whether they be hard core raid groups or casual social groups.

If you want to actually fix people piling into aether for party finder then the solution is cross data center party finder, and if you are worried about people having to data center travel for duty roulette then consider incentivizing people with some extra experience or tomes for using duty roulette on their home world.

This change is the most anti-fun change this game has introduced for both the casuals and hard core players and does nothing but make me frustrated to try and play with my friends.

[VoidsentStatus]

the solution is cross data center party finder, and if you are worried about people having to data center travel for duty roulette then consider incentivizing people with some extra experience or tomes for using duty roulette on their home world.
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They already mentioned both of these and why they won't work/aren't preferred.
The first is 2-3+ years of resources assuming it's even possible. And they have to weigh all of that time against something that's more beneficial to the game.
The second just shifts the data center that everyone loads into including overwhelming the native people's login queue timers.

They literally talked about shutting off cross data center on stream as one of the solutions if things came down to it because at the end of the day, breaking up statics and venues is better having 75% of your region with no access to current raid tier PF content. If people actually handled the responsibility of data center travel properly and just visited other worlds instead of staying there all day and doing everything from there content wise, we wouldn't have been in this situation. Aether had 3-5k logins at Dawntrail with cross data center disabled. Their servers would've been massacred if it was triple by travel. They need to shut off people grouping up and have them spread out for hardware stability and overall content health.

[Silaryn]

They literally talked about shutting off cross data center on stream as one of the solutions if things came down to it because at the end of the day, breaking up statics and venues is better having 75% of your region with no access to current raid tier PF content. If people actually handled the responsibility of data center travel properly and just visited other worlds instead of staying there all day and doing everything from there content wise, we wouldn't have been in this situation. Aether had 3-5k logins at Dawntrail with cross data center disabled. Their servers would've been massacred if it was triple by travel. They need to shut off people grouping up and have them spread out for hardware stability and overall content health.

This is an insane take. Imagine thinking that splitting up friend groups is a good thing.

[RezPls]

This is an insane take. Imagine thinking that splitting up friend groups is a good thing.

Something tells me they don't have many friends ig or irl.

[VoidsentStatus]

This is an insane take. Imagine thinking that splitting up friend groups is a good thing.

This is the real world. I'm sorry you don't like the idea of changes being implemented that have downsides. At the end of the day, the game existed for what? 7 years without data center travel. Majority of people aren't unsubbing even if they did take it out completely. Data center travel is a privelege, not a right.

[kajv95]

This is the real world. I'm sorry you don't like the idea of changes being implemented that have downsides. At the end of the day, the game existed for what? 7 years without data center travel. Majority of people aren't unsubbing even if they did take it out completely. Data center travel is a privelege, not a right.

Yeah, and when I first started playing, EU had only one datacenter. I had friends on Zodiark who just got moved away from Chaos. We were in different FCs and neither of us were going to abandon other friends just to hang out. DC Travel was the bandaid we needed to play together again.

Kindly piss off with your "travel is a privilege, not a right". It's been a part of the game for many people who, quite literally, don't know any different.

[VoidsentStatus]

DC Travel was the bandaid we needed to play together again.
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And you conveniently left out what you did until in the meantime. (according to google) Light was added on April 2, 2019 compared to July 2022 when Data Center Travel was released. What did you do during that 3 year time period?

[kajv95]

And you conveniently left out what you did until in the meantime. (according to google) Light was added on April 2, 2019 compared to July 2022 when Data Center Travel was released. What did you do during that 3 year time period?

Continue chatting with them on discord while hoping we'd be able to play again. And we were allowed to again in 2022 just like you said.
What's more, I eventually found out some people I know from outside Final Fantasy also played, and played on Light. So that unlocked too! Between old friends on Light, Chaos, some new friends we picked up on Light along the way thanks to DC travel, we were able to make a static that perfectly suits us. A static that I wasn't allowed to play with today because they shadowdropped new restrictions instead of "removing the restrictions" like they stated.
Heck, when they added being able to go to OCE, I was stoked because now I was even allowed to play with my pals in the american region without resorting to my Halicarnassus alt!
Now I can barely even play with them with either OCE OR Halicarnassus alt! Amazing.

Anyway, what's your point? Why does it matter "what I did during that 3 year period". What matters is what I, and so many other players, did with a feature that's been a part of the game for 2 years now. It's far, FAR too late to be walking this back in an attempt to not have to work on a solution to a perceived problem with the system.

[Eisweyr]

This is the real world. I'm sorry you don't like the idea of changes being implemented that have downsides. At the end of the day, the game existed for what? 7 years without data center travel. Majority of people aren't unsubbing even if they did take it out completely. Data center travel is a privelege, not a right.

As if they didnt force you to make friends on one server and data center (because pf) and then split your server location (aka known as the Crystal Split.)
So you make friends and then they split you.
A Right? Please.
If you allow something in your game then its your OBLIGATION to make it work, if youre getting paid a subscription especially.
If you cannot make it work then close the feature.

[kinslayer-]

This is an insane take. Imagine thinking that splitting up friend groups is a good thing.

Dont bother with him, i'm sure he's the Dynamis bozja bot farmer, he literally gets mad when some people travel to Dynamis to farm in there.