[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

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They have a point even if you hate them personally. Alot of people were using DC travel to pile up on one DC and even assigned raid DCs for each region, eventually leading to PF on other DCs to be lacking or dying and forcing people to either go to said DC, or simply not do content. I think something had to be done to discourage this behavior. I do think they might loosen it up on NA since I see alot of people from NA complaining about it but I doubt they'd outright remove it.

I think SE had to step in eventually which is unfortunate, but I'd rather blame those who forced this heavyhanded approach than SE at this point.

This shows we sorely need cross DF/PF to solve the situation where people pile on one DC for content. I made my character on Chaos, I like it here, but once DC travel dropped people decided that Light is where to go for content and eventually our PF died off. I stopped checking or bothering to check it. Alot of my friends became 'residents' of Light, so I'm either forced to leave my DC and deal with restrictions and lose access to my buffs, friends, retainers just to do some extremes.

The options were: to to another dc, stay on your dc, or don't do content. Then people attached a false label to aether and other data centers died off. if they hadnt congregated to one spot, everyone wouldve complained about how mid their expereinces had been. it mae perfect sense to do it. but now the options are:dont do the content. (for me). there's no valid option for me since my group is on another dc and we cant even meet up to hi five let alone raid.

This comes back to the players who need to do their part. They need to not attach false labels and spread misinformation. Aether was never the go to spot to do [content]. it was the go-to for ULTIMATES. everyone else should've stayed home, until the content drought (like they did), then gather in one spot (dc).

This is also largely due to certain things that spent up the endwalker budget, which left little for players to do at endgame considering there was no relic related content to keep people busy. So naturally, during a content drought with a shortage of endgame players, people would want to be in one spot. it's not dogpiling, it's adapting and overcoming hardships to be able to play the content they pay to play in a reasonably enjoyable atmosphere.

If they don't revert the restriction to be back to normal again with this hotfix, i'll bet dynamis become just as dead as it was when people were travelling to aether. the difference being, it'll be because they're unsubbed and offline instead of not being on their home world.

[Rueby]

The options were: to to another dc, stay on your dc, or don't do content. Then people attached a false label to aether and other data centers died off. if they hadnt congregated to one spot, everyone wouldve complained about how mid their expereinces had been. it mae perfect sense to do it. but now the options are:dont do the content. (for me). there's no valid option for me since my group is on another dc and we cant even meet up to hi five let alone raid.

This comes back to the players who need to do their part. They need to not attach false labels and spread misinformation. Aether was never the go to spot to do [content]. it was the go-to for ULTIMATES. everyone else should've stayed home, until the content drought (like they did), then gather in one spot (dc).

This is also largely due to certain things that spent up the endwalker budget, which left little for players to do at endgame considering there was no relic related content to keep people busy. So naturally, during a content drought with a shortage of endgame players, people would want to be in one spot. it's not dogpiling, it's adapting and overcoming hardships to be able to play the content they pay to play in a reasonably enjoyable atmosphere.

If they don't revert the restriction to be back to normal again with this hotfix, i'll bet dynamis become just as dead as it was when people were travelling to aether. the difference being, it'll be because they're unsubbed and offline instead of not being on their home world.

I'll speak for Chaos in this case since EU is way smaller than NA and the effect of the 'adapting and overcoming hardships' like you call it was noticable. As people leave from one place to another, those that stay behind are going to be forced to follow. From my personal experience of doing content on chaos during ShB and EW (Pre-DC travel) I was always able to find something to do, I go on Light and the PF entries are sometimes double or triple that of Chaos, as I result I either had to lose access to my retainers, contact with friends, FC, just to farm EX or dabble in high end content.

Like I said, cross DC PF/DF would be a great solution to both you and me. I hope if that is ever implemented that restrictions to DC travel would be lifted entirely.

I don't believe restrictions are great. They're a bandaid fix. I think we need some kind of mega DC and stop this whole segregation SE loves doing.