Playtime compensation for unplayability of FFXIV due to travel restrictions.

[SophiaDL]

I lowkey feel like if I was a dev, I would be petty for at least 3-4 days and let people crash the server on purpose so they can't play before locking off the worlds. And if they complained, open it up, and let them crash again. Just to see how many times it takes before it starts to sink in there isn't a choice xD

my guy out here actually pretending like SE is a small indie company that cant upgrade their servers

you actually have to be trolling

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

my guy out here actually pretending like SE is a small indie company that cant upgrade their servers

you actually have to be trolling

They did. This was the smoothest expansion launch we've ever had.

Also, DC travel is the only thing keeping people from just flooding aether with char creation. People screamed to high heaven when they locked Balmung and mateus.

Really, aether should be perma locked so people are forced to travel elsewhere.

[SophiaDL]

They did. This was the smoothest expansion launch we've ever had.

Also.

you and I have a very different definition of smooth, but that's okay

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

you and I have a very different definition of smooth, but that's okay

Not having 6k queues because of increased server capacity is pretty damn smooth.

People like to use steam charts right? The peak at 6.0s launch was only slightly higher than the peak of 7.0s launch, and 6.0 launched mid pandemic.


So the fact we had a much smoother login process with much, much shorter queues shows just how much the servers were upgraded.


Also, weren't you on materia complaining it was a dead DC? Why go to another dead DC instead of primal, crystal, or the few open servers on aether?

Housing probably.

[VoidsentStatus]

They did.

People forget back in Endwalker Yoshi P wrote an essay saying they upgraded everything they could and put everything at max. They couldn't do anything else at the time xD

[LianaThorne]

You didn't even use the system and you're chiding others for complaining? Lol?

Literally every cross-DC static has bumped into that problem for the past three weeks.

Sup Titanman, I know looking back on previous pages can be hard so I'll link you my original post where I did test the system during the day using a Dynamis character to Aether. The issue seems to be that I didn't do it at night so I'll attempt a travel in the near future at night and amend my statement if I run into actually obnoxious queue times.

I'm kind of confused on what this thread is:

- I made a random character on Golem, Dynamis and attempted to DC travel them to Aether which went through, just with a bit of a longer queue (3:28s). So that seems to be working as intended minus the slightly longer queue (which makes sense since they'll prioritize natives to the DC over travelers now, which is a good thing so the people that actually pay to play on that server/DC can be on it)

- I also attempted to DC transfer another character of mine on Marilith, Dynamis to the Primal DC and was prompted with the payment screen. So that also seems to be working as intended. This character is older than 3 months though so it wouldn't have the requirement to stay on the DC.


So...what exactly do you want compensation for? Longer queue times? The forced 3 month wait that's mandatory for anyone who transfers to/makes a character on a DC classified as "new"? As far as I can see, if you hit that 3 month mark you can dip out of there or just DC travel to another server and hang out there until your timer runs out (like most people who moved to Dyna just for housing lol).

[angienessyo]

Balmung,gilgamesh and one or two other worlds. Got so congested and packed, it started effecting the entire Aether DC. Even the non congested worlds were feeling the effects.

Also for anyone that wasn't around back then, Balmung was moved to Crystal when that datacenter opened for this reason. We were definitely having unusual server issues before DT launched because of all the traffic coming here to Aether.

[SophiaDL]

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[3:01]This World is experiencing congestion. Characters from other Worlds cannot visit at this time.
[3:01]This World is experiencing congestion. Characters from other Worlds cannot visit at this time.
[3:01]This World is experiencing congestion. Characters from other Worlds cannot visit at this time.
[3:01]This World is experiencing congestion. Characters from other Worlds cannot visit at this time.
[3:01]This World is experiencing congestion. Characters from other Worlds cannot visit at this time.
[3:01]This World is experiencing congestion. Characters from other Worlds cannot visit at this time.
[3:01]This World is experiencing congestion. Characters from other Worlds cannot visit at this time.
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[1313]

I actually travelled to primal in the afternoon today, around 2:30 est. I was amazed to have a normal travel time to get there, all servers were open. I was actually excited, looking forward to having normal queue times and probably faster runs on average too. Boy, was I wrong. The queues for every roulette on primal were 2-3x longer than queues on Dynamis. This tells me that the most likely reason is that everybody has been sneaking over to Aether in the wee hours of the night, and parking their character there indefinitely as they circumvent the idle kicker with their 3rd party software. My alts on Aether were able to get into every roulette in less than 5 minutes each as a solo dps. My time on primal was only for one roulette, since trials was the only one that would pop in a reasonable amount of time. Prior to the false congestion implementation the queues on Dynamis we actually decent, for a time. At the end of the day, none of that matters though. I'm still here unable to play with my friends, on our server in Aether 4 months later (and counting). Sure, I could get 1-3 ppl to come visit from time to time, on some random dead ass server , and do a couple roulettes before they go back home to tend to whatever needs tending to... but that doesn't help or fix the fact that what squenix has done has just put me out of raiding for the whole tier, screwed up major fc plans, etc. I'm not the only person who went through this kind of crap but I'm one of the few remaining. DT has been the biggest flop of life in a lot of ways we couldn't even predict, despite having successfully predicted that DT was going to be filled with blunders. I can't wrap my head around why they wouldn't allow people the chance to transfer where they actually want to play, but rather they elect to toss active subscriptions into the trash can and set it on fire. Surely there's sound logic in there somewhere, but I'm clearly oblivious to it.

[VoidsentStatus]

I actually travelled to primal in the afternoon today, around 2:30 est. I was amazed to have a normal travel time to get there, all servers were open. I was actually excited, looking forward to having normal queue times and probably faster runs on average too. Boy, was I wrong. The queues for every roulette on primal were 2-3x longer than queues on Dynamis. .

One of my friends is from Malboro and was leveling bard and they had the same thing. They came to Dynamis to see if it was faster and it was. It's like Dynamis has enough people for queue's to pop, but not enough people for there to be a long line, or people on Crystal and Primal are just the same role more often than Dynamis.