[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

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Frontlines.

I have not been having the greatest time with it lately, even with matches that I win.

Ok, that makes sense. I thought you were talking about even getting queue's to pop and not the quality of players. Quality being low is a side effect of Dynamis not being able to develop it's own pvp population for so long so it's a bunch of new people primarily. Ranked CC saw the side effects of it from Season 5 and onward where new players essentially got crushed by smurfs from other data centers so it's been a running joke how Dynamis is the hardest DC to rank up on just because the level of carry for the lower ranks is drastically higher than other DC's. You go from having to win with the newest pvp players on NA, to finally reaching plat, and every match you're in is Crystal-Top 30's from other data centers filling out the entire team. PvP discords would've helped alleviate the sprout population a bit but Revival essentially abandoned Dynamis early on even for Ranked CC to the point several Dynamis only discords had to be made, only being able to sync queue's for Ranked pretty much on the weekends only for the majority of the season (casual queue was dead 24/7 unless a pvp discord hosted an event for fun to help sprouts practice) and the bigger maps such as frontlines were queue sync only for like one day a week if that. Regular PvP tournaments and practice scrims hosted by A/P/C all happened to be scheduled on the weekend which also trashed how often Dynamis pvp events happened in general. Anyone that didn't hop over to A/P/C has very little pvp experience and the pvp resources to help new players even inside of the discords are very, to be blunt, kindergarden/elementary level basic stuff as well as guides on youtube. You'd need someone that has been playing on the main data centers or someone who got mentor'd individually to have a good pvp player on dynamis.

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and would rather just pay to leave even if it means giving up my house.

Yep. That's what happened to a few good people I knew in CC even. They wanted to stay on Dynamis because they had their dream house even but because they ended up having to sit on Crystal 24/7 because they couldn't do the smallest possible scale casual or ranked pvp queue consistently, they had to wait for 6+ months for Balmung to open up and then left. We had some good players on Dynamis, but they left during Endwalker. Got their Top 30/Rank 1 and then dipped out. Likely another reason they didn't want to wait another 3 years before doing something about Aether draining the other 3 data centers because it has a lot of hidden consequences that people don't think about or feel unless they're in those communities.

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The only thing really stopping me is that, as far as I know, you can't pay-transfer to some place that's congested, or how its a toss up if I go to Aether (for obvious reasons) or Primal, because it's the only data center I've seen that consistently does Rival Wings even outside of mogtome events, or how when I've DC hopped for deals on the Market Board, 80% of the time the best price/quantity was a world on Primal, which I've been told is because it's "the" hub for gathering/crafting and thus there's far less price-gouging compared to the other DCs (*especially* Dynamis).

Crystal is the only one I don't have any specific motive for, given it's supposedly all about RP/venues and I don't do that kind of content in the slightest.

Correct, you can't go to Aether at all due to Congestion. You have 4 worlds on Crystal and 4 worlds on Primal to choose from that are classified as Standard and not Congested. https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/