[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[poooman]

idgaf about whatever arguments happening but i DO want to point out that since balmung had been closed for so long, it had one of the lower home world populations on crystal. it was constantly closed because everyone crowded on ul'dah and during the time no one could go there, it would have been very obvious that the population was lower

[Vinter]

idgaf about whatever arguments happening but i DO want to point out that since balmung had been closed for so long, it had one of the lower home world populations on crystal. it was constantly closed because everyone crowded on ul'dah and during the time no one could go there, it would have been very obvious that the population was lower

All of Balmung's problems can be solved by not allowing people from Mateus and Zalera to world travel there. People claim we're the degens, but go to QS and it's all <<Traveler>> as far as the eye can see.

[VoidsentStatus]

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Not more dead necessarily, just that noone has interest in that said content. Castrum and Delubrum are tied to relic weapon and Bozja progression in general, Delubrum savage is relic weapon and mount. There are people that run them regularly, but it's a small dedicated community especially since we're 2 expansions past. I could go into Bozja and find 20-40 ppl out of 70 cap in the instance, but as a general rule under 15-20% of them are going to be interested in that specific content, most are just in bozja for xp farming. Most of the times it's sprouts trying to run said content because anyone hardcore/dedicated is doing organized runs via the discords and not inside all day. So you end up with a lot of failed runs because 90% of sprouts don't realize you can't half-attempt that content with 5-8 people without having rez's, without having proper loadouts, without knowing the mechanics (and part of the reason they're lazy on making a proper bozja loadout is because of being spoiled in open world xp farming for bozja from sheer volume of players in fates/veterans farming xp but don't want to spend 30min inside of content they don't need). Someone in the thread earlier mentioned that they were on Primal and couldn't get enough people for TEA Ultimate at their prog point and had to go to Aether. For ranked PvP, when we looked at NA/EU stats, out of the top 100 leaderboard, 25-35% of them are alt characters. There's not a large diamond/crystal playerbase, and that actually manifested in JP data centers having special matchmaking for crystal only ranked matches ever since like Season 4/5 (we just finished 11) because they have the population to make crystal only matches as well as crystal/diamond still going. They have 3-4 diamond/crystal+ matches at the same time, we barely get 1-2 and rely on streamers getting people to even queue up.


Some pieces of content are too niche that they're not viable to just RNG queue/attempt for at any time. Some regions or some data centers are just more interested in a given piece of content more than another is. You have to locate based on what you find the most important because there's always something dead if you look deep enough into various aspects of the game. Wolve's Den is another example. Most of them are going to be dead other than the 1-2 Wolve's Den on Primal (i believe it's Leviathan, maybe 1 toher world) that is a PvP "quicksands type of gathering" and Balmung's Wolves Den. If you're a person that likes to duel on Aether, that's where you'll spend all your time instead of on your home data center.

Also, 2 questions:
1) why did you switch for a small house? Most people I know switched for large houses or a dream/good medium.
2) what fell through plan wise with the small for you not to use it?

[VoidsentStatus]

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Ahhh, ok. And I would definitely just host a PF asking the question on Primal/Crystal during prime hours and you'll get enough feedback on roulette hours. Economy wise, https://universalis.app/ is useful for directly comparing the worlds in case travel is restricted and no broker mains are online to summarize.

[CuteBucket]

I am once again asking that we rollback this stupid "congestion" system and let people freely data center travel again.

I still can't run much content on my Dynamis character without transferring her off world first to do it. Dynamis PF is as dead as ever. These changes are not helping Dynamis thrive. I don't WANT to have to haul my character to a different DC just to do Alliance Raids or PvP, during prime time evening US hours no less. I like her staying on Maduin with her FC unless I'm choosing to meet up and run things with others somewhere else or going to venues or just exploring housing. As a housing enthusiast, it really sucks that my housing character may not be able to even go to the server a house I wanted to look at is now.

Meanwhile on my other character, my non Aether friends can't come visit our large FC house on Cactuar anymore because Aether is almost always locked. We all used to come hang out there every week. I maintained and decorated the house not just for the FC, but for all of our friends we met across the game. We worked together to design a lot of the features. And now they can't even come hang out anymore.

I was completely fine with the temporary locks they put in place for the launch of Dawntrail. I think that was a smart idea that eased a lot of congestion. But why do we have this "not quite open not quite closed" system now? Especially in the lull between patches, player organized content like RP events, venues, and simply getting together with friends to do casual things like treasure maps or visiting each other's houses is where the game shines and why it stays alive. These changes do nothing but hurt that. Please let us freely data center travel again.

[xanatosdc]

Agreed. All of the above. They need to roll back the dumpster fire they created. But as usual, SE isn't listening to player feedback.

Just waiting for people to come in and tell you that you should move your FC off Aether of your want people to visit, because clearly, that's a reasonable thing to do.

[CuteBucket]

Another reminder that I sure would love DC travel to open back up! The launch congestion is gone, there's really no need for this anymore. Am I really going to have to wait until 7.1 sometime in November to see any changes? Any word at all on why they did this and seriously hurt cross DC raiders and the RP community during a time in the lifecycle of the game where doing Savage raids or going to player run events are the only things to do besides daily roulettes?

[PassinLay]

Reposting what I said in the other thread :

The fact this is gaining 0 traction anymore just shows as per usual how weak minded this community is, always looking down and tolerating anything this company does.

They broke statics, they broke friendships, they basically closed down venues on Aether because people cant go there anymore and smaller venues are basically dead, but no one cares, people just take it and dont complain.

Dont expect those restrictions to go away anytime soon if ever, they are going for the long run with this whole "wow the game is so packed guys we need to close that dc so the servers dont overload !!!"

While in reality, when you dig a little, we are already back to pre-DT levels population wise, and weirdly enough everything was fine back then...

https://steamcharts.com/app/39210

For those that dont want to click the link

For steam users only, May 2024 had ~~22k players, march had ~~20k
DT brought in 42k players total, an increase of ~~20k
As of today, we are back to ~~22k.

And yes, before people tell me "it's only steam", it's called statistics, you dont need the entire game population to make statistics. Steam is a good sample.

Hopefully SE will stop pretending that the game is booming soon, the people that joined for DT have pretty much already left and we are back to the numbers right before DT, stop pretending SE, and open the DC's again, stop with this congestion nonsense, servers arent congested and nor are DC's congested. Balmung out of ANY WORLD which was 24 7 congested before this patch (how weird !) is now open for transfers, and barely has any congestion at all or needs barely any time to reach, stop the hypocrisy.

Thanks.

[millktea]

Nearly October and it's still difficult to DC travel? There's no way servers are so congested at 10 to 3 AM that I can't travel or go to the world I want. This is just removing DC travel. DT is dead
Don't add a feature and then basically take it away but make it appear it's there

Just make a universal PF. Do better.

[millktea]

This. People seriously need to complain and stop being complacent over dumb decisive that block features of the game. We pay a sub. Game isn't free