Cross Data centre PF for Light and Chaos

[Azuruki]

As many Chaos players are aware, The Chaos PF is very much abandoned in the favour of going to Light where a community discord has single handedly ruined the Raid sence on the Chaos Data centre. As a suggestion to help revitalise Chaos PF I'd light to suggest the addition of making the Party finder work across the two Data centres.

What do you guys think?

[LibitIncarne]

small indie company please understand

also this will kill chaos PF even more

[Gurgeh]

It's not just your PF it's killing.
Next time you try and queue something specific from ShB onward and your getting a long queue (12mins actual), hop over 'immediately to light. Reque it there, let 12 mins go by.
Can't queue PvP off peak? Head to Light.
Tired of getting labyrinth and heavsward dungeons in your rouls?
Spend a week queuing then on light.
Deserted later zones, try some other servers on Chaos.... Then immediately take a peak at some servers on light.
It's not just PF.
Consider what content people have unlocked on your DC?
Consider when they are doing just their specific content for MSQ progression Vs general rouls?
Now consider which DC has the people at end game, all content unlocked, queuing rouls and not specific instances for MSQ?
Now consider that yes while end game means raiding, people raiding on Chaos also will not be in rouls so that makes no difference.

Your Chaos raiders are making friends on Light and running the odd roul while they hang about. Their light friends are not heading to Chaos to que a casual roul while they chew the cud with their static. Afterall 60% of their static is light.

[Jeeqbit]

They are aware of the issue, and of the suggestion for cross-DC PF. But they said it would take quite a long time and that they would try other solutions until then. Typically it takes them an entire expansion cycle to add things like this:
- Cross-World PF was at the end of Heavensward.
- World Visit was at the end of Stormblood.
- DC Travel was supposed to be at the end of Shadowbringers, but was delayed until a bit after Endwalker due to unexpected congestion.
- Cross-Region DC Travel was at the end of Endwalker.

So you can see that with a trend like this, it will probably be at the end of Dawntrail, depending on if they manage it by then.

It's also an issue with everyone going to Aether in NA, and everyone going to Mana in JP.

[Gurgeh]

They are aware of the issue, and of the suggestion for cross-DC PF. But they said it would take quite a long time and that they would try other solutions until then. Typically it takes them an entire expansion cycle to add things like this:

What's a cycle? DC travel came out in 6.18 apparently. That was July 22.
That started happening very quicky after that. The trend was clear.

[Kaurhz]

Cross-DC PF needs to be universal for each region.

[Jeeqbit]

What's a cycle?

Used to be 2 years, now about 2 and a half years.

DC travel came out in 6.18 apparently. That was July 22.

I explained the reason for that.

[BigCheez]

small indie company please understand

also this will kill chaos PF even more

Chaos and Light PF wouldn't exist. You would just have EU PF if they were merged.

[BristolRuss]

Yep, all for this. Would make content more accessible for all EU players.

[RenegadeInferno]

also this will kill chaos PF even more

By combining the PFs for Light and Chaos, this will absolutely not "kill chaos PF".
If anything, it'll be a massive QoL addition to the game.

No longer would I need to travel to Light just to raid.

It always has been a self-fulfilling prophecy, "If you want to raid, go to Light", cool, now Chaos is dead.
If people just stayed put, it wouldn't be so much of an issue.

I don't see why I should have to go to another DC to do content, that should be lively on my own DC, but that's not the first time it's been said.