How about you merge datacenter PFs instead of making it more annoying

[Jojoya]

Apparently, something is in the works, but we've seen nothing of this, and I cannot give actual proof of this.

It's less "something is in the works" and more "we're trying to figure out how to remove programming hurdles that would prevent it from working as players want". At one point, YoshiP had even commented in a Live Letter about wishing for a miracle programmer to appear that could figure out a solution for them.

I hope they've at least contacted the WoW technical team to see how their Group Finder and LFR matching work. WoW's method probably wouldn't work for FFXIV but it might offer some inspiration for a solution.

[Asari5]

I hope they've at least contacted the WoW technical team to see how their Group Finder and LFR matching work. WoW's method probably wouldn't work for FFXIV but it might offer some inspiration for a solution.

knowledge from outside their island? that seems a bit unreasonable xD

[Mawlzy]

I hope they've at least contacted the WoW technical team to see how their Group Finder and LFR matching work. WoW's method probably wouldn't work for FFXIV but it might offer some inspiration for a solution.

Oh I hope they have too! That would be epic!

"Hello, Blizzard Activision? Yeah hi, one of our IPs is the main competitor to one of yours, and we're buggered if we can reproduce a popular feature that you've figured out. Could you help?"

"..."

On a good day maybe they'd bundle housing into the fix.

[Kandraxx]

Much easier for them to just wait it out until the last player who was in for the 'gameplay' is out. Not many left and the ones that are still there are mostly plugin cheaters so unwanted and troublesome customers anyway.

Then they can fully concentrate on milking the virtual house party and Barbie doll people who whale all store emotes and glams the day they are released.