Re-merge Chaos and Light please

[NightHour]

A unified PF would be good, specifically for the savage/ high end stuff at the very least.
Only really noticed I was having to move to light to PF anything around abyssos tier and onward.

It would be good for the low end stuff too.

More groups for things like Unreal, Mount farming etc.

[Misutoraru]

This, Chaos used to be full of party for various duties. We used to see savage, ex, unreal, deep dungeon, hunt, fate train…etc

Now barely anything, to join other DC meaning I lose access to many basic functions.

Either SE introduces cross dc DF and PF or merge the two DC back. We still have many low population server and really can’t see the reason to keep the split now

[Miohazuki]

Do you mean...

Locking players on to their own data centre for the first patch of a Savage and Ultimate release?

or

Making it so only 1 specific DC can access Savage like Crystalline Conflict ranked?


Both bad ideas but idea 2 is even worse.




Better idea right here -

REGION WIDE PARTY FINDER


All they need to do is make 1 unified PF for every region.

It would probably require some tech to make it so Chaos players can join Light PF's from their home DC and vice versa.

That way, Chaos players can still raid with Light players without losing access to things like Retainers, Free Companies etc and vice versa.

Nor do they have to travel every single time they have a raid.



They should just unify each regions PF into 1 big PF for that region.


No more "Light PF" "Aether PF" etc... we make it "EU PF" "NA PF" "JP PF" "OCE PF"

That is even more stupid .playing with high ping people .what could go wrong

[PotatoePet]

That is even more stupid .playing with high ping people .what could go wrong

AFAIK all DCs in all regions are located at the same location. There is no such thing as NA-East / NA-West.

EDIT: Just to be clear:
EU (Light & Chaos) are hosted in Frankfurt, Germany
NA (Aether, Crystal, Dynamis & Primal) are hosted in Sacramento, CA, United States
JP (Elemental, Gaia, Mana & Meteor) are hosted in Tokyo, Japan
OC (Materia) is hosted in Sydney, Australia

[Absurdity]

Weren't they planning a third EU DC at some point?

I really hope we get regional PF and queuing in the game. The ping pong for Raiding and PvP currently is kinda pain.

They were probably planning one during the huge player boom at the start of Endwalker, and then quickly scrapped that idea when they saw the drop off and their new additions, Dynamis and Materia, struggle to get enough players to do anything.

This, Chaos used to be full of party for various duties. We used to see savage, ex, unreal, deep dungeon, hunt, fate train…etc

Now barely anything, to join other DC meaning I lose access to many basic functions.

Either SE introduces cross dc DF and PF or merge the two DC back. We still have many low population server and really can’t see the reason to keep the split now

Chaos used to be THE raiding DC for most of Shadowbringers. Light still had a raiding scene but it wasn't exactly packed and Chaos was seemingly more successful.
And then at some point during Endwalker that completely flipped.

[NightHour]

That is even more stupid .playing with high ping people .what could go wrong

All datacenters are hosted in the same place in their specific region so if you have high ping on Chaos, it's gonna be no different on Light.

They were probably planning one during the huge player boom at the start of Endwalker, and then quickly scrapped that idea when they saw the drop off and their new additions, Dynamis and Materia, struggle to get enough players to do anything.


Chaos used to be THE raiding DC for most of Shadowbringers. Light still had a raiding scene but it wasn't exactly packed and Chaos was seemingly more successful.
And then at some point during Endwalker that completely flipped.

Data Center Travel allowing Chaos players to come raid with their light friends without having to pay for a transfer. That plus LPDU.

Weren't they planning a third EU DC at some point?

I really hope we get regional PF and queuing in the game. The ping pong for Raiding and PvP currently is kinda pain.

They did plan to have a 8:8:8 configuration for DC's but I guess they needed the money to fund their flops instead.

And tbh, we don't really need a 3rd DC right now.

[MayuAmakura]

Weren't they planning a third EU DC at some point?

I really hope we get regional PF and queuing in the game. The ping pong for Raiding and PvP currently is kinda pain.

That was a test thing and died as they saw that not enough players are there for that to happen. That also includes Chaos which is dying and desolated.

[MayuAmakura]

I think devs could do something to fix this but then DC / server transfers may not sell well for them.

[Pip_Chick]

I waited 6 hours to do the Ivalice questline. For each raid....
I SUPPORT THIS.

[RedLolly]

I think the only thing holding them back from server merging is housing. That's a logistical nightmare that didn't exist when the servers were merged between 1.0 and ARR.