Materia - Bismarck - Eastern La Noscea

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But don't worry, despite their inaction, SE has a recommended solution for you

Not really apples to apples when:


What you posted is regarding login queue times and people trying to world visit/dc travel to a congested world/data center that isn't their own. That wasn't a suggestion for when zones are unavailable inside of the game entirely AND ON YOUR HOME SERVER. Square Enix has historically always cared about people's home world experience and the new player experience that Yoshi P talked about on livestream several times which factored into why we don't have marketboards in various zones, why they don't incentivize running content on other data centers as a solution to not having cross-dc party finder, etc. That is also why they add new instances when they expect players will cause these zones to cap out.

Funny enough the main data centers never faced this problem before where a zone was locked off entirely day to day besides Balmung Ul'dah, which had a decade of roleplay history and lore for why it was congested specifically and ppl wouldn't just go somewhere else. In fact, Square Enix made the data center travel restrictions tighter just because NA chose to ignore them asking them to travel to lower population areas and tried to brute force their way onto a data center while using 3rd party software to do it. Recommending it for OCE people to do when your peers rejected it and caused problems until Square Enix forced their hand is hypocritical. Square Enix has also never dealt with a random player on twitter able to spontaneously spawn thousands of players wherever they ask to the level of Quicksands and keep it that way for weeks potentially months.