Greenlight NA and EU Travel

[Jeeqbit]

People from NA and EU play in opposite regions frequently. You would still definitely have increased traffic to both of the main raiding DCs in each Region. Until they create a cross-DC party finder, allowing NA and EU to travel would just create more problems unless you have a static and can go to another DC to raid. Or they would have to restrict some DCs from cross-region travel

Yes, there would be significant traffic... both ways. But not of the scale of "everyone going to Aether and deserting EU", nor "everyone going to Light and deserting NA". That's not going to happen.

[CarlCarl]

Bump. I would still rather much like full cross region DC Travel. Please implement it YoshiP. Thank you.

[Hyperia]

I will bet 1,000,000 Gil that the devs are not allowing this because everybody will DC travel to one place and leave all of the other DCs abandoned.

What they really need to do is switch to The World model where everybody is on the same server and zones spin up instances to balance the load. This would immediately make every zone feel alive and active. The cities would be bustling and it would be great. They have proven it works with the field operation zones such as Eureka and if they switch to a fully cloud DC as they tested, that could make this happen.

[Larirawiel]

I will bet 1,000,000 Gil that the devs are not allowing this because everybody will DC travel to one place and leave all of the other DCs abandoned.

I don't think so. Because everybody can travel to Materia. So the possibility to travel to one place and abandon all other DCs is already here.



Cheers

[Underscore]

How would people feel about restricting cross-region travellers from entering high-end content?

It should prevent the consolidation of Party Finder, while still allowing you to go meet your friends and do casual stuff. The difference in ping can act as a deterrent, but would it be enough?

[Infindox]

I will bet 1,000,000 Gil that the devs are not allowing this because everybody will DC travel to one place and leave all of the other DCs abandoned.

Nah they are trying to keep Japanese servers safe from the others going over there.

[Nyastra]

Uhhhh, I don't have any desire to play with NA thank you very much.
On top of that, latency is a thing.

[TBerry]

Uhhhh, I don't have any desire to play with NA thank you very much.
On top of that, latency is a thing.

Agreed.
Like 90% of petty stupid drama that happens in the game that is talked and complained about is on NA, clearly others DON'T want that.

[YumieYumiki]

I dunno, I'd really like to visit Balmung out of morbid curiosity

[WillIrishclover]

B-but culture differences!!

EU and NA barely has any culture differences, and a lot of EU players have an NA alt (and good amount of NA characters i know have an EU alt) it is not a JP/NA situation where there are actual real deep cultural and language barriers, I live in Europe, I main in NA, I play on EU...very little difference, and the cloud date centre test they did demolished the idea of culture differences as well

Anyone posting and panicking about "but NA drama!!" get off twitter, the average playerbase experience is the exact same as your average EU playerbase experience

no reason not to do it.