Greenlight NA and EU Travel

[Jeeqbit]

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.

Because NA is larger and holds the lion's share of the internet's native English speakers. I've seen plenty of drama on the EU side actually.

And all that is irrelevant. If an EU player wants to play with an NA friend, they should be able to and acting like it's going to somehow bring all NA players over to EU suddenly is exaggerating. It's extremely common that people from NA and EU are friends, especially due to knowing a common language and it being easier to find English speakers from NA than anywhere else. Currently to do that they both have to visit Materia giving them a high ping.

A likely scenario would be people from EU visiting NA for RP events then returning to raid. In reverse, EU players on NA worlds may visit EU worlds to raid, then return to NA to play with friends.

[CarlCarl]

Hey yknow if NA is suffering those DDoSes right now it would be pretty cool if we could DC travel to EU to avoid them in a place with better ping than OCE.
Haha, just kidding... unless?

[Jeeqbit]

I was thinking the same thing. If we could just go to EU and avoid the DDoS it would be better.

[Shistar]

+1! You guys are welcome here anytime.

[SalamanderIX]

I don't want it. I'd rather they revert DC travel altogether. It's caused more problems then had benefits.
It's going to be even worse with two regions with very different cultures.

Besides, you can just create an alt on these regions if you want to chat. The only reason people might need is raiding, and the last thing we need is Aether being filled with 250ping players with different raid plans. Nevermind that Aether is full enough with 4 datacenters raiding there. 6 would be way too much.

[Shistar]

The only reason people might need is raiding, and the last thing we need is Aether being filled with 250ping players with different raid plans.

Rest assured EU has no interest in raiding with your PF...

[WillIrishclover]

Rest assured EU has no interest in raiding with your PF...

I love this argument, EU folks would just come over to hang with friends , run dungeons shit like that, anyone seriously wanting to endgame would just go to their regional dc..

[CarlCarl]

I love this argument, EU folks would just come over to hang with friends , run dungeons shit like that, anyone seriously wanting to endgame would just go to their regional dc..

And the opposite as well, players who have their characters in a different region to play with friends there despite higher ping would be able to travel to the low ping region and raid there instead. (Which also helps with timezone allignment.)

[Shistar]

I love this argument, EU folks would just come over to hang with friends , run dungeons shit like that, anyone seriously wanting to endgame would just go to their regional dc..

Exactly. It will be mainly used to buy stuff from cheaper MBs, hang out, visit each other's houses, do casual content where +250ms ping is not the end of the world and RP. Most people are immediately crippled by a 100ms increase to their ping, nevermind 250ms going by the other user's example.

If a 150ms ping increase wasn't a problem, you'd see people going to raid to Materia with mixed region statics. It's not rocket science to think no one in EU will bother to go to NA to raid with +250ms, unless it is actually beneficial to them to do so (NA people playing in EU DCs may go to NA DCs to actually have less ping, but it will never be the other way around). Also, people would be able to travel to regions with active DF based on their timezone, making it easier for nocturnal players to fill queues.

(No longer directed at quoted user)
If some of you have a personal issue with the neighboring region's players, seriously, it won't affect you as much as you think it will, and the xenophobia over who uses raidplans, who uses Hector, who uses macros and who is a PF terrorist is just silly. We likely won't raid with you and you likely won't raid with us.

The pros far outweigh the cons. I, for one, would love to get rid of my NA and JP alts gathering dust... seeing them in the lodestone character list drives me insane for some reason.

[WillIrishclover]

Also i hate this term "culture clash" EU/NA isn't that different, I play on both, what culture clash? outside of different raid strats they are very very similar, this is not a JP vs NA situation. I say this to both sides both communities are very very similar the finger pointing saying "NA BAD!" or "EU BAD!" is just ridiculous to me, i play on both...they're basically the same in many many respects.