Player-matching algorithms for the Duty Finder have been adjusted.

[Sove92]

Please tell me this has nothing to do with what I'm worrying about... that they are removing lvl sync just like what they are doing on CN servers ;-;

If it was, it would say so in the patch notes. This simply affects matchmaking based on the features we already have for it. The Chinese servers are hosted by Shanda and they made the call to remove the lvl sync, it wasn't SE's call.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm

[AyaneSL]

If it was, it would say so in the patch notes. This simply affects matchmaking based on the features we already have for it. The Chinese servers are hosted by Shanda and they made the call to remove the lvl sync, it wasn't SE's call.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm

Yeah you're right... I really hope so, maybe I was just worrying too much. The official account of FFXIV Shanda ver. on Chinese social network posts their interactions with Yoshida regularly and even a recent visit to JP headquarter, giving me an impression that what they do are all permitted by SE. And many Chinese players see this as an experiment on their server before SE actually decide to apply it for all the servers.

[Rhas]

If it was, it would say so in the patch notes. This simply affects matchmaking based on the features we already have for it. The Chinese servers are hosted by Shanda and they made the call to remove the lvl sync, it wasn't SE's call.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm

They are doing that also because they have to pay by the hour(?) minute(?) to connect to the internet over there. Would you want to pay to wait in a Q for 45 minutes? I didn't think so.