Limited Data Travel System

[TwistedTea]

As I previously mentioned in a Live Letter, while the system has been designed to allow cross-region travel, we'll be limiting it to travel between logical data centers within a physical data center at first due in part to differences in game economy and values. We’ll be paying keen attention to the opinions of players as we consider whether or not to introduce cross-region travel in the future.

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What do y'all think about this?

Feels like SE is protecting the JP server markets from being raided by the gaijins.

Or is this reading too much into it?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

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What do y'all think about this?

Feels like SE is protecting the JP server markets from being raided by the gaijins.

Or is this reading too much into it?

Reading too much into it. They probably aren't interconnected in a way that makes instant travel easy, like world hopping on the same data center or within datacenters. Fast links would need to be set up between the regions to transfer your character over.

[Theodric]

I'd be disappointed if the NA and EU servers were linked together but not the EU, NA and JP servers.

By connecting them all, any major culture clashes in terms of interaction with game mechanics (hunt trains, the economy, PvP, etc) can be readily identified. If the JP servers are conveniently shut off from the system, however, then any consequences that emerge are likely to go unaddressed.

[TwistedTea]

Reading too much into it. They probably aren't interconnected in a way that makes instant travel easy, like world hopping on the same data center or within datacenters. Fast links would need to be set up between the regions to transfer your character over.

I agree, there's some technical aspects in the background but it's interesting SE is using differences in game economy and values as a reason not to link the regions.

Previously, when World Visit was introduced, SE stated that the economies of the different servers within Data Centres would normalize over time. Yet for Cross Region Data Centre visit, they brought up game economy and values.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I agree, there's some technical aspects in the background but it's interesting SE is using differences in game economy and values as a reason not to link the regions.

Previously, when World Visit was introduced, SE stated that the economies of the different servers within Data Centres would normalize over time. Yet for Data Centre visit, they brought up game economy and values.

Originally Legacy players could only transfer to other legacy servers for the same reason (economy) and housing prices were obscene on legacy servers. I imagine they would want to turn it on for all, and having new DC's get flooded with gil immediately would be a bit of a mess.

[Mezzoforte]

Yoshi will 100% not let other regions onto the jp servers. They want their isolated group. They do not want to deal with filthy gaijin.

[Shougun]

I'm all for them being linked together seamlessly in the end, but such a system will take a lot of learning, practice, and if not done slowly/carefully a lot of pain lol.

It's easy to say there should be a smart system that lets people play with who they want in a beautifully dynamic world that can also handling some filtering (like the English speakers probably want to be with English speakers, the Japanese speakers with Japanese), it's actually extremely talented to pull that off well. Like I think WoW's phasing to have super dynamic zones is a SUPER cool idea (that FFXIV uses on a sort of similar but sometimes less 'big' scale), yet phasing has had some issues and particularly when it first came out.

Good luck

[Dionysius]

Yoshi will 100% not let other regions onto the jp servers. They want their isolated group. They do not want to deal with filthy gaijin.

E players already part of JP servers on Elemental for years and I heavily support that cross-region travel "should" happen.

[Auralii]

As someone who will soon have friends in JP, NA and OCE servers, I'm hoping they will allow us to travel to other datacenters worldwide. As for the economy, couldn't they disable the marketboards or trading for cross physical datacenter travel? I feel that the hesitation is more to do with culture differences between the JP and NA/EU players as opposed to the economy - but I hope that we'll eventually be able to party up and do content with friends worldwide.

[technole]

Limiting movement to the physical data center is a good idea at-first. While the technical aspects seem fine to send your toon down though the ocean fiber, the economy and unintended issues they haven't flushed out are good reasons to wait it out.