The state of OCE without cross region travel (feedback)

[Tigerlilley]

Just wanting to give some feedback regarding the new datacentre and it's low population.

Currently, we are seeing massive queue times for things like Alliance roulette, story trials and more with this situation being especially dire for day time players outside of Australian prime time. Many of us have had to beg in Ravana's Limsa shout chat for people to please help us clear story instances. The Zodiark trial in particular has been a massive bottleneck as most players are alts getting their free 15 days and are still in the early expansions of the game.

PF for pug end game raiders is, predictably, not in a great state. We are seeing many people who have moved their mains across start to talk about how they are hoping to move back to their "home" servers in either JP or NA with their established raid scenes once the 90 day cool down on transfers is over.

The lure of better ping is not outweighing a dead raid scene.

Many of us were really hoping that the live letter today would at least mention OCE and put a little enthusiasm into encouraging people to join up there. At the moment the general sentiment is that the OCE servers were fan service to the Japanese to rid them of their gaijin issue, rather than provide a place for Oceanic raiders.

Cross region for OCE is the obvious fix and its disheartening to see OCE will remain isolated from the bigger communities.

[Shibi]

I am enjoying it, a lot. Lots of healing to do, lots of gil to make. My opinion on cross-DC travel has also changed completely to - not yet.

Not having cross data centre lets the servers form a community, we are doing well, and we need this to keep going. Yes, I can see it would be harder for people trying to do end game, sure, but with so many sprouts around, there is enough to do while they (and I) all catch up.

Census shows 2000 people at Endwalker out of 30,000 odd people on Sophia at least... a bunch were tourists getting their 15 days free, but there are still a lot who will get to the end eventually. Just look at all the sprout icons everywhere.

90 Days will also be up soon, and some people finding endgame harder, will be able to transfer back until the frontier servers settle (should take a year or two).

In the mean time, run as many leveling dungeons as you can on tanks and healers, and help all those thousands of people level.

[LaylaTsarra]

Seems to me they should allow cross data travel with the EU servers. Kind of unfair to lock out an entire data center from that experience.

[Tigerlilley]

Seems to me they should allow cross data travel with the EU servers. Kind of unfair to lock out an entire data center from that experience.

NA would make more sense from a ping perspective. Europe is a hell of a long way away.

[Hasrat]

There's kinda nothing really to address, tbh. We've pretty much seen all of this already, primarily with new EU worlds and splitting DCs. It's just a thing that takes time to settle in. There's nothing else to do for it but ride it out.

[LaylaTsarra]

NA would make more sense from a ping perspective. Europe is a hell of a long way away.

Not really the EU centers are just two with Light and Chaos with I believe 5 servers per DC. This would add a third and would help those centers as well. NA and Japan are already more than well populated and I don't think this new server should have that access. And relative to ping Japan would be a lot closer.

Personally I would like to see cross regions travel allowed as well at some point.

[Tigerlilley]

Not really

Yes, really. My ping to NA is 146ms, JP a little less. To Light, its over 300.

[LaylaTsarra]

Yes, really. My ping to NA is 146ms, JP a little less. To Light, its over 300.

I play on all regional centers and I live in NA East Coast and the game plays just fine for me.

[Tigerlilley]

I play on all regional centers and I live in NA East Coast and the game plays just fine for me.

Great!
Unsure how that's relevant to OCE players.

[LaylaTsarra]

Great!
Unsure how that's relevant to OCE players.

I play on OCE too on Sophia so I have a good feel for what is going on