The state of OCE without cross region travel (feedback)

[VelKallor]

It’s why World of Warcraft has had a dedicated Oceania datacenter for years,

They were started in 2014 after 10 years, and have been neglected ever since. Blizzard doesnt care for OCE and never will.

[Illmaeran]

But that would require “gaijin” to be queued with Japanese people. And obviously SE will not allow that.

Elemental DC has had English speakers on it from Day 1. Tonberry, the most populous server on the DC, is 65ish percent EN players since it started out as the unofficial AUS/NZ/OCE/SEA server. A couple others are in the 12-25% range, including mine, Atomos. It's also the place where Japanese players who want to interact with non-Japanese, to practice language skills or what have you, go. We've all played well together because the non-Japanese players recognize it's a Japanese DC and have followed their cultural norms since the DC opened. I can't speak to any of the other JP data centers, but Elemental's always been this way.

[UnrealTai]

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.

Not from there but I can't agree with this at all.
People don't have time to "try" to play the game, they just want to play it.
Community building, sure, but people don't have time for all that, not everyone at least. DC region travel needs to be a thing for you guys, 100%

[Shibi]

Not from there but I can't agree with this at all.

February Necro my man. It's now November.

[Ralphe2449]

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

Still much prefer this over having to play with terrible latency so that is not a belief i share.

And i was able to do all story/hildi/trial stuff without problem, it might have taken a bit longer than almost instant in JP but I really dont mind this if I get to have good latency, the game feels much much better, you can always do other stuff while waiting, only real problem has been the shadowbringers and endwalker raids taking very very long to pop and if they do you better hope someone aint afak >.>

Still, I am happy for oce servers, they are nowhere near dead as people claimed when I was looking to restart in Oce