Can we have a cross-region DC travel sooner if it is a charged service?

[MatrixTXT]

Hi, some background of myself, I recently moved from Asia to Europe. I have friends playing this game both on EU server and JP server. So I need to run two characters to play with both sides. But be honest, it becomes a burden rather than fun now, as I can't invest double of the time on growing 2 characters.

That's why when there was an announcement on cross-DC traveling I was so exciting, while I can't express how sad I am when cross-region travel is banned.

If the reason is afraid of a culture shock when players in one region overwhelming into another region. Can SE consider charging users a small amount of real money (not gil) in order to reduce the overuse of the system at the very beginning?

That’s different from the current DC migration service, I don’t want to abandon my house and FC of my main.

[Shibi]

Hard no; that would just create 2 tiers of people, the richest of whom can play the marketboards cross-region.

[MatrixTXT]

Hard no; that would just create 2 tiers of people, the richest of whom can play the marketboards cross-region.

How about banning the MB and trade functionality as well. I don't think playing without MB is big issue. Otherwise, the culture conflict can be a reason to ban the cross-region travel forever. I can't see any possibility it will be solved.

[LianaThorne]

How about banning the MB and trade functionality as well. I don't think playing without MB is big issue. Otherwise, the culture conflict can be a reason to ban the cross-region travel forever. I can't see any possibility it will be solved.

I agree with this but not with trading. Shouldn't ban people from being able to trade things with friends on other servers. Market board access should be absolutely banned though and would probably solve the majority of worries that the devs have about cross-DC.

[Shibi]

I agree with this but not with trading. Shouldn't ban people from being able to trade things with friends on other servers.

Yeah, Nah.

Gil farmer makes cheap gear on XYZ server, travels to ABC server on another data centre and trades cheap gear to his level 15 alt who swamps that server with it for 1 gil less. Same thing other direction.

Still a hard no on paid DC travel, it makes 2 classes of people.

[MatrixTXT]

Yeah, Nah.

Gil farmer makes cheap gear on XYZ server, travels to ABC server on another data centre and trades cheap gear to his level 15 alt who swamps that server with it for 1 gil less. Same thing other direction.

Still a hard no on paid DC travel, it makes 2 classes of people.

We ALREADY have paid DC travel be honest, 20USD you can move everything from one DC to another. What I am asking is more less the same without also moving your house and FC.

So the problem is what's an adequate amount and meanwhile I do think it is an experimental way for people in different region get at least certain level of interaction, while no bringing the culture conflict.

[Padudu]

I'd rather them not tack on more services for a service you already pay for, that being said I think cross region DC travel would only be possible with strict regulations, with how RMT and botting is already a problem, cross region would make it worse.

"paid DC travel" just to RMT/bot isn't a usual occurrence I'd imagine..

[MatrixTXT]

I'd rather them not tack on more services for a service you already pay for, that being said I think cross region DC travel would only be possible with strict regulations, with how RMT and botting is already a problem, cross region would make it worse.

"paid DC travel" just to RMT/bot isn't a usual occurrence I'd imagine..

I understand your concern. But it is actually just more less similar to our current "DC immigration service", if a bot or rmt want to do sth with cross region traveling, they can already do it with 20USD.

Meanwhile I just suggest a less aggressive "immigration", which won't affect your house and FC. Like a balance between complete migration and DC travel

[Ronduwil]

Gil farmer makes cheap gear on XYZ server, travels to ABC server on another data centre and trades cheap gear to his level 15 alt who swamps that server with it for 1 gil less. Same thing other direction.

I'm having trouble seeing how this works. You can't actually trade with your alt unless it's on a different account. Is gil so hard to come by that someone would go to the trouble of getting a second account to game the system? I don't even make a concerted effort to farm it, and I seem to have more gil than I'll ever conceivably spend.

[Illmaeran]

Is gil so hard to come by that someone would go to the trouble of getting a second account to game the system?

Yes, it happens all the time; RMT people have tons of accounts and alts. I don't know for certain if it's RMT related or not, but a small group of people with a huge number of alts and a million retainers have de facto control of the market on Atomos. The prices they charge are low enough to ensure regular players don't make much of a profit on crafted goods while the cartel rakes in the money. It's hit the point where it's more profitable to sell [them] raw materials than it is to sell finished goods.

Intra-DC travel with the ability to purchase from all market boards on a DC causes enough issues. We don't need the ability to interact with another DC's economy.