It's not too late to save OCE.

[Shibi]

The biggest problem Materia has are the doom and gloomers who are working very hard on making it fail.

One day I can hope they will transfer back to Tonberry and just let the rest of us keep having fun without their mosquito-like whine.

(also in before the usual OF EU troll pops in to gloat in her usual schadenfreude way, signed with a "cheers!")

[VirusOnline]

i would say let the dc grow and see how it pans out
currently we have information on the growth of servers in pre-existing datacentres ie

sep 2017 - louisoix 91,000T 8,277A
sep 2018 - louisoix 166,000T 10,193A
sep 2019 - louisoix 77,000T 6,754A | spriggan 32,000T 4,822A
apr 2020 - louisoix 74,000T 8,835A | spriggan 30,000T 6,765A
dec 2021 - louisoix 100,000T 14,066A | spriggan 71,000T 13,777A
jan 2022 - louisoix 691,000T 13,033A | spriggan 544,000T 13,019A

*T = total characters
*A = active characters

oce is a new dc so unfortunately in that aspect i think it's a good experiement for se to see if new dcs are profitable in different regions

tldr give it a few years

[Aragon]

One day I can hope they will transfer back to Tonberry and just let the rest of us keep having fun without their mosquito-like whine.

(also in before the usual OF EU troll pops in to gloat in her usual schadenfreude way, signed with a "cheers!")

Go play a single player Worm 'like whine' or head to the dark alley of Ul'dah, EU players are awesome.

And while im here 8 servers 3 data centres for 400+ million USA population and all of South America 422.5 million + the island Caribbean's and Canada? makes sense ... not so much for oce.

louisoix is Europe 750 million+ population..
7,797,475 Million characters.

we have 150k characters in oce which isn't even Tonberry.
im voting for a strong community rather then a sparse one.

[Chie_M]

Materia is an itty bitty baby. Now that the disconnect issues have stopped, its only problem is people decrying it as dead when it's actually just brand new. You can get groups for anything here, even without going into that creepy Sophia-based Discord.

[PopPsycal]

How was the ping for you guys in toberry?

[sagacious]

not surprising considering the housing lock, and that it takes time to crossbreed for them

no there only 118k here on Ravana, Many home owners grow them. I just started my onion project two days ago.

[Jojoya]

Am I the only one to see the classical Titanmen style in the OP?

[DeNada]

5 servers is probably too much to be honest as Bismarck and Zurvan both are extremely dead with little activity. It would be much better to consolidate the Oce population into the 3 more populous servers (Ravana, Sophia and Sephiroth) so that their housing wards actually fill up and don't resemble ghost towns.

[LaylaTsarra]

5 servers is probably too much to be honest as Bismarck and Zurvan both are extremely dead with little activity. It would be much better to consolidate the Oce population into the 3 more populous servers (Ravana, Sophia and Sephiroth) so that their housing wards actually fill up and don't resemble ghost towns.

Going to be intersting to see how FC wards are affected once they allow private sales. There simply aren't that many FC's even on servers like Sophia.

[Larirawiel]

I have an alt on Materia. And yesterday it was not empty. Limsa Lominsa was full. Not so full like a typical Limsa on Light but it was not empty.

Cheers