Why? Because there is eff all to do in dead cope data center Materia. I'm almost tempted to just lose my houses just to transfer back to my old data center. The reason why people are transfering out of Materia data center is because:

1. Most SEA players have chosen not to transfer over despite the Square Enix thinking they would, but they have underestimated the dedicated community that has been established in Elemental.

2. Players from Materia can't visit other data centers with their main, and have to make do with an alt, so we simply can't bring our best glamour to other data centers. We can't show off our achievements to other players.

3. OCE skill level is an absolute joke on terms of both PvP and PvE level, and people don't want to deal with the majority of the players over here.

4. Because of how lowly populated the data center is, it's almost impossible to unlock raid content (besides from mandatory crystal tower story) without asking for help from other people to do it unsynced in the duty finder. Duty sync if they're lucky enough to get 24 people.

5. Niche content is so dead. Even casual PvP only has a 9 hour peak time over here. Ranked pvp is dead because the majority of pvp players got their top 100 title, and pissed off for better pastures. Frontlines peak time is just around 2 hours.

6. The domino effect of the disaster. It all stemmed from Square Enix thinking SEA players would transfer over. The moment that idea was a complete failure, people who were enthusiastic about now being in Materia data center have now transferred back, making the state of the data center even worse.

It is the worst it has ever been here and the fact that we don't get to cross data center other regions and be isolated from all the other logical data centers is one of the most stupid business decisions that Square Enix has done. You have left the data center to be doomed. You could of easily fixed this issue by letting people travel to other data centers with their main, but you didn't.

If you're so against having all data centers be connected and you're too scared of the potential consequences where one data center is permanently full cause all players are trying to travel to that data center, then here's a better solution:

Just let Materia data center be part of either NA or JP data centers. Let them join. If you think JP want nothing to do with us, just let us join NA then. There has got to be way to fix this, because you're wasting money on this data center, and if you don't fix what's going on here, you're dealt with a losing hand where you have to delete the data center, and that is going to backfire on you.

We've been doing our best here trying to get new players into older content and there have been discords to help players struggling in OCE. But Square Enix can't keep making us fix the issues ourselves. They have to do something, because players will keep transferring out and I'm going to do the same.