FFXIV really needs to have cross-DC parties and queues. There’s simply no excuse. They destroyed queues in smaller data centers by encouraging everyone to transfer to play, making queues even worse until they’re dead. And it’s not just Dynamis. Party Finder on Crystal is almost entirely devoid of high-end content, while Aether has more listed parties than Crystal and Primal combined. In Japan, the Mana datacenter has 10x the amount of listed parties as every other DC in the region.

Either they need to converge datacenters entirely like every other major online game, or they need to take down DC travel until they do so. I know that FFXIV is an aging game owned by a small company in financial duress, but come on. Even WoW doesn’t have this problem and it’s 18 years old.