When do you think they'll add cross-region data center travel? OCE is screwed!

[Edelgarde]

Honestly, if they're gonna bin that idea, why can't they just merge Materia data center with Dynamis? Might as well right? Who cares about the ping when we want to prioritise on doing content we want. Or a better idea is just letting us be part of another logical data center, but keep our ping. The data center is doomed if they're choosing to bin cross-region data center travel. It's dead. We lost 30% of endgame players in OCE (since these players are very active and want to do content at any time of the day), and those 30% were the smart ones, and the 70% of us are the bloody idiots who had faith in Yoshi P and his team to help fix our problem.

Yeah, I said it. We are idiots for thinking that the issues of Materia data center were going to be addressed by now. Not solved! But has at least been acknowledged. I was really hoping they could tell us that they know what's been going on and they are currently trying to think of a way to help Materia players have a better experience on trying to do content outside the MSQ.

But nothing has been said about it, and they are choosing to be cowards about it by staying silent, because they know very well how bad it looks on OCE when they openly admit that the data center is a complete failure, which means that the players who read about it are likely never going to transfer over. But I reckon it will be better for the existing players who have stayed in Materia to know that the situation will be handled eventually. They need to be told that the data center is not neglected, in order for them to cling onto it and hope for an eventual fix.

For me, I'm getting out of Materia soon. I've lost my patience.

[AlunKha]

Materia is an investment in community building in the OCE region, Gard. It will take a long time to build and foster into something great. If you don't have the patience for that, you don't have to stay.
Yes, there are definitely ways SE can help us along (DC travel isn't one of them! In it's current form there's no way for Materia to interact with other data centres, and even if we could we'd have to forfeit our good ping in order to do it), but it's also down to us to run community events and encourage people to join in. Unfortunately, the middle of the expac isn't really the best time to run them. Even the big populated DCs have lower engagement right now, it happens every expac. We're in a little lull, and with some big games out it's a good time to step back and play other things.
But again, if that's not what you want in your game experience then transferring to a higher pop DC is the way to go. No one's forcing you to stay on Materia, especially if you're not happy.

[Edelgarde]

but it's also down to us to run community events and encourage people to join in.

We have. Trust me. We really have did our best. But people got burnt trying to keep the engine rolling. Like for me, I helped establish the peak times for Frontlines in OCE. Another person established the hunt trains and the Eureka fate trains for the newbies. Then you have the venue owners who want to do a cool thing for the RP community, but most of them have closed because they were just dissatisfied from the turnout. And people are already losing their motivations to keep things running when we feel like we're dealt an unwinnable hand, because we know that the most active players, have already transferred back back. There's only so much the players can do for their data center, but what's causing the problem to persist is just us losing the population. Yeah we're in a content lull and people are taking breaks, but the people who are still active and want to do whatever content they want are already back to their previous data center. So what can we do after that?

I don't really expect people to understand, because they have not experienced what OCE players have experienced. I'm just venting because eventually it's gonna be mentioned so many times, I'm hoping Yoshi P and the team actually do acknowledge the issue. Am I being annoying about it? Yeah. This is probably the last thread I make about this before I move on, because later on it's not gonna be my problem anymore.

[Shibi]

Building a new server has never been easy, in any game.

Even if you do choose to leave us for greener fields, it still helps the ANZ community if you can kindly consider to retain an alt foothold with us, try to run a few queues a week at any level, and most of all stay positive.

Just finding a few hours a week will keep helping the community.

Do what's right for you though, above all! That's important.

[Jeeqbit]

Building a new server may not be easy, but Dynamis has had it so much easier because people just DC travel if they can't queue for content or have high market board prices. All content is benefiting from people traveling to Dynamis as well. People looking for statics don't have to restrict themselves to Dynamis. All of that benefits the growth of Dynamis.

All advantages that Materia does not have because SE didn't do cross-region travel.

[AlunKha]

I don't really expect people to understand, because they have not experienced what OCE players have experienced.

I've been there from the start, Gard, but I didn't go to OCE expecting it to be my main hub for however long I continue playing this game. I understand, I just feel differently.

[LaylaTsarra]

They need to take some action it's months and it's not getting better. If anything people are leaving because of the new DC in NA. 5 underpopulated servers aren't going to magically fill unless some additional action is taken by SE. More incentives dunno what maybe more gil/xp but seriously DC travel is probably an easy way to at least help the queues people can't get to pop.

Even on Halicarnassus it's hard to get some things to pop but DC travel keeps the experience positive until the additional servers are added and the DC reaches critical mass.

Not adding fully populated Japanese servers was a cop out and a mistake. Let them either DC travel to English speaking servers or to Japan.

They can cite cultural similarities with Europe, North American and Materia. They can still keep the Japanese apart for now and hopefully open that as well one day.

[Shibi]

All advantages that Materia does not have because SE didn't do cross-region travel.

SE has made innumerable mistakes. Just a few off the top of my head:

Delaying housing for so long at the start. Was darned well 6 months before we got housing. I mean stone the bloody crows.
No DC travel, even if precious JP is isolated from the rest of the world playing together.
Putting the server in Sydney not Singapore. Even as someone enjoying 16ms pings right now, this one was a massively huge booboo.
Holding on to the FC/Personal split, still.
Starting with 5 servers not 3 servers.

The list goes on.

But ultimately, everyone can leave and the server is shut when 7.0 fails to be the hype train they expect, another nail in the coffin for the entire SEA region in all games, or people can keep trying to make it work and at the same times keep pushing SE to pull their corporate heads out of their corporate arses and assist us.

[Tigerlilley]

SE has made innumerable mistakes. Just a few off the top of my head:

Delaying housing for so long at the start. Was darned well 6 months before we got housing. I mean stone the bloody crows.
No DC travel, even if precious JP is isolated from the rest of the world playing together.
Putting the server in Sydney not Singapore. Even as someone enjoying 16ms pings right now, this one was a massively huge booboo.
Holding on to the FC/Personal split, still.
Starting with 5 servers not 3 servers.

The list goes on.

But ultimately, everyone can leave and the server is shut when 7.0 fails to be the hype train they expect, another nail in the coffin for the entire SEA region in all games, or people can keep trying to make it work and at the same times keep pushing SE to pull their corporate heads out of their corporate arses and assist us.

Another big one - releasing it like week 3 of the savage raid release and an Ultimate scheduled to be within the month. Zero raiders who enjoy high end content were thinking, hey, lets go to lonely island and get cut off from the greater raiding community while all the new stuff is coming out.

We had raid teams completely ready to pack and leave right up until they said there will be no region travel. Everyone weighed up their personal playstyles and habits in game and OCE lost out on being able to fulfill a lot of those. People who play during day time, people who pug savage. I did that 4.5hour queue time for Aglaia which ended at 4pm on a Saturday a few months ago and just...gave up. Never tried again, actually, now I think about it. I raid log with my raid group and then go back to my char on Behemoth so I can play the game.

Being an from NZ, the idea that we'd have a population large enough to sustain even one server was so absurd I don't think anyone thought they would choose to just -not release- the region travel they talked about. There was no doubt in anyones mind that SE would see how small the OCE population really is and act accordingly.

And then... here we are. Watching it rot.

[Tigerlilley]

Double post but I wanted to add: I do wish they would consolidate the "Worlds" forums here into datacentres, rather than have it seperate for each server. It made sense when we were all independent of each other but it doesn't anymore.

The server forums are dead with everyone piling into General Discussion instead for visibility and there's no real space for "EU" or "NA" or "OCE" to give feedback on things that relate to their datacentre.