Quote Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato View Post
The problem is that a lot of people are currently satisfied with things as-is:


So how do you change the infrastructure for this game while keeping those people happy? They like the system as-is. Maybe they like being in a dead DC. This is likely why Square Enix won't do any upgrades, because people just like everything they're currently doing. The fanbase of this game is very easy to please, Square can throw anything at them and they'll like it no matter what it is. It's hard to incentivize drastic and costly changes when everyone basically likes everything no matter what it is.
That's a really good question.

I can't speak for NA or OCE as I'm in the EU but for ours, it was unfortunate as we needed new servers badly after the EW launch due to covid and chip shortages it was delayed until last summer. I actually anticipated more people to transfer over given the housing issues on large servers but alas, it's pretty dead on that front. Although, we haven't got our new DC yet and these servers were added to the Light and Chaos DC respectively so DF/PF matchup hasn't been affected at all. I feel for anyone playing on a brand new DC where this would be an issue.

While I fully support adding more servers and DC, as the game continues to grow it is just unfortunate with the timing for some regions. It will (hopefully) be much better later this year and next when 7.0 launches.