Has the Materia Datacenter just been abandoned by SE?

[Runaes]

It's been a year since it's launch but there's been nothing mentioned on it,
Every OCE world is plagued by hackers. (Go to any OCE world and do a playersearch for lvl 1-5 in Limsa.)
Reports don't seem to ever get responses.
The entire DC seems to be doomed.

[kevin_satron]

well you can't stop these botters. they always appear in every single servers

[VeyaAkemi]

Every OCE world is plagued by hackers. (Go to any OCE world and do a playersearch for lvl 1-5 in Limsa.)

This is literally every server, US has that issue as well, the truth is you just can't stop them, you ban one and 5 take their place, they work like clones, "there are 200,000 units with a million more well on the way." and all that.

[Absimiliard]

The Materia data center has been abandoned by SE, the players, and God Himself.

[NekoMataMata]

Everyone I talk to that's from Materia has said they will never go back, and everyone that I've talked to that is currently there has said that they're in the process of transferring.

[Slayer25c]

You guys brag se for a oceana server when we know there was not the numbers for it lol

[AwesomeJr44]

It's been a year since it's launch but there's been nothing mentioned on it,
Every OCE world is plagued by hackers. (Go to any OCE world and do a playersearch for lvl 1-5 in Limsa.)
Reports don't seem to ever get responses.
The entire DC seems to be doomed.

I think it was a combination of a couple factors that killed Materia.

1) I don't think there were as many players who would need an OCE DC as people claimed there were.
2) People didn't want to abandon their home world/DC to travel there.
3) All of the worlds in Materia were brand new worlds with no existing players. (Not that I'd want any worlds to get moved there, but it would have helped)

I don't think it was necessarily 'abandoned' by SE but each of the major problems don't really have a solution that SE can use to fix it unless they want to transfer entire worlds over there. (And considering that they didn't when they made Dynamis, I think they've realized that they should be avoiding that 'solution', and thank goodness they have been) I feel like Materia should have just never have been introduced, but it's too late to simply delete it now.

[DixieBellOCE]

Said it once, Said it a million times.

There was no incentive for the majority of English speaking players from Elemental to move to Materia.

The largest population of English players on Elemental are from SEA and get worse ping to Materia than to JP, Majority of those cannot actually buy XIV in their home country, and either purchase it with a VPN to AUS/US.

The only chance Materia has to get more players in DC travel to US (Since we all know JP players do not want DC travel with English players).

[DixieBellOCE]

You guys brag se for a oceana server when we know there was not the numbers for it lol

The people that pushed the hardest for the OCE server were the JP players.

They wanted English players to leave.

[LianaThorne]

Said it once, Said it a million times.

There was no incentive for the majority of English speaking players from Elemental to move to Materia.

The largest population of English players on Elemental are from SEA and get worse ping to Materia than to JP, Majority of those cannot actually buy XIV in their home country, and either purchase it with a VPN to AUS/US.

The only chance Materia has to get more players in DC travel to US (Since we all know JP players do not want DC travel with English players).

DC travel won't fix your issues, just pointing that out. NA won't just start running content on Materia if it's enabled, it would most likely be Materia players coming to NA. Like the SEA players, we don't really have any incentive to abandon ship and move to Materia when we have the population and better ping here. If anything, Materia might look something similar to Dynamis where people use it for housing but exist entirely on other DCs.