Materia/Oceanican Data Center needs help please!

[Supersnow845]

Materia has been hilariously mismanaged by both square enix and the materia/materia aside playerbase

I’ll admit I fled materia back to jenova so call me out on that if you will, I guess I shoulder a level of the blame but overall the data centre is an unmitigated disaster

Square launched it during the player boom and anti wow sentiment era then pushed out zero worthwhile content to attempt to keep people playing so people fled from all data centres and materia veterans had little choice but to flee to NA or JP if they wanted to do old grinds to fill the void (like having a playable eureka or MINE community), leaving the data centre floundering for people which further pushed the content towards low level content further annoying the remaining vets (be honest for those who are either on or spent a long time in materia how often did your alliance raid spit out anything besides CT, it’s a problem on all data centres but in 1.5 years there I literally never had a non CT raid pop)

Now this floundering population has led to the infamous materia “do it through PF”, the only instances in this game you should have to unsync PF just to get a basic clear should be coils and that’s because of coils unique nature, you should not need to unsync eden raids during Saturday night prime time because the roulettes don’t pop them, however the playerbase constantly telling new materia players to do this feeds into the cycle of further starving the roulettes which further biases them towards MSQ content and the whole cycle repeats

If square doesn’t show some serious commitment to materia and making repeatable content to hold veterans to the game in 7.0 I can honestly say materia is doomed (dynamis isn’t far behind and that 3rd EU data centre is DOA), 7.0 is really going to either be 14’s renaissance or the time when most everyone agrees it’s truly entering its slowdown

[ChrysOCE]

you should not need to unsync eden raids during Saturday night prime time because the roulettes don’t pop them, however the playerbase constantly telling new materia players to do this feeds into the cycle of further starving the roulettes which further biases them towards MSQ content and the whole cycle repeats

There may be some saying that but the majority I see encourages (and prefers) people to do content syncd. But yea, PF is the default position which, given the low pop, is not a surprise.

To me, its all on Square. Whatever the solution is, they need to do something. How can you spend that much capex, setting up a DC, to then just let it flounder? And the thing is, there's just no acknowledgement. No real news. Nothing will be mentioned at the fan fests, about Materia directly. Oh, they may say some nonsense about waiting to see more evidence/data around cross-dc travel/cross-dc df/pf, but that's just noise.