Data Center and PF

[Remolia]

You know that there used to be zero DC or world travel at all, right? And the game existed quite comfortably. Servers actually had some semblance of community and identity to them, and PF was able to function properly instead of being overcrowded or a wasteland depending on the DC you were in.

We also used to have 1 EU datacenter, until it got spitted into 2 parts, and screwed alot of PvP queues and other queues/finders.
If data centers were fine, people wont mass use data center hops.

[MsMisato]

yea last night on crystal PF consisted of 100 different Pfs for venues out of 119 total in the party finder. XD it kind of sucks right now with DF. I see myself on Aether more and more and I will probably ending up moving back there. LIke I like when stuff happens on crystal but its not happening lately I get the concept, but they should have worked on making roulette and PF region wide first.

[Jeeqbit]

DC Travel did solve a problem that SE created.

Many years ago now, SE did a "Data Center" split. Many people on Crystal were faced with a choice: leave their friends behind on Crystal for the "raid DC" Aether, or stay on Crystal and struggle with the smaller raid community. Their friends got split apart and if they did not have contact with them any other way, then that was the end of their relationship unless they made an alt (which many people did). They also had to part ways with their FC. This destroyed some people's friend circles or FCs to such a point, that they were sad or quit.

But SE hadn't stopped working to try and solve this problem and now it is solved. If those players return to the game, they can contact the players they lost contact with via DC travel, without being forced into playing an alt they don't care about.

It has just had some downsides to it as well, in the area of high-end content.

[Jeeqbit]

If someone is at the fanfest right now, maybe they can mention it to Yoshi-P or the others there... that people flock to Aether and Light for raids as well.

[Ravenblade1979]

Woa people leaving DC coz DC sucks, maybe instead of disabling DC travel (coz next you gonna ask for disabling transfers), we just disable outdated DC thing itself? And make only one DC for each region? And allow players to use crossregion PF and DF? Coz maybe some of them playing on weird timezones.

Disabling Datacenter hops will only force players to drop the game or pay for transfer.

And? That's a possibility but will force ppl back into their own DC to do content instead of swarming us on aether