Data Center and PF

[Worldofwarcraft]

Hello everyone,

As of late many players within the Primal data center have stopped making PF's all together in Primal and simply move over to Aether. This has caused an issue where PF on primal and Crystal (for content) is dead, and the community as a whole has moved over to Aether for party finder.

Now inheritently the ability to travel to different Data Centers is great, and I don't blame SE for this problem. I feel like it is something that wasn't predictable, but at the same time it totally makes sense as to why it happened. Aether has always been the "most" raid centered DC, therefore it stands to reason players would move over to Aether to open their PF's.

I've heard the argument "well the players are at fault" well that's a irrelevant statement because naturally players are going to go wherever they can go to find content, it is up to the developers to fine tune and adapt to situations as the need arises.

With all that being said, Does SE have any plans to address the party finder situation in NA? I can't say anything in regards to Asia or Eu as I do not play those servers.

Personally I say get rid of the DC and just have Regions data centers.
NA
Asia
EU
Oceanic
That way if you are on the NA DC
You can just move over to any server you like at any time. I understand this is not as simple as simply flipping a switch, however in the long run a situation like this is ultimately the most healthy option for the game.
Once this is done all PFs would be unified.
As for people who fear seeing RP in their PF, well you can just filter those out so a concern like that is irrelevant

[Musashidon]

the solution will most likely be the future cloud servers where they will eventually put na servers all in the same pool when they wont have to worry about instances being full.

[Worldofwarcraft]

Agreed this is what I believed would happen as well, I just wish SE would say something regarding the PF issue. Even something as simple as "we are going to address this at a future point" would suffice for me. I am aware however, that , that is a bit unrealistic.

[Jojoya]

Agreed this is what I believed would happen as well, I just wish SE would say something regarding the PF issue. Even something as simple as "we are going to address this at a future point" would suffice for me. I am aware however, that , that is a bit unrealistic.

They did mention it. For some reason, they thought it was only a problem affecting players on the JP data centers. Hopefully the howl of disbelief coming from NA/EU players got through to them.

At the time, YoshiP said that he wasn't certain what they could do to fix the problem other than shut down data center travel. They are trying to think of better solutions than that.

[MsMisato]

They did mention it. For some reason, they thought it was only a problem affecting players on the JP data centers. Hopefully the howl of disbelief coming from NA/EU players got through to them.

At the time, YoshiP said that he wasn't certain what they could do to fix the problem other than shut down data center travel. They are trying to think of better solutions than that.

the fact that they thought it was only affecting the JP servers kind of shows the community liason/ambassador/whatever it called and the devs really don't pay attention to what happening on the non JP servers. This topic has been brought up a lot over the year especially when they rolled out dynamis its freaking glaring how bad its hurts. I kind of wish they would shut down DC travel if they can't figure out how to fix it.

[Lunaxia]

Unpopular opinion, but I think quite a few areas of the game plummeted when they opened up cross-world travel. It's handy if you have friends spread around and don't want to transfer, but it seems to be causing problems in just about every other aspect. I don't really know how they could address it without either a) removing it entirely or b) merging everything as you suggest, but as little as I know about that sort of thing, previous information makes it seem pretty much impossible. I also have a vague suspicion NA raiders and RPers wouldn't be jazzed about sharing a PF if current complaints are anything to go by...

(And it's "inherently", btw.)

[CidHeiral]

DC travel was a mistake.

[WeebPolice]

DC travel was a mistake.

Square Enix:

[CidHeiral]

Square Enix:

lmao 10/10

[Nizzi]

I hate Aether so much its unreal