Data Center and PF

[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.

[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.

[TaleraRistain]

I mean, we didn't ask for literally everyone to come to us, this wasn't our fault. It's not our fault people had a certain expectation of us and then flocked to us for running content. I don't like it either because people come here and expect us to be amazing and then complain if there's wipes and say stuff like "I thought this was the raiding data center".

Most people are chill but I've seen someone say that a few times, too. My sibling in Hydaelyn, we can screw up just like any other DC.

[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.

[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DC coz DC sucks, maybe instead of disabling DC travel (coz next you gonna ask for disabling transfers), we just disable outdated DC thing itself?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