I see some people saying that this is a player-created problem, that if only people stayed on Dynamis to queue, things would work out. I disagree.

SE has set things up the way they are now. These are the current "rules of the game":
- Players are spread across different home data centers
- Players get better DF and PF activity if more players are on the data center they are on
- Players can freely travel among data centers

The obvious, optimal solution to the "game" so to speak, as it is currently designed, is for *all players to try to play on a single data center* because doing so benefits *all* of those players.

This is the current game design from SE. It's not really a "self-fulfilling prophecy" to say that one data center is for raiding. It is the inevitable result of players choosing to play optimally! And we are gamers, of course that's what we are going to try to do.

Asking someone to voluntarily choose to seek DF and PF activity on a non-congregating data center is basically asking them to play suboptimally.

SE are the game designers, and it's a bit concerning if they never thought this through.

I hate what DC travel has done to my PF (Crystal) and my FC chat. All of the announcements around data-center travel that I remember pitched it as being a way to play with your friends. They could have accomplished this by having DF and PF inaccessible to travelers. No party creation, either. Your friends could have invited you to whatever activity, you're good. This would have been enough to keep people on their home DCs and Primal and Crystal would have been just fine, as they were before the change. Not sure about Dynamis, but I guess we'll never know.

The genie's out of the bottle and it's probably going to be awkward to remove free-reign DC travel now that people are using it. The only way out of this is cross-DC matchmaking.