Remove the Gathering Restriction on Crossworld/Cross DC

[Jojoya]

A bit off-topic for this thread, but I disagree that congregating on a single data center is a player-created problem. It is a player-discovered, optimal solution to the game environment as it is currently designed by SE.

Multiplayer content works better with more people together, and we can freely DC transfer to congregate. Therefore, a single place of congregation makes sense from the players’ perspective.

For NA, for better or for worse, this place of congregation has become Aether.

(I hate this situation, by the way, but let’s not fault the players for it.)

In some cases, it's better. Not in all cases though.

Having 10,000 players instead of 6,000 players available doesn't help if the needed role ratio is 2-2-4 but the ratio of those available is 2-1-5. You're still going to have a large number of players waiting longer in hopes that others will show up to fill the missing role.

There's also a limit on how many instances the instance servers for each data center can have open at one time. Using some numbers for an example: if the instance servers can handle 1,000 concurrent 8 man instances but there are 10,000 players waiting, even if the role ratio is correct you've got 2,000 player that have to wait on some of the 8,000 in those instances to finish their duties so a new instance can be formed.

I don't think anyone wants another Raubahn EX-like situation yet the more that players congregate on a single data center, the more likely it is to happen.

If SE is satisfied by the results of the stress test this week, it could be that they have a solution to the problem of having huge number of players choosing to congregate on the same data center.

If they are not happy with the cloud servers, then it would have been better for everyone if at least 2,000 of those hypothetical 10,000 had remained on their home data center to use the instance server resources available there instead of overburdening the instance servers on the already congested data center they traveled to.

It is a problem that players have caused. They are using data center travel for reasons other than SE intended.

It is a problem that players can solve by staying on their home data center unless they are playing with friends on other data centers.

Or we can let SE implement the only solution available to them at this time - shut down data center travel completely.

Is that what players really want so they can avoid accepting responsibility for the choices they freely made? They could continue to blame things on the big evil SE but it's not going to restore their access to other data centers if SE does not have anything else they can implement.