Should the Xbox Beta lock all of the non new servers for character creation?

[Bobby66]

Was wondering how many people feel the xbox beta should lock character creation to only the new servers? Seems to be a reoccurring topic on the new servers.

[GTK0HLK]

Regardless of the Xbox servers.
It should of been done ages ago.
Sure the cynical may view it as creating a market for World/DC Transfers.

But in all threads covering Materia and Dynamis, it's always been a option.

Sadly whether honest or a joke.

While a kinda final option.

The Numbers of congestion where never enough for them to push the lock everything button yet.

And likely they had cloud test for the potential case of launch day congestion (only) safety net.

We will have to see what happens with DT.

I know some of us will likely make a MediaTour, or Launch Day Issues Bingo.

But as for Xbox, we'll just need to see how the beta runs.
and then see how the servers will deal with them.

[NekoMataMata]

The problem with this is half of Dynamis players or more don't stay on their own DC. This would essentially put new players at the mercy of whoever is left on the server currently, which includes learning to either DC travel elsewhere for content, or putting up a PF for a vast majority of later MSQ content.

They'd have to fully lock the servers down for everyone, and they won't do that.

[Canadane]

Well for beta testing they should use beta servers.
But once it's out of beta they should be welcomed to any server with open arms.

[Bobby66]

As a follow up question, do you think locking the servers and DC visits would break the experience for the community on the new Data centers?

At this point is really the only possible solution is to just open everything and make everything cross realm like MB's and queues?

Reason I brought this up cause I made an alt on the new servers and told myself I would not transfer off. Sadly content like ocean fishing does not even pop without going through the effort to try and set up a PF for it.

That is kind of sad.

[NekoMataMata]

As a follow up question, do you think locking the servers and DC visits would break the experience for the community on the new Data centers?

At this point is really the only possible solution is to just open everything and make everything cross realm like MB's and queues?

Reason I brought this up cause I made an alt on the new servers and told myself I would not transfer off. Sadly content like ocean fishing does not even pop without going through the effort to try and set up a PF for it.

That is kind of sad.

Ocean Fishing will always pop regardless of how many players there are. If you can't get a full boat then you have to wait 15 minutes or so though. The reason for the PF is because certain people on Dynamis want to casually go after the Ocean Fishing achievements, and they want as many people on board as possible.

Anyways, they should hopefully be locking down DCs for early DT release. I believe Yoshi stated that in an interview somewhere, which I'm very grateful for considering all know that otherwise Dynamis would actually end up with the worse queues possible as everyone decides that they're a big brain genius and tries to travel over for faster queues.

[Canadane]

Ocean fishing will always pop you can be solo in there, you just gotta wait for the hard limit of 15 minutes past the hour.
But I understand what you're saying. It's getting harder and harder to find groups on Primal too.

[Bobby66]

Apologize was unaware of the 15 minute thing, my impatient self normally does not wait that long before I go to PF.

Ocean Fishing will always pop regardless of how many players there are. If you can't get a full boat then you have to wait 15 minutes or so though. The reason for the PF is because certain people on Dynamis want to casually go after the Ocean Fishing achievements, and they want as many people on board as possible.

Anyways, they should hopefully be locking down DCs for early DT release. I believe Yoshi stated that in an interview somewhere, which I'm very grateful for considering all know that otherwise Dynamis would actually end up with the worse queues possible as everyone decides that they're a big brain genius and tries to travel over for faster queues.

Oh that is good to hear, hopefully it works out and people just don't transfer off the server before release before the lockdown.

[Toutatis]

Apologize was unaware of the 15 minute thing, my impatient self normally does not wait that long before I go to PF.

Just queue at xx.14 minutes. No waiting: the boat will always depart at xx.15 even if there were other departures before. And the chance to get spectrals is adjusted to the number of people on board.

[PaulH]

why? we didnt for mac, ps5, steam/windows. Big scary xbox wont make any difference to the other platforms.