Data Center Travel is ruining server Party Finder

[LianaThorne]

Except that's not really true. Crystal had a perfectly good and decently populated raiding scene pre-DC travel. I know because I used it. And if anything, it's the fact that basically all combat PF activity has disappeared supports that, because all the people who want to do that content (raiders) are now over on Aether all the time. Crystal is known for RP, but it's hardly the ONLY thing players there are interested in.

Fair enough if this is true, I just have a different experience. I used to be on Primal at the beginning of Endwalker (pre-DC travel) and had people in my circle/FC get called over to Crystal to fill PFs since they weren't able to get them filled for 30m+, as in they specifically had alt characters (leveled or paid) to help fill raid parties on Crystal.

So, I believe you that it had a raid scene but I don't believe, in my opinion, that it was ever really on the same scale as Primal/Aether. DC travel definitely demolished it though and turned it mainly into the RP-centered DC it is now with, in my opinion, public access to Balmung and other NSFW hubs leading the charge. The explosion of clubs during Covid + DC travel really screwed up a lot and at this point, unless the devs actually step in, I don't think it's ever going to recover.

Kind of wish DC travel was never a thing and just cross-PF was created in its place as someone who is also on Crystal now and would like to not have to sit in a queue to have a chance to raid lol.