Limited Cross Region DC Travel

[Ryvick]

Link to the announcement for the 24th of March:

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...def5ddcd343779

[Jeeqbit]

I'm glad it's happening. The cloud test showed that all the regions can play together and this will be another opportunity to show that.

If it goes well, they could apply the same rules to Dynamis on 7.0 release.

[Larirawiel]

YAAAAY ... i mean ... NOOOOOO! My alts will become unnecessary now. xD




Cheers

[Oizen]

Can't wait for the rest of the planet to be forced to DC travel to Aether just to have an active PF too.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Can't wait for the rest of the planet to be forced to DC travel to Aether just to have an active PF too.

The Aetherial Manipulation of PF is real. This is true Despair... q_q

...

/j

[Ravenblade1979]

Can't wait for the rest of the planet to be forced to DC travel to Aether just to have an active PF too.

We on aether didn't deem is the content DC lol. If people learned to stay away then it would be fine. I want to see the system tweaked so savages, ultimates and latest extremes cant be done off your native data center

[Ravenblade1979]

Link to the announcement for the 24th of March:

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...def5ddcd343779

The cloud data center I think was the true test. Multi regions swarmed it and we had a blast.

This is just not needed. Bring in the cloud data centers and let us have fun that way.

[DrForester]

What an absolute waste of resources.

We don't need cross DC travel*. We need cross DC party finders. Servers going to blow up when Dawntrail raids hit and everyone is overloading 1 DC in each region.

*- Hilarious that the one DC that DOES actually need regional travel (Oceana) is the one DC that can't travel in this test. They should have always let them travel to JPN DCs where they started.

[Supersnow845]

What an absolute waste of resources.

We don't need cross DC travel*. We need cross DC party finders. Servers going to blow up when Dawntrail raids hit and everyone is overloading 1 DC in each region.

*- Hilarious that the one DC that DOES actually need regional travel (Oceana) is the one DC that can't travel in this test. They should have always let them travel to JPN DCs where they started.

This way works better, it encourages people to mingle on OCE (even if you have no interest in OCE itself you can intermingle with people from the other regions together on OCE), letting people from materia travel out of materia (to either aether or elemental) just makes materia an extension of said DC for no benefit like dynamis currently is for aether

[Aexnidaral]

This is exciting, and I hope they expand it to be permanent and accessible for all regions. I think the Cloud Test Servers showed that when people are willing to give one another basic respect and be decent and communicative, we can work together regardless of where we come from because we all share the same baseline experience of loving the game and wanting to enjoy it with other players!

I really hope this test winds up being a success and puts to bed the myth and weird rhetoric of cultural differences being so strong that we need to wall off specific regions from one another.

That said, I think that Cross DC Party Finder/Duty Finder is probably far more important to the health of the game, and should be prioritized as such, as currently every region in the game seems to have one Data Center that has kind of become the "go to" place to get any content done that isn't just roulettes (or even roulettes, if you're from Dynamis.)