Limited Cross Region DC Travel

[littlehobbit13]

I'm shocked by how many replies -- given the shit show that DC travel become in killing whole PFs -- are like "omg this sounds like the best thing ever I can't foresee any way this wouldn't just be an overall win".

Honestly, this just sounds like opening Pandora's box to me. They haven't finished working out issues for the problems players are expressing concerns over with DC travel, but they're like "region travel is the answer"? I don't have the warm fuzzies from this news, and I think doing it with OCE to start is going to give some false positives about how well a full implementation would go.

[Anienai]

More people can come to Dynamis!!!

[GTK0HLK]

It could also be that this test is designed to give flawed results. "We're opening the gates (to OCE) so everyone can experience regional mixing!" JP players: "Why would I want to go region traveling when I have everything I need on home DC?"

Almost like it's set up for demonstrating "ok, all the other data centers can get along fine, we'll just keep JP locked and isolated."

Basically/Effectively making JP just like KR/CN or other locked off regions.
[Except they aren't, but for some actual reasons, and mostly unreasonable points they believe it'll be hell in their servers.

<Can't Blame them with how a bunch if "Tourists" have been trashing their other entertainment mediums with BS> ]

[Abriael]

I too hope that the barriers between data centers fall completely. We're in 2024 and we live in a globalized world. It's absolutely nonsensical to keep players segregated by region.

Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 had no such issue, and their communities absolutely benefited from it. I was there for both since the very start and I can testify to that. As a matter of fact, they both had better communities than FFXIV post-2.0.

Cultural differences should be embraced, not shunned. They're an added value and not a liability.

As for the differences in economy, that's absolutely irrelevant. There are plenty of differences in economy between data centers of the same region, and even between servers of the same data center. That did not discourage them from opening world travel and then data center travel, making that objection to cross-region travel simply an excuse.

That's even more obvious when they open the Oceanian data center to everyone, and that's the one with the biggest difference since it's the newest.

Back in 2019, I interviewed Yoshi-P, and he drew this.



It's exactly what you think it is, as an illustration of what he told me, that the ultimate goal was to remove all barriers between regions.

I hope we still get that, because in 2024 these barriers make absolutely zero sense.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Europe to Oceania is probably the worst idea for cross-region travel... The latency from EU to NA isn't always even great, going an even bigger distance isn't going to help...

[ZiraZ]

All paths will end up leading to the same result: Aether Supremacy

[Bonoki]

Oh cool, this will increase the Venue and RP experience in Oceania without actually improving or addressing any of the actual problems the Data Center faces. Why go to Oceania to queue content when we can still go to Aether for a faster experience?

[CidHeiral]

They need to delete DC travel, not expand it.

[Abriael]

They need to delete DC travel, not expand it.

Oh yeah, being able to play with your friends anywhere they are without needing to make a new character is such a terrible thing

Imagine thinking we should be confined to our datacenters and regions in 2024.

[littlehobbit13]

Imagine thinking we should be confined to our datacenters and regions in 2024.

Imagine thinking they should be expanding to region travel when they haven't even worked out the problems from their first attempt with DC travel.

I'd much rather see them address the issues with DC travel first, hammer out the details to restore the full play experience to travelers before they take a crack at region travel. Make it first so people have cross-DC comms, or can reach at least the inventory of their retainers, or can access timed nodes or their islands, etc. Don't continue to build on top of a weak foundation. Stabilize what you have, THEN do something bigger.