Limited Cross Region DC Travel

[littlehobbit13]

The timezone shift will stop the majority of NA players, who want to play on JP servers. I highly doubt, that the players will wake up at 5 or 7 am to raid on JP servers.

Certainly possible, maybe even likely, but I've crossed paths with quite a few people who schedule their raiding around the timezones of other people so I guess we'll see how it plays out.

[Taliriah]

absolutely[/I] run over there to try and participate in what they believe is a raiding utopia and it's undoubtedly going to cause problems. It's foolish and naïve to think it won't.

they'd quickly give up because of the bad ping they'd get

[ZiraZ]

The timezone shift will stop the majority of NA players, who want to play on JP servers. I highly doubt, that the players will wake up at 5 or 7 am to raid on JP servers.


Cheers

Timezone shift goes out window once a mega server is created, once a sizable population congregates on a server the population becomes so dense that it becomes active during all timezones and you get a Tranquility-lite server effect.
SE is gonna need to implement measures that dissuade people from flocking into one datacenter, high ping is also not a deterrent in this game, it's perfectly playable with high ping

[EstelleCere]

I know people speculate on what might happen with this, and I have my own worries as well with the cross region travel, but I think the main thing that people should think about (or at least, I think about) is that we don't actually know what is going to happen once this becomes implemented, or if it becomes implemented, so that's what the test is for. We can assume things might end up like how they did with world travel, but from my experience from playing on both EU and NA, I feel like people most likely will not end up hoarding to other servers for raiding and such because each one has their own ways of raiding and their own strats/skills that differ between data center. Like I know people always said that Aether is the raiding server, but from my experience I always kind of found raiding on EU to be a bit more pleasant (no offense, just my experience lol) so it just depends on how you look at it. Literally the only reason why I am excited for this is so I can see my friends again on EU easier than with an alt.

[Mcg55ss]

Nah, NA has a huge amount of EU players and the inverse is true for EU with NA players. And JP has a very large English speaking community with a lot of people from NA. All the possibility of Cross region raiding will do is allow people who don't wanna leave their friends and personal comforts to do it now.

Really I thought JP people hated English-speaking people on their server so much that they basically complain until oceanic was made to push everybody off their servers

[PercibelTheren]

I just wanna be able to play with my NA based friends without having to make an alt and run it through the MSQ. Please, SE.

[strawberrycake]

Really I thought JP people hated English-speaking people on their server so much that they basically complain until oceanic was made to push everybody off their servers

Thats a very specific JP server amongst them all.

[OogaShaka]

I think this will really mess with the market boards if they have access to it , and if they do have access SE should at least link all market boards in all areas to stabilize prices something they should do anyways so material is always available imho.

[Shibi]

I think this will really mess with the market boards if they have access to it , and if they do have access SE should at least link all market boards in all areas to stabilize prices something they should do anyways so material is always available imho.

Hmmm, the marketboards in Materia are deader than a doornail so there isn't really anything to mess up, although one could make a case for a 2 account JP <-> OCE <-> EU <-> OCE <-> NA trade happening to move goods from Light to Aether, or Balmung to Tonberry. But all they need to do to counter that is to stop trade. At that point, doesn't matter - without trade data centre isolation is maintained.

[Astyrah]

Really I thought JP people hated English-speaking people on their server so much that they basically complain until oceanic was made to push everybody off their servers

it's not that they hate english players per se, it's more like they get frustrated when said english player doesnt read a guide before getting into content, fails mechanics and then can't communicate due to language barrier. if you can read/write nihongo and converse with them without a machine translator (deepl/google) they are more than fine playing with you regardless of where you are from. if you (the english speaking player) gets into content prepared, play well and clear content you wont hear a word from the jp players at all besides yoroshiku and otsukaresama