New Shadow DC in the EU.

[Sotaris]

Hoo boy, what a waste of resources. They are going to be DOA.

[CidHeiral]

DC travel is not going anywhere, and it's baffling people think it will.

I doubt DC travel going anywhere either unfortunately. The previous person was saying Dynamis wouldn't be able to do content without DC travel. My point was that Dynamis' issues would disappear the instant DC travel disappeared because there are plenty of people on that DC, they just never stick around. It was a hypothetical.

All they have to do is enable cross-DC PF/DF and problem will also solve itself.

By all indications that is massive technical hurdle that may not even be possible to achieve. The only tangible solutions at this time would be disabling DC travel entirely, disable PF while on other DCs, or the community collectively agreeing to stop creating its own problem. Of course the likelihood of any of those happening is pretty much zero.

[LianaThorne]

Hoo boy, what a waste of resources. They are going to be DOA.

It's fine, it'll just become overflow housing for those who care enough while others complain they can't get their mansion but have no interest in moving. Same as Dynamis when it launched and still gets brought up today.

[Tethan]

How nice of them to add a whole new datacenter exclusively for submarine farmers.

[Luluna]

I would rather be on a quiet sever but that is just me but I am not going to give up my house to move.

[Reinha]

How nice of them to add a whole new datacenter exclusively for submarine farmers.

Made me lol, but realistically submarine farmers have hundreds of houses to choose from on any EU server. The biggest benefits of Shadow housing are going to be the free-for-all mansions and best quality mediums, plus the ability to buy up a single ward and decorate it with a theme in mind.

[WinglessSeraphim]

Made me lol, but realistically submarine farmers have hundreds of houses to choose from on any EU server. The biggest benefits of Shadow housing are going to be the free-for-all mansions and best quality mediums, plus the ability to buy up a single ward and decorate it with a theme in mind.

There's still so many mediums and smalls and the occasional large that pops up but because the housing snobs don't want them, they stay empty. Those same housing snobs will complain of housing scarcity because the houses that are available, the snobs are too good for.

There's a number of houses in ward 30 in The Goblet that are open. Come and see for yourselves. No? Ok, they stay empty.

[WinglessSeraphim]

When you are on the edgy "Shadow" dc...but your server is called cute "Pixie".... hm

The pixies in FFXIV are jerks so Shadow is a good place for them.

[Tethan]

Made me lol, but realistically submarine farmers have hundreds of houses to choose from on any EU server. The biggest benefits of Shadow housing are going to be the free-for-all mansions and best quality mediums, plus the ability to buy up a single ward and decorate it with a theme in mind.

Let's be real, only sub farmers with a billion alt accounts benefit. Real players will have to DC travel to Light to actually play the game, effectively locking them out of housing. Adding a new DC without having implemented regionwide DF/PF would be huge mistake that the game and playerbase would suffer from for years to come. I hope SE will see reason and address the issues before it is too late.

[Commander_Justitia]

only sub farmers with a billion alt accounts benefit

PvP players too, those who play ranked. Only having 3 servers compete for it, means way less competition.
When Diadem had crafting rankings, some people traveled to the less populated ones, for easy rank 1-12 titles.
So everything that is limited, will be good. Though Hunting is gonna get robbed again by the big train lol