Quote Originally Posted by cakesphere View Post
They need to kill dc travel for at least the start of xpac...aether is already horribly congested and more dead worlds with people DC traveling here will only make it worse. Go do content on your own DCs, sheesh.
I think that would just make things worse. People have had years to DC travel and meet new people at this point. Imagine telling someone they couldn't see their friends from Dynamis for months because "it's the start of the xpac" or something. People would be seriously bummed out. In theory though, this might help build up the DC... but in practice, most people play this game after work in their spare time; they aren't interested in building a world community from the ground up in the limited free time they have. They just want to log in, do some content, and log off. I'm not saying everyone's like this, but enough people are to where forcibly locking them in a dead zone would have a negative effect. I could see loads of people transferring off or simply not playing as much until they could travel and see their friends/get stuff done in a reasonable timeframe again.

For what it's worth, I would have agreed with your sentiment if DC travel hadn't already been a thing for such a long time anyway. Genie's out of the bottle now, though; trying to cork it back in now that everyone's connected and used to it would be nuts. Square should lean into what they have and give us cross-dc partyfinders, cross-dc linkshells, and cross-dc free companies instead. Break down the datacenter barriers so nobody has to travel in the first place; let people get stuff done without leaving home.