Travel Restrictions

[Centershock]

All we can do now is pray that they will lift travel restrictions in 7.05, which should theoretically be out on the 30th?

[Hasrat]

This was pretty predictable. Releasing the raids meant even a slight uptick in players, to their minds, still worth keeping congestion mitigation in place. And also the simple fact of still wanting to boost Dynamis population/engagement...

[SophiaDL]

I will be moving my main away from Dynamis since apparently their plan is to force people to make characters on Dynamis with the "good" excuse of congestion (and it could happen again, who knows?), there are 0 queues that are abnormal on any world at this point, they are trying to force people to go on Dynamis, as if when the restrictions are lifted people wont transfer away to other DC's or at the very least go on Aether via DC travel for raiding and Crystal for RP

It's absolutely ridiculous and will make people on Dynamis consider moving to avoid getting stuck on the DC. At least it was the last straw for me to move away.

This was pretty predictable. Releasing the raids meant even a slight uptick in players, to their minds, still worth keeping congestion mitigation in place. And also the simple fact of still wanting to boost Dynamis population/engagement...

The second the restrictions will be gone, people will DC travel again as per pre DT, and people will transfer away since they were forced to create characters on Dynamis and will finally have the option to go fully populated DC's

This does nothing but delay the inevitable.

JP only has 1 DC locked down out of 4, which is Mana, the most populated one, it makes no sense to lock all of NA DC's aside from Dynamis, it made sense week 1, but not at this point, they are just pushing it and no one is complaining about it (until this thread).

[Hasrat]

JP only has 1 DC locked down out of 4, which is Mana, the most populated one, it makes no sense to lock all of NA DC's aside from Dynamis, it made sense week 1, but not at this point, they are just pushing it and no one is complaining about it (until this thread).

How does it make no sense when you yourself point out you won't ever touch the data center again? Their entire purpose was spreading and equalizing player distribution, and they've got an entire new data center to populate. There are constant cries of the data center being dead. And, let's not forget, the game is newly available to Xbox players. It makes perfect sense to forcibly encourage the data center to populate sufficiently that cries of it being dead diminish.

[SophiaDL]

How does it make no sense when you yourself point out you won't ever touch the data center again? Their entire purpose was spreading and equalizing player distribution, and they've got an entire new data center to populate. There are constant cries of the data center being dead. And, let's not forget, the game is newly available to Xbox players. It makes perfect sense to forcibly encourage the data center to populate sufficiently that cries of it being dead diminish.

Except that's not what it's doing, what it's doing is forcing people to be on there, knowing for a fact that once it opens again (which is at the latest 7.0.5 according to them) people will leave in droves, be it via DC travel or full world transfer, to more populated DC's.

It would make sense if people stayed, but a lot wont. They opened DC travel, they doomed Dynamis to fail at the same time as they did that, Aether is and will stay the raiding DC, and Crystal is and will stay the RP DC, and a massive amount of people will either transfer or DC travel to those, just like pre DT. If you seriously think that all of those people, including the travelers (that are a massive part of the current population on dynamis) are going to keep going there when DC travel opens back up, I dont know what to tell you. That's the same thing as people that expected people to keep going to Oceanic when they opened DC travel from NA to OCE, it lasted a few days and then died down, and now barely anyone even goes there anymore. The same will happen to Dynamis after the restrictions are lifted.

Not only that, but it's also heavily unfair by design that Dynamis players are stuck to their own DC while other DC's have 2 dc's to play in, it aint a good feeling.

Also adding one last thing, I have been on Dynamis for about 9 months or so at this point, maybe 10, and was very happy there, but once you start to restrict where I can DC travel to, with the excuse of congestion when there is absolutely none, that's where I personally draw the line, if they are going to keep DC travel restricted, at least be honest about it and say that it's to populate Dynamis and dont use a congestion that doesnt exist as an excuse.

[freekyfreezer]

I welcome it and hope they keep it as long as possible. A Chaos-free Light DC is a good DC

[Serenitey]

I welcome it and hope they keep it as long as possible. A Chaos-free Light DC is a good DC

Always have to hear from the selfish trolls. Those playing on Dynamis do not want to be stuck there. If you do not play there you do not have a voice in this.

[SophiaDL]

Always have to hear from the selfish trolls. Those playing on Dynamis do not want to be stuck there. If you do not play there you do not have a voice in this.

Im glad someone actually defends dynamis players tbh for once

Like legitimately as of right now, anyone outside of Dynamis has 3 DC's to play in, their main DC, Materia and Dynamis

Dynamis players have... Materia, which is completely empty, we have 1 less DC to play in, while we watch everyone travel to our DC. Mind you we also pay the same subscription for a sub par experience thanks to this useless restriction, and the excuse of congestion does not exist anymore, if anything, Seraph has more queue than Aether at peak times because Seraph basically became the new temporary Aether.

Dynamis players never asked to be the temporary Aether, we wanted the DC to have population yes, but not to become the trash can DC that everyone goes to while we are stuck there.

Its also extremely hypocritical when JP has 3 DCs open for DC travel and only one locked down

[Khryseis_Astra]

It would make sense if people stayed, but a lot wont. They opened DC travel, they doomed Dynamis to fail at the same time as they did that, Aether is and will stay the raiding DC, and Crystal is and will stay the RP DC, and a massive amount of people will either transfer or DC travel to those, just like pre DT.

This is part of the problem though, the idea that spawned along with DC travel that certain DCs were the only places to go for certain things. One thing I was hoping that would come out of this travel lock was people realizing they didn’t need to leave their DCs to do content. It’s been great having a full PF on Crystal! But even before the travel lock, I was still able to get most things done without traveling. And when I did travel, most of my parties were filled with people from Crystal anyway!

Every DC has all kinds of players, these DC “identities” are just silly in my opinion. Now if you wanted to make the case about the “vibe,” for lack of a better word, of the various DCs, ok. But saying you can’t raid anywhere other than Aether is ridiculous. I think people just check the local PF, don’t see what they’re looking for, and resign themselves to traveling. Which I get, not everyone wants to run a PF listing. But if you do, it usually fills!

And the same could be true for most of Dynamis… if those people who assume they “have” to travel just stayed on their own worlds, queues and PF would be better. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy at some point.

[luca20]

Every DC has all kinds of players, these DC “identities” are just silly in my opinion. Now if you wanted to make the case about the “vibe,” for lack of a better word, of the various DCs, ok. But saying you can’t raid anywhere other than Aether is ridiculous. I think people just check the local PF, don’t see what they’re looking for, and resign themselves to traveling. Which I get, not everyone wants to run a PF listing. But if you do, it usually fills!

I kinda disagree in this regard. as a crystal raider I always try to do as much as possible in crystal, and I did get all my EXs and P9S and P10S clears in crystal! but even trought I had no issue with farming EXs and even doing old content MINE like A8S on crystal, any ultimate or current savage was not going to happen. If I wanted to get my weekly reclears in a timely matter or fill a TOP party at all I was forced to go to aether which really sucked.

One part of me kinda likes this setup to some extent, not being forced to DC travel to raid is just amazing, I wonder if allowing people to freely travel but taking away rewards from roulettes and savages if you aren't in your original DC/dynamis would be a good idea.