Guess I'll quit again...a story of loneliness where there should be friendship

[Turbocoupe]

I played FFXIV for many years with a couple of co-workers, and had a great time. Somewhere during early Endwalker they both quit playing for various reasons, and I was left alone, with no friends to play with. I kept playing, but it was lonely, and it ruined the game for me, and eventually I quit too.

Recently, I made a new RL friend, and imagine my surprise when we're talking and I found out he plays FFXIV. He tells me about Dawntrail and that he has an active FC that do lots of different content together, and a house! All the fun memories I have of the game come rushing back. So I excitedly hop on my phone, buy Dawntrail and 30 day subscription, and reactivate my extra retainers. Fun times ahead, right?

Nope, I go to transfer my character to his homeworld and its "congested". I ask my friend, and there's no queues even in prime time, but still "congested". So I suck it up, and play through the MSQ, hit lvl100...and I'm lonely again in FFXIV and can't bring myself to log in anymore. To rub salt in the wound, Wuk Lamat reminds me every 5 minutes how important friendship is, while I sit here lonely in the game.

I can't expect my new friend to abandon his FC, but I can't join their fun. I can't expect every one of them to datacenter travel to meet me over at Dynamis every time they want to run a trial or hunt maps or some other group content. I can't hang out in front of the FC house and socialize, because I can't travel there.

So I just don't play, and I guess I'll quit again instead of having a great time. And that's sad. And my sadness turns to anger and resentment when I realize I am being robbed of fun because the "congested" status is artificial to prop up Dynamis, a ghost-town data-center that seemingly no one wants to play on unless they are forced there.

[LilyPendragon]

Yeah, that's rough and you have my sympathy. Have you suggested they make an alt on your server to play with you occasionally, and looking into fc recruitment to make some new friends? It's not ideal, but it might work for you

[LilimoLimomo]

Sounds like a genuine bummer.

I'm not sure if this helps, but I remember that in the past when we wanted to make new characters on servers that were "full" (or some synonym), it worked to wait for non-peak hours when there were less people playing. Not sure if character transfers work similarly, but if they do, it might work to wait a few weeks and then try to transfer in the middle of the night (server time) when most players will be sleeping.

Alternatively, there are always new friends to make. And I'll admit, making friends can be challenging, especially if you're looking for certain kinds of friends. But the more you try, the more likely you'll eventually find some folks who you enjoy playing with and talking to.

Anyway, I hope you're able to find a solution to your situation; good luck!

[TaleraRistain]

I know it's a bit of time but DC Travel should be opening again in 11 days. Then you can join your friends again.

Congested status isn't just to prop up Dynamis. We had serious problems in the past when servers and DCs got too full. I remember many Aether crashes back before Crystal was created and some of our servers got split off to there. So they have measures in place to control that now.

[1313]

just gotta wait for the restrictions to be lifted... shouldnt be long now. im kinda in the same boat, im bored and lonely and not enjoying this game at all because of the se unneeded restrictions. i was forced to make my character on dynamis due to all of na being locked down when i made it, now im forced to play on dynamis and cant leave , let alone transfer to the server where my group of friends play.

[Turbocoupe]

From what I can tell from comparing queues, my homeworld is more congested than the one I want to move to. Seems illogical to keep me locked here.

[TheOperator3712]

Sounds like a genuine bummer.

I'm not sure if this helps, but I remember that in the past when we wanted to make new characters on servers that were "full" (or some synonym), it worked to wait for non-peak hours when there were less people playing. Not sure if character transfers work similarly, but if they do, it might work to wait a few weeks and then try to transfer in the middle of the night (server time) when most players will be sleeping.

Alternatively, there are always new friends to make. And I'll admit, making friends can be challenging, especially if you're looking for certain kinds of friends. But the more you try, the more likely you'll eventually find some folks who you enjoy playing with and talking to.

Anyway, I hope you're able to find a solution to your situation; good luck!

When a server's status is set to congested, it blocks all new character creation and server transfers until the congested status is lifted. Patch 7.0 made all non-Dynamis NA worlds congested in order to populate the Dynamis Datacenter. Congested status likely won't be lifted until 7.1 at the earliest, and some worlds are unlikely to go back to normal status even then.

[Turbocoupe]

When a server's status is set to congested, it blocks all new character creation and server transfers until the congested status is lifted. Patch 7.0 made all non-Dynamis NA worlds congested in order to populate the Dynamis Datacenter. Congested status likely won't be lifted until 7.1 at the earliest, and some worlds are unlikely to go back to normal status even then.

Well that sucks, because they're not getting another penny from me until I can play with my friend. Its the entire point of playing a damn MMORPG.

[Kaurhz]

Honestly, they went far, far too hard on being restrictive with peoples' movements.

DC travel should've been fully re-enabled with 7.01, and it's a shame they don't review changes to world status enough.

[angienessyo]

They're supposed to be re-opening world travel to all servers soon.