[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[CidHeiral]

This isn't supposed to be a good thing lol. Players are suffering (I know the exact wording there sounds hyperbolic, but a better way to phrase it isn't coming to me at the moment) because of the devs not knowing how to handle their game and implementing features that blatantly degrade what was an acceptable player experience before now.

Please don't defend this. They took a feature that people liked - aside from some pf issues - and made it tentatively unusable at best.

I'll agree that the Crystal and Primal pf issues are somewhat valid, but you can't attribute the Dynamis issues to DC travel.

This is a very disingenuous downplaying of the issue. There was nothing "acceptable" about what DC travel (or more accurately how players chose to use DC travel) was doing to the game. You're painting it like "oh well maybe a couple people here and there had a teensie weensie issue with PF sometimes" when in reality PF was completely destroyed on every DC that wasn't the anointed DC of that region, which is to say nothing of the countless negative ripple effects into other areas of the game.

Not only that, but the troubles of Dynamis were 100% because of DC travel. The census has consistently shown that Dynamis has plenty of players to do content with, they just never stayed on their home DC because of DC travel. It was a self fulfilling prophecy, just like the Aether raiding thing.

Was this the best way to go about solving the issue? That's debatable, but something had to give eventually. I'm sure the devs were acutely aware of the shitstorm this change would cause but decided the change was less damage to the community than what the community was doing to itself with its DC dogpile shenanigans. It's unfortunate that people are having trouble playing with their friends now but as others have said, if the community used DC travel responsibly no action would have been needed. It's not the first time everyone has had to deal with a tool being removed or restricted due to some people misusing it and it certainly won't be the last.

[Fluffysilverkitsune]

I moved to Dynamis to get housing because i knew I could travel to other DC to run content. Dynamis is so dead a vast majority of the content I want to run cant be because there are no players (spent 1h 46m in que). This change now prevents me from playing content, visiting friends, try new venues, or even play the base game in a reasonable amount of time. They need to change this back, I even made a forum account just to post this. By far the worst thing they have done since i started playing

[horsebirds]

Thank you to everyone who's posted their feedback about the DC travel changes! It's been nice to see what so many other people have to say, and I'm hopeful that this can continue being a place where people share their thoughts about this topic.

I will say that with the way the system works now, not only is it hard to bring my Dynamis character anywhere other than Dynamis, I've also become pretty wary of bringing my Aether character anywhere other than Aether. I don't want him to be unable to return home. After launch, even when the servers were more restricted, that wasn't much of a problem for me. I knew the system was stable enough that I could bring him to Dynamis when Aether was crowded and then send him home without any trouble when things calmed down. And I did so, several times! Without that assurance I feel as though it's smarter to stay put. I feel less inclined to "spread out" than I did before. Now that I've seen others worried about the same, my suspicion is that Dynamis is going to see less visitors after this change, not more.

[RaenBlackMage]

This is exactly the case for me as well. I was using Dynamis as the way around cross-DC travel being mostly shut off during DT launch. It was how I kept seeing my cross-DC friends. Now, even that is gone, or might as well be.

[KazukoHimura]

Now that I've seen others worried about the same, my suspicion is that Dynamis is going to see less visitors after this change, not more.

I'm honestly in full agreement-and this is from a Dynamis native that would like to see the server flourish. The main reason I was on other servers was for RP purposes. If all my RP friends were on Dynamis I'd have stayed there. But alas, they are not. They're on Crystal and Primal, about 90/10 proportion wise. That's literally all I want is to go see them and RP in their player houses. Please Sqenix, let us do just that.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

I actually liked the idea of Dyanmis being a "borderlands" where all the servers could visit at the start of DT; so much that I made a alt and leveled him up to set up a meeting place on Kraken.

[KazukoHimura]

I actually liked the idea of Dyanmis being a "borderlands" where all the servers could visit at the start of DT; so much that I made a alt and leveled him up to set up a meeting place on Kraken.

While that is a good point and can work for some situation, it can't work for others, say, certain RP groups that use player housing as their settings.

[localareanetwork]

its really bad..

[LotteYanson]

At this point, why not just disolve the other DCs and combine them all into one?
Fixing the problem doesn't seem to be of any priority for them at all.
Otherwise they wouldn't have reopened DC Travel without a solution, lol

Ignorance or incompetence – the lines are blurred

[KazukoHimura]

I did some searching on Reddit to see if I could champion more people to our cause of either reverting or tweaking the current system, and found a workaround for those stuck in a DC travel loop:

Users jaqenhqar and drunkengranite both had input, and combined, the method is below:

Go to <insert drive letter here>:\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn
Open "FFXIV.cfg", and (if you have it) "FFXIV.cfg.old".
Delete the line "dkt_session_id" at the very bottom of the <Network Settings> section.

While it doesn't solve the root of the problem, it should hopefully mitigate the more pressing issue of the matter. As much as my roleplay loving self really wants to be able to visit my friends on Crystal and Primal (More Primal in this case), I think being locked out of a character due to technical reasons on the server's end is more of a pressing issue.