[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[MushyMush]

Made an account just to post here about this issue and how awful it is.

Why would you open data centers, let us make new friends across all of them only to then RIP AWAY my ability to hang out with them anymore? So much for having people over to my in-game house I worked tirelessly to decorate, they'll never see it now. This change is so blind to the social aspect of this game it is astounding to me how far they missed the mark with it.

I have lost a LOT of faith in the team over this one and I've been here since day 1 of ARR.... beyond dissapointed with this. I will simply never be able to visit my friends ever again on certain servers now because they are ALWAYS congested as a result of being a social hub.

[KamiyaJace]

I came here in solidarity with a lot of the folks who are upset by this. I have been a long proponent of data center and world travel systems and the way congestion issues are being addressed, DESPITE the fact that SE's main concerns about congestion during launch have not been realized feels incredibly rushed and dismissive of the community.

[Orion_Llewelyn]

I'm also very displeased with this system. Since the creation of cross-DC travel, I've made many friends between the data centers and have also since moved to Dynamis with the promise that I would still be able to see all my friends on my original DC because of the data center travel system, but now I can no longer do that and I'm effectively stranded. This is a poor solution to the congestion issue and makes the data center travel system practically non-functional on NA! Square Enix, PLEASE reconsider this!

[badamlyanhua]

Hello, I'm not necessarily affected by the travel changes, but rather the labeling of Seraph as a Congested server. Congested in what form? Our login queues are back to under 40 players. My recent content queue times have been horrendous, meaning all the people padding our population have left. We even lost our Road to 90 buff, to which I've asked a few people how they felt as somewhat recent transfers intending to be extremely casual players, and this change ruined their drive to continue logging in. Whoever made the decision to label Seraph congested has clearly never been to Dynamis, where queues die off after midnight CT and Frontlines didn't even pop for many people even after over 300 hours of queuing (yes we've intentionally waited). We have to move over to other DCs just to even see alliance content most evenings.

I know none of us who already lost Road to 90 will get it back, but at least return Seraph to what it used to be. It might be the biggest Dynamis world, but people hardly last more than a month on this server before moving of to Aether for their queue times.

[Ayalu]

FF14 is a very social game and this update disrupt that massivly.
And this will lead to a lot of bad will.

And its clear to see Obscura/Voidsend that this is the case.
Also its not as if BU3 is famous for there well thought out decisions.
Look at the Forum you have plenty of proof of that.

[ObscuraFi]

Hello, I'm not necessarily affected by the travel changes, but rather the labeling of Seraph as a Congested server. Congested in what form? Our login queues are back to under 40 players.

Congestion is tied to how many players regularly sign in to a world overall and not how many sign in at the same time for the login queue. That's why the original consequence of being labeled as Congested stopping people from home world transferring there or creating new characters. There's open world congestion and then login congestion that are separate. I do agree that they should've kept the Road to 90 buff though.

FF14 is a very social game and this update disrupt that massivly.
And this will lead to a lot of bad will.

And its clear to see Obscura/Voidsend that this is the case.
Also its not as if BU3 is famous for there well thought out decisions.
Look at the Forum you have plenty of proof of that.

100%. I'm just pragmatic in saying that the good will they gained will be higher than the bad will which is what Yoshi P has to consider. How many people you piss off isn't important, it's how many people you make happy. For every venue that lost their staff and guests, there's venues that will gain that traffic. For every static broken up, those are members able for other groups to pick up. For every friend group that got broken up, new one's will be created locally. And the pissed off people definitely don't mean anything if they aren't unsubbing. There's bad will with pvp rewards, viera/hrothgar headware, glam restrictions with gender and inventory management, materia lack of creativity, job balance and content design, support system with GM's, MSQ being botched writing wise, they have a lot bigger concerns toward a discussion of "this game is bad, don't come here" than people not able to go to a different server freely. A new player doesn't care about that, and when they find out it's for their benefit leveling up, they're definitely not going to care. DC Travel just isn't a selling point, but having empty markets and worlds is.

[MascheRano]

They really chose to implement the most half-baked method. Just remove any travel restrictions for Dynamis, at least, it is ridiculous that a DC that already struggles with filling its queues should have the same travel limits that the other DCs do.

[NanaWiloh]

Last time I saying this. Characters who reside on a dc/world should get log in priortiy over visitors. The restrictions are too limit visitors so more players who reside on said dc/server can log on. Its not hard understand and selfish to think you have a right to log into a dc/server you dont reside on.

[Ayalu]

Last time I saying this. Characters who reside on a dc/world should get log in priortiy over visitors. The restrictions are too limit visitors so more players who reside on said dc/server can log on. Its not hard understand and selfish to think you have a right to log into a dc/server you dont reside on.

All fine and dandy but that hardly excuses the horrendous implementation.
Tell one a expected time of one minut but then you experience dozends crashes and times of an hour+.

Even when one assumes the entire idea is great and should be implemented the execution is very bad.

[Crerant]

It's honestly astounding how little thought or testing must've gone into these changes. Should be reverted but I'm not confident they will be.