[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[Jordonzo]

I get stuck in inifinite dc travel loop, and when I do make it it's after like 3+ hours. I gave up and parked my character on my static's world thinking hey I'll just log in early before our raid and not log off. NOPE. I am still literally blocked from logging in cause "not my homeworld". I am actually getting replaced now in the static because they want to raid, and I LITERALLY cannot join them to play because every NA dc is ALWAYS congested. For reference I have played with this group with zero issues for almost 5 tiers now. But because Square implemented this change it's impossible to play with friends now. Like what were they even thinking... DC travel worked before, it was just slow. Now with the changes DC travel is "OPEN" but because NA is always congested there is zero way to play together. I'm just blocked from playing with my friends ever looks like. Might as well just quit the game at this point if square refuses to acknowledge they effed up.

[LuxLC]

I'm just confused. Why would they make a feature work fine for two years straight just to break it for no reason? I've made a lot of friends on Crystal and I can't even hang out over there unless I log in way too early and spend way too long there. That's all this change encourages people to 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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[NanaWiloh]

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.

Issues with it can be fixed. Allowing people to cancel the travel and return home is a start.

[RaenBlackMage]

How often do people *actually* have trouble logging into their home world? It's happened to me a scant handful of times, but it was never notable enough to affect my experience. This, on the other hand, very much is so far. I know I'm not looking for new friend groups or raid partners... I'm just giving both up. I had very close friends, and it was only fun because it was with them. I don't think I'm alone in that regard. I don't think this is going to make a lot of people happy. 99% of the posts defending this are Obscura/Voidsent. The others are mostly Nana. I don't really see a lot of people chiming in on how much they love this change.

[ObscuraFi]

How often do people *actually* have trouble logging into their home world? It's happened to me a scant handful of times, but it was never notable enough to affect my experience. This, on the other hand, very much is so far. I know I'm not looking for new friend groups or raid partners... I'm just giving both up. I had very close friends, and it was only fun because it was with them. I don't think I'm alone in that regard. I don't think this is going to make a lot of people happy. 99% of the posts defending this are Obscura/Voidsent. The others are mostly Nana. I don't really see a lot of people chiming in on how much they love this change.

1) If you're happy about the change, what's the primary reason for even signing into the forums to begin with
2)How many complaints have you seen from Dynamis people other than 1 Seraph person that's primarily mad at the buff being gone/congestion status and not the travel restrictions in general
3) Can I have your stuff since you're quitting the game? I'm assuming with no friends and no pve content, you're going to let your membership drop.

[RaenBlackMage]

Yeah, there is no way in the nine hells I would give you my stuff. I am clinging to the hope that these changes will be reverted, or altered so that I CAN see my friends again.