[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[TakeshiNakazato]

I'm in primal. I want to play and hang out with friends in Aether.
They can't come to primal because of this. I can't go to aether because of this. And dynamis puts us in limbo. So I cannot play with my friends on aether.

In conclusion, this change blows huge chunks. Absolutely the worst thing they've done in years, and the damage it's doing to statics and other various forms of player interaction is considerable. How do they keep doing this thing where they roll stuff out without any thought about the consequences? This is two steps back from what we had before. It's not sustainable at all.

[1313]

So everything's to remain buggered up and unplayable is it? >.>

[Moxiesan]

One of the largest problems is the forced PERMA lock on servers until the next patch cycle. On adamantoise, we have under 40 queues to get in (which is just a throttled login - it's not actually congested) around the clock. I can't make an alt on these servers. People have a hard time visiting. Recruit a friends can't make characters on the server either. This has been going on for 2 months. I can't even ask my friends to come back to the game since they can't even play with me. I can't even defend SE at all in this.

If you have to mark a server as congested for server stability... FINE, but make it dynamic. You cannot force ppl to make characters on tiny servers. I suppose you can, but most people end up leaving the game because of this.

Fix it.

[kajv95]

Doing this as a way to grow Dynamis is even dumber because it's just attempting to fix a mistake with another mistake. As much as the community hated it when it happened with the need for Crystal, they had to launch new worlds in all the DCs and kidnap a few populated world from the other DCs towards Dynamis. Instant population. They even had the DC Travel excuse ready and it likely would've been less of a hassle than a thousand players playing on Dynamis total realising that there is nothing going on there because there was no real incentive to make characters there from the start.

The fix is not to "lock DC travel" - just means you're now being disincentivized to go there in the same way you'll be disincentivized to go to Materia; you're literally going to a gaol DC.

From a business perspective, we know FFXIV is the thing that's mostly keeping SE funded. It absolutely is a realistic from a business perspective to improve the infrastructure of your game to make it so that more people are having a good time playing it.

[Niamh_]

As someone who plays on Chaos having to travel to Light for PF sucks. Having to travel and having the experience suck due to artificial limitations on the system is just making the experience of being on whatever the hive-mind has deemed the non-raiding data center even worse than it was. Either disable DC travel entirely (unlikely now people have cross-DC statics and friend groups) or make the system work as it did before. Chaos has been active enough for M1S to M3S this week but people already seem to be congregating on light for M4S.

[Oizen]

I like how someone on the dev team saw everything working fine and just said "what if we just made it worse?"

Guessing its the same designer that made the Portrait system

[AngelicDeath]

Still can't even play with this issue or clear things until they fix and lift this up ever

[Neon231]

"Visiting players can't login right now due to congestion."

*tries again*

"Players in queue: 33"

Bro, please change this shit. This game is not nearly as congested as it was when End Walker released. Stop the cap.

[SophiaDL]

"Visiting players can't login right now due to congestion."

*tries again*

"Players in queue: 33"

Bro, please change this shit. This game is not nearly as congested as it was when End Walker released. Stop the cap.

At this point they are just pretending that the game is more alive than it is, and it's quite pathetic to say the least.

Like dont take me wrong, the game aint anywhere near dying, but this aint EW anymore, this whole congestion stuff needs to stop. This is the same vibe as "this world is full" before DT when you logged in and had a queue, which was making it seem like the game server was actually full, while in reality it was the login server that was full and the only reason was because they logged people in batches, in reality it wasnt even congested.

The amount of bad decisions this expansion really is astounding, and the actual begging of SE to try and populate a dead DC that no one wants to go to except for housing is honestly just as pathetic, people dont want to go there, leave people alone, you created Dynamis, its your own fault, not the players. Stop trying to force players into a dead DC they dont want to be in.

[VoidsentStatus]

"Visiting players can't login right now due to congestion."

*tries again*

"Players in queue: 33"

Bro, please change this shit. This game is not nearly as congested as it was when End Walker released. Stop the cap.

How congested it was at Endwalker is irrelevant because the caps on visitors and travelers on each world was different back then. It's not a cap, it's a vague statement. It should read "Visiting players can't login right now due to visitor congestion." Which means you were waiting for a different visitor to leave the world before you could be let in. Whether that's 5 seconds later or 5 minutes later is rng. How many non-visitor people are signed in is irrelevant to that problem.