[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[ObscuraFi]

just because it's easier for SE?

1) You missed the Endwalker lodestone for congestion back then:
"In preparation for these predictions, we optimized our servers ahead of the expansion’s launch in order to increase login caps."
"Although we were unable to add new Worlds, we have implemented every other measure that was possible, such as replacing the matching servers with higher-performance machines, optimizing processes, increasing processing speeds, and raising the number of simultaneous logins."

2) "“Error 2002” may be displayed when selecting a character in the Character Selection menu. This error is displayed when the login server is experiencing high amounts of traffic or when the number of characters waiting in a login queue for a logical Data Center exceeds 17,000. This is a measure to prevent the server from crashing due to extreme traffic overloads."

Easier for SE is akin to the server not crashing and kicking off everyone including the people already logged in.

[Zarkovitch]

Please fix your implementations SE. Yesterday it ruined my day of raiding and this game really need a budget for servers only. Idc how but better do something than nothing.

[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.

[glassflower]

as a roleplayer on crystal, i've found that the community is being fragmented by the recent changes to data center travel. true, we mostly congregate on crystal, but friends who aren't able to make a character on the data center are unable to come visit for events, and even world visit is a bit strained as getting into balmung is very hit or miss -- and a lot of long running events are typically held there. i would like for there to be less barriers so the community can thrive with ease.

[Morpho_Buduga]

Probably just repeating what a lot of others have said, but the continued Aether lock is nothing helpful. There's a venue I went to every week (pre-DT) on Aether, but they haven't even been able to open since Dawntrail because most of their staff and regular attendees are on other data centers. I can't even visit the few friends who are based there because the itty bitty window where Aether is open for travelers is -surprise surprise- at a time where I'm sleeping.

Having a large chunk of the socializing part of an MMO be completely inaccessible to anyone who isn't lucky enough to already have a character on one of the biggest DCs is absolutely nonsensical, and just defeats the purpose of the having congested worlds locked anyway -no one who manages to get to Aether is going to leave now for fear they can't get back, so the perceived high volume of players is never going to go down.

The intent of these measures makes sense in theory, but in practice -using an automated system especially- is an utter failure.

[KitaiAryik]

Probably just repeating what a lot of others have said, but the continued Aether lock is nothing helpful. There's a venue I went to every week (pre-DT) on Aether, but they haven't even been able to open since Dawntrail because most of their staff and regular attendees are on other data centers. I can't even visit the few friends who are based there because the itty bitty window where Aether is open for travelers is -surprise surprise- at a time where I'm sleeping.

Having a large chunk of the socializing part of an MMO be completely inaccessible to anyone who isn't lucky enough to already have a character on one of the biggest DCs is absolutely nonsensical, and just defeats the purpose of the having congested worlds locked anyway -no one who manages to get to Aether is going to leave now for fear they can't get back, so the perceived high volume of players is never going to go down.

The intent of these measures makes sense in theory, but in practice -using an automated system especially- is an utter failure.

i don't think the dev team realizes the damage they are doing with this by insisting on keeping these restrictions in place. especially on a single region. not everyone raids. and the harder the raid, the smaller the pool is. its the casual players that keep an MMO alive. your RPers, the venues, gposers etc that keep this game going and the bills paid for this game. the longer this goes on, the more of a problem this becomes for the social scene. yes you can take breaks, but guess what, ppl are going to take breaks and just not come back specially if something like this is allowed to continue for much longer. hell we are already in a lull as it is. it's going to get to a point where this is gonna get to a head, in some way or another and needs to be addressed soooner rather than later.

[CidHeiral]

i don't think the dev team realizes the damage they are doing with this by insisting on keeping these restrictions in place.

It took them years to address the dogpiling Aether issue with this change. Clearly they weighed the options and decided the damage these restrictions would do is less damage to the game than leaving most DCs a dead husk. Look around, outside of this thread which isn't even that active, there's hardly any complaint across the community. It seems most people are enjoying their servers being alive again. The game did just fine before DC travel ever existed, it's not going anywhere over these travel restrictions.