[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[PassinLay]

Feel free to gaslight each other and fantasize about what you think people have said. It's honestly weird to see and it honestly isn't a good look at all.

Edit:
Literally no one said anything to defend that decision but you're already putting words into people's mouths because you want to mald about it. Kinda yikes.

Mald about it ? I am more than happy Balmung is open, now I dont have to deal with congestion anymore, I have absolutely nothing to be mad about.

Mmmhmm. I will never know, because I muted them "all". Well. The 2 or 3 of them, because they clearly are a minority.

For the best really

[VoidsentStatus]

I am more than happy Balmung is open, now I dont have to deal with congestion anymore

If you're a visitor from another world. DC Travel restrictions are exactly the same even after the change. Balmung will be the test on if a normal visitor cap can even be reached since it's going to be grey'd out for travel still.

[xanatosdc]

The same defenders of this whole "congestion" from this thread will tell you that it clearly makes sense and that only people going on aether are the big bad guys, but going to balm is okay

Mmmhmm. I will never know, because I muted them "all". Well. The 2 or 3 of them, because they clearly are a minority.

[CuteBucket]

lmao I knew I'd still get blamed for trying to raid on a Thursday by that VoidsentStatus person. It's clear to me now looking through some of the backlog that they just hate Aether players for some reason. Onto my ignore list they go.

Heaven forbid I like going to big events and raiding with people across different DCs. This change sucks and is killing my enthusiasm for the game. DC travel allowed me to meet with and befriend so many more people that I never would have been able to play with before, and now we're separated again. It's bad. It sucks. And I will keep telling Square Enix this.

[VoidsentStatus]

lmao I knew I'd still get blamed for trying to raid on a Thursday .

Like I told someone else, don't come to another Data Center with the same expectations as your old one, especially comparing it to Aether when all of queue expectations from there are never going to happen again. And I hate Aether players because they come in expecting every data center to have the same queue's as them when they were a superserver status that should've never existed. One of the other people that complained about Dynamis went over to Primal to have the same queue's if not worse than they did on Dynamis and blamed people sneaking over to Aether for it. Every single one that has came to the thread has sounded entitled to hell and oblivious to the state of the other data centers, but love to trash Dynamis specifically despite it literally being less than a year old of having a functional community for most content compared to other worlds that have 5-10 years of history.

Superservers got killed off in WoW years ago and now they're getting killed off here. When it comes to superservers, the developers don't care about you or your friends and the devs from WoW at least told players to their face that their friendships don't matter in a forum post directly. Square is telling you indirectly that your opinion isn't important compared to other servers and you still haven't gotten the message.

[KazukoHimura]

lmao I knew I'd still get blamed for trying to raid on a Thursday by that VoidsentStatus person.

Or me for wanting to talk to a friend whose easiest way to be reached is via /t, and is is on Primal. I'm gonna skippa skippa that person and their opinions.

[PassinLay]

lmao I knew I'd still get blamed for trying to raid on a Thursday by that VoidsentStatus person. It's clear to me now looking through some of the backlog that they just hate Aether players for some reason. Onto my ignore list they go.

Heaven forbid I like going to big events and raiding with people across different DCs. This change sucks and is killing my enthusiasm for the game. DC travel allowed me to meet with and befriend so many more people that I never would have been able to play with before, and now we're separated again. It's bad. It sucks. And I will keep telling Square Enix this.

How dare you want to play with your friends and raid with people from other DC's

Arent you ashamed of yourself ? Muh congestion !

You will not talk to your friends, start thinking about the fake congestion and not about your friends, this isnt an MMO !

[Cherrizini]

I think these data center changes are fine to an extent, but it also made raiding on other data centers a bit of a pain. For example, I got to Perfect Alexander in TEA right before Dawntrail release day and couldn’t get a clear on time, so I waited to continue after I finished MSQ.

It is actually impossible to fill a whole c41 group in any other data center. TEA groups would take a while to fill in aether, but they filled nonetheless. But in Primal, Crystal or Dynamis? It is impossible. You’ll at max get 3 people. Everyone going to aether to PF was useful for people like me who cannot find statics due weird job schedules. I accept the changes but I won’t lie and say they’re the best for everyone.

[VoidsentStatus]

It is actually impossible to fill a whole c41 group in any other data center. TEA groups would take a while to fill in aether, but they filled nonetheless. But in Primal, Crystal or Dynamis? It is impossible. You’ll at max get 3 people.

Now this I could tell was legit feedback because I remember a youtube video of a guy who tried to rush a TEA clear in a week and was spending like 3-6 hours waiting in queue on Aether but eventually got in on certain days. However, in said video there is one point of hope. Some discord/group of people that get people clears after they reach a certain prog point - 17:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctLjmUnIPNY. I checked the site and they're currently doing M1-M4 but if they eventually free up later or have something in the discord for Ult's specifically, it might be useful in the future assuming you can take a work day off since everything is pre-planned and you have a much higher chance to clear that day as opposed to needing several days if you were taking off work just to do PF. Other than that, I can only think of a few things:

1) camping Aether. sign in at 4AM and afk your character on console or pc since they removed the 30min timer with the last patch
2) gil tossing (which isn't a thing for 99% of players to be able to spend 50-100mil on buying pre-cleared raiders to prog with them)
3) waiting for them add the new jobs to old ultimates which would cause a spike in ultimate content in PF
4) you can try contacting @KihraOfTemerity (log site person) and seeing if they might add a PF like recruitment to Tomestone. It was a site that allowed people to advertise their prog points so I'd assume there might be a way for people to individually find/make a linkshell with people at the same prog point as them. Have informal statics that could be made temporarily.

Other than that, I am unfortunately out of ideas T_T

[VoidsentStatus]

Update: Balmung is at visitor cap even when classified for Standard visitor capacity instead of Reduced. Since traveler cap is the same regardless of individual classification, only difference is creating an alt works, and pre-parking is easier. Traveling in prime time still impossible.