[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[glitteringcosmos]

This is still absolute garbage. I moved my character from Aether to Dynamis for a multitude of reasons, but helping the congestion was one of them. I feel like I've been penalized for doing so, as getting on to Aether at any point other than from aroun 6am to 9am EST is impossible. I was up at 4am EST last night and STILL could not get in. Making the congestion restrictive of creating characters and transferring them there I can understand, but the heavy restrictions on just visiting is gutting a lot of social aspects of the game for the players who want to transfer out but still play with their friends on Aether. And as Marche said above, what's going to happen is the minute a world on Aether opens up for transfers, they're going to have a massive influx of players flocking to move their characters to Aether to get around all the restrictions and exacerbate the problem. The "solution" they came up with is making things worse.

[NOODS]

Cloud servers and cross-DC queueing can't come any faster. I've never had my character on Aether but my entire raid static is on Aether and it's frustrating for everyone to have to transfer to Dynamis just to get our raid group together when I'm the only one there.

Beyond that, joining Hunt Trains or PvP events as well as other social/content related events becomes more and more difficult as I often can't move around much. And it's not just isolated to Aether either, If there's a PvPrimal event happening, Primal often ends up fully congested and I can't participate. I understand the why's but the results have ended up counter-intuitive post expansion release.

[CuteBucket]

It is just WILD and BAFFLING to me that during a content drought in an MMO where the only "new" things to do for veterans is Savage raids and/or community ran events and getting together with friends, then take such drastic steps to prevent us from doing ANY of those things without significant hassle.

I guess if your entire raid and friend group has always been on Aether and nowhere else, you're good. But mine isn't, and it sucks.

[VerdeLuck]

Came back for the free game time for returners and the queues are about as bad as I remembered on Dynamis, 15+ minutes for some roulettes as healer, 30-40 minutes on alliance raids. The kicker is now I can't really travel to other DCs to fix that anymore so I have to just eat the long queue times.
Real nice system Square, not a fan of this at all.

[Ardeth]

Clearly, it's time for mega servers.

[Arzalis]

Megaservers would destroy this game's communities overnight. Been there, done that.

Also, they'd have to actually put effort to addressing the housing system to ever consider megaservers. So it's never going to happen. They clearly don't care enough to change that.

[glitteringcosmos]

9:50 am est on a tuesday. this is unacceptable.

image of the queue blacked out in case the forums won't load the picture: https://imgur.com/a/s5yNmYd

[CuteBucket]

And as an Aether player, I can tell you, there are not nearly so many people logged in at that time to warrant this at all. At this point, even though I'm an Aether player, I have been parked mostly on Primal or Dynamis just to try and meet up with my friends to try and do anything together. I decorated my house for Halloween and then realized that half my friends I play with can't even come by to see it.

Nothing makes me want to just say "f*** it" and leave this game more than little moments like that, where I realize the things I used to do just casually with friends can't happen anymore. It's so disheartening.

[xanatosdc]

Once more joining in here to say that this is ridiculous... almost 4 months post release and I still can't properly play with friends.