[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[Eskat]

This is honestly just so much worse than if they never opened up DC travel in the first place. When I started, I asked my friends which server they played on. They said Cactuar, so I joined on Cactuar. I made new friends on various worlds across Aether, many of whom chose to leave Aether for the housing on other servers. And that was fine, I'd visit them, they'd visit me, we'd all have a good time with it. But now we can't, the promise of a feature of the game was taken from us, and we don't even have the option to take back our own choices because of this. People who moved to Dynamis are just kinda stuck there now, with their weak in game economy, long queues, the lot of it. They moved on the promise of at least still being able to visit their friends, and now that's been taken from them, in exchange for nothing.

[VerdeLuck]

More than shutting down servers for travel, SE needs to do what they did with adventurer in need but for DCs.

Set up a system where the DC with the lowest population at any given time has a boost to gil and xp for all content you do through the Duty Finder while not in a premade group. Encourage people to travel to dynamis to fill out their queues for better rewards.
Time and time again it's been shown that punishing unwanted behavior in players doesn't work, the only thing that does work is rewarding the behavior you do want, which is evening out the DCs populations on any given day so they stop crowding a single DC.

[shiftweave]

I play this game for ultimate raiding, I actively dislike content like Bozja, there is nothing here for me except the ultimates, which I play as often as I can. In EW this was approaching 5-6 times a week. Now in DT it's 1-2 if I'm lucky, and usually I am not. I cannot simply park my character on Aether forever for a few reasons e.g. statics. I feel like I got punked at character creation and have been paying the price ever since. As soon as Aether opens up I will leave my fc and permanently world transfer my character, but there's little to no reason for me to play this game once I'm done with FRU because it's just frustrating.

Is Square even aware of how much the ultimate scene relies on Aether? Why is there no fix for this DC travel issue months after the expac released? This game had the reputation for not having any bugs, yet here is a horrible outstanding issue that wouldn't be acceptable for even one day just sitting around for actual months.

There is no fix for this issue other than cross-dc pf or opening up travel. You can't undo years of raiding culture just by crippling essential features and hoping it works out. There are roleplayers on Aether now and there are raiders on Crystal, and these groups aren't going to be able to fix this issue alone.

[glitteringcosmos]

Very disappointed the Live Letter today made no mention of fixing this major, glaring issue. It's quite upsetting.

[Menriq]

Very disappointed the Live Letter today made no mention of fixing this major, glaring issue. It's quite upsetting.

They kinda did, but it was in the PvP section. In case you skipped that, they are forcing NA to go to Primal for any ranked PvP. Yoshi-P indicated this is not their preferred solution, and they are currently working on the cross DC PF changes, but they have to do it for all content, so it's more involved, but they would provide more info as they got closer.

[glitteringcosmos]

They kinda did, but it was in the PvP section. In case you skipped that, they are forcing NA to go to Primal for any ranked PvP. Yoshi-P indicated this is not their preferred solution, and they are currently working on the cross DC PF changes, but they have to do it for all content, so it's more involved, but they would provide more info as they got closer.

That is even worse of an idea. What are they thinking??? Holy crap.

Also, that does nothing for the fact that they've reduced capacity for Travelers and Wanderers on congested worlds that aren't really that full. They just appear to be because of the travel restrictions. There aren't even 200 players in ALL of the Shroud on Adamantoise right now. They need to increase capacity for off-world players again, there is NO reason to be restricting it this long after expac launch.

[strigiformes]

This section from the 7.1 patch notes does not fill me with much confidence that we'll see the restrictions rolled back.



Great! We'll know why a server is unavailable and not be able to do a damn thing about it. Since this thread's inception, I've found my interest in the game wane more and more. If it weren't for housing auto-demolition, I would have taken an extended break in my subscription by now.

[xanatosdc]

So now ppl can only do ranked matches on one DC. Which they most likely then can't get to when it's "congested", shutting them out of ranked pvp? Please, somebody make it make sense.

[floofykyn]

It's been months, still upset by this tbqh square

[Marche100]

A bunch of servers on Aether are open for new characters/character transfers now, and I have exceedingly little faith that they'll roll back these changes (or if they do, it'll be far too late, as is tradition for Square Enix), so fine. They win. I'll pay the "you were an idiot for transferring to Dynamis" tax so I can stop feeling like a second-class citizen in the game I pay $15 a month for. I encourage others to do the same if you have the means and don't have anything tying you down to your data center, because at this point, I don't really see them doing anything about this unless the situation in other data centers gets so bad that it's impossible for even a company this dense to ignore.