[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[PassinLay]

This. People seriously need to complain and stop being complacent over dumb decisive that block features of the game. We pay a sub. Game isn't free

Fully agree, but as I said in my last post, this community really accepts and tolerates anything from this company, while any other game community would have an uproar about it.

Really says a lot as well as to why this game isnt evolving at all towards anything, it's just the same stale recipe over and over and over again.

[xanatosdc]

I certainly won't stop complaining until they undo this dumb change

[Basteala]

I can understand why data center restrictions are in place to favor people native to the home world, to help keep queues down. I get that. I even respect it. It's definitely annoying in some cases, but I get what they're trying to do.

But *World* restrictions is really frustrating. Especially if you're trying to play the game with friends, hang out with their FC, etc but you couldn't do so on their server because it was congested. Now granted, this can happen on a DC level too, but I feel World movement is way more common, and locking it down can get really annoying, really fast.

[xanatosdc]

I'm hoping against hope that next week's maintenance will get rid of these changes...

[baraphomet]

Made my forum account just to agree that this change was awful and not even remotely thought out.

[accidias]

This change has been a net negative for sure I don't dare transfer to other worlds because I don't want to be caught unable to return to my home world for whatever reason, so I've just been playing less overall... and it sucks being unable to attend art parties and the like because they're on a different DC.

[Brynne]

This change has been a net negative for sure I don't dare transfer to other worlds because I don't want to be caught unable to return to my home world for whatever reason, so I've just been playing less overall... and it sucks being unable to attend art parties and the like because they're on a different DC.

I can at least alleviate this fear. I've been traveling constantly from Aether to other places and it's never been more than a 1 minute wait to get back. I don't think getting stuck is a big concern right now.

[CuteBucket]

This change has been a net negative for sure I don't dare transfer to other worlds because I don't want to be caught unable to return to my home world for whatever reason, so I've just been playing less overall... and it sucks being unable to attend art parties and the like because they're on a different DC.

You will always have priority to return to your home server, so I wouldn't worry about getting stranded. But that said, I feel you on trying to visit friends at events and such. I have a friend trying to put together a small art party for some Discord server members, but we're trying to figure out where to host it. They wanted to hold it at their house on one of the Aether servers, but those are closed most of the time, so only other Aether players could come, and that's no fun at all. But if we host it somewhere else, then they don't get to use the housing space they spent all that time and gil decorating in the hopes of inviting people over!

So much of the casual social fun I've had in this game is inviting friends over to each other's houses to just talk and hang out just like we would IRL, but from anywhere in the world. But having some servers constantly closed to DC travel means we can't do simple little acts of friendship like that with each other anymore, and it makes me sad.

[wirebones]

I have two characters I primarily play on, with my main on Aether and my alt on Dynamis, however I raid on both. My alt's static is all Aether based, but so are most of my friends! So I have to prioritize keeping my alt on Aether, which means I can't risk transferring to other DCs in the event I can't get back to Aether. It's awful, and I've missed out on a lot of social and roleplay events I wanted to attend because of this. I made this alt character for roleplay and my favorite venue is Aether based as well, but I miss out on events on Dynamis or Crystal because if I leave Aether I won't be able to return in a timely fashion when I need to.

I can't even do Island Sanctuary content on my alt, because I'd have to go back to my home world for that, and unfortunately I'd rather prioritize being able to stay on Aether. A lot of other people I know also feel like they're trapped on Aether with how easily the DC gets congested, so they don't dare move their non-Aether characters off of it, which essentially... clogs the DC further since we can't come and go as we please like we used to. It's frustrating. I'd genuinely just move my alt to Aether at this point next opening if it weren't for the fact that I own character housing.

[KitaiAryik]

also want to add my voice to this thread, meager though it may be. i had bought FF14 due to wanting to play with my friends and hearing good things about it ((and you guessed it, my friends have their characters on AETHER, of all places)). well, i go to create my own character only to find out I can't play with my friends, with the servers they play on locked off or restricted.

needless to say, not a happy camper. so im out $60 for a game I can't play where I bloody hell want. needless to say, if these servers don't open up by the time my sub runs out, won't be coming back to the game regardless of how good it may be. one thing i do not take kindly is being told i can't be where my friends are or being discouraged from doing so. it floors me to think after over 3 and A HALF MONTHS of so much of a single region being either closed off or so restricted for this goddamned long is so ridiculous for a game we PAY for every 2(ish) yrs on top of a MONTHLY SUB no less to not be able to play where we want. and your average joe like myself plays with friends and making ppl jump through hoops just to play with others is a huge turnoff in my book.

so, alas unless these servers unlock by the time my sub runs out, i will not be back til it does if i ever will. wanted to add my 2 cents for what its worth though it may not amount to much