[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[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.

[wirebones]

I'm extremely disappointed that these concerns have not been addressed in the slightest this far out while Aether remains consistently locked out at any decent gaming hour. I'm now heavily considering homeworld transferring my character off Dynamis, forfeiting the house I have there, in order to freely play the game with my friends as I'd like to be able to and, well, adding more to Aether's home world congestion issues as a result.

[KitaiAryik]

I'm extremely disappointed that these concerns have not been addressed in the slightest this far out while Aether remains consistently locked out at any decent gaming hour. I'm now heavily considering homeworld transferring my character off Dynamis, forfeiting the house I have there, in order to freely play the game with my friends as I'd like to be able to and, well, adding more to Aether's home world congestion issues as a result.

its what i had to wind up doing myself. now that at least some servers are opened up to xfer/character creation, i just pulled the trigger on moving my character off of primal to aether as many of my friends are on the DC as it stands and hated having to make each and every one to go out of their way to meet up with me with me being one of the only ones NOT on Aether at the time. so i just decided to say "fk it" and pay the $18 xfer fee to make it easier for those i play with. as it stands, you couldn't blast me off this DC for anything since i don't want to be locked out of it again for MONTHS at at time or for lord knows how long the next time it gets completely locked down again. its sad that doing this only adds to the problem but i feel i don't have much of a choice outside just to xfer or risk being locked out of my grp/friend circle again and have to make them go out their way to DC travel when it would just be easier for me to go to them. but alas idk what would be a solution but whatever this is just is NOT it.

[BeanBunny]

I am extremely disappointed that this is still an issue at all. It has been months since Dawntrail, Square Enix could easily give us travel back, they simply won't. Absolutely horrible.