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  1. #1
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    kajv95's Avatar
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    Lilia Atlantia
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    Phoenix
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    Gladiator Lv 40
    Europe here, it's a disaster. Met some great people right before Dawntrail on the other datacenter, formed a little group split down the middle between Chaos and Light. Then they announce we're basically not gonna be able to do content together for the first 4 weeks. Okay, fine. Now they "lift the lock" but made it so much worse. My group planned maps with the release and it seriously took an HOUR to try and figure out where we'd go because changing datacenters to restock maps just isn't going to cut it. And this was on Omega, a world that's not even known to be filled to the brim. A world that had a "queue" of 23 while it was kicking the others out over being "congested."

    Now we're not sure if we're going to be able to properly do synced content together at all, because adding upwards of an hour just to be able to coexist is genuinely awful.

    This is probably their solution to try and keep PF localized within datacenters again to hopefully avoid actually having to solve the "universal PF" problem and sure, it's working to an extent, but this is coming YEARS too late, when many people have formed cross-dc connections. I've been incredibly happy with the expansion, story aside, but this is genuinely giving me cause to unsubscribe because at this point I might as well go play a game with them that *does* let me play with them.
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    MrMordio's Avatar
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    Gridania
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    Face Melt
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    Excalibur
    Main Class
    Black Mage Lv 100
    A member of my raid group got disconnected during raid and couldn't log back in without first taking 20 minutes to return to his home world, and then he wasn't able to travel back to Primal from Aether.

    We all had to transfer to Dynamis. We've been in the queue for 30 minutes and still can't get back to raid.
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    Z'weta Belmont
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    Malboro
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    Rogue Lv 100
    this change entirely screws up everyone of the game, to people who want to raid, all the way to people that just want to hang with a friend. I really hope they revert this change soon
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    Konyn Rogovi
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    Adamantoise
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    Paladin Lv 100
    There was very little thought put into the actual repercussions of this change. All it does is punish players that decided to make friends or join raid groups outside of their data center. Punishing players for using a game feature to play and interact with more people in an MMO just doesn't make sense. All it does is segment the community into their own little server ecosystems, making it so data center travel might as well just not exist at all.

    I was lucky enough to log in early enough to travel to my static's data center for raid tonight and now I am actually terrified to log out as there is a good chance that I will not be able to log back into their data center for our next raid night.

    I data center travel every single raid night in order to raid so I do not see a problem with Aether being the server everyone piles onto to use party finder, especially if the alternative is to seriously inconvenience every single cross data center group in the game whether they be hard core raid groups or casual social groups.

    If you want to actually fix people piling into aether for party finder then the solution is cross data center party finder, and if you are worried about people having to data center travel for duty roulette then consider incentivizing people with some extra experience or tomes for using duty roulette on their home world.

    This change is the most anti-fun change this game has introduced for both the casuals and hard core players and does nothing but make me frustrated to try and play with my friends.
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  5. #5
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    VoidsentStatus's Avatar
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    Voidsent Veneer
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    Halicarnassus
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    Paladin Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Rogovi View Post
    the solution is cross data center party finder, and if you are worried about people having to data center travel for duty roulette then consider incentivizing people with some extra experience or tomes for using duty roulette on their home world.
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    They already mentioned both of these and why they won't work/aren't preferred.
    The first is 2-3+ years of resources assuming it's even possible. And they have to weigh all of that time against something that's more beneficial to the game.
    The second just shifts the data center that everyone loads into including overwhelming the native people's login queue timers.

    They literally talked about shutting off cross data center on stream as one of the solutions if things came down to it because at the end of the day, breaking up statics and venues is better having 75% of your region with no access to current raid tier PF content. If people actually handled the responsibility of data center travel properly and just visited other worlds instead of staying there all day and doing everything from there content wise, we wouldn't have been in this situation. Aether had 3-5k logins at Dawntrail with cross data center disabled. Their servers would've been massacred if it was triple by travel. They need to shut off people grouping up and have them spread out for hardware stability and overall content health.
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    Last edited by VoidsentStatus; 07-31-2024 at 10:48 AM.

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    Silaryn Malaguld
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    Goblin
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    Dancer Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by VoidsentStatus View Post
    They literally talked about shutting off cross data center on stream as one of the solutions if things came down to it because at the end of the day, breaking up statics and venues is better having 75% of your region with no access to current raid tier PF content. If people actually handled the responsibility of data center travel properly and just visited other worlds instead of staying there all day and doing everything from there content wise, we wouldn't have been in this situation. Aether had 3-5k logins at Dawntrail with cross data center disabled. Their servers would've been massacred if it was triple by travel. They need to shut off people grouping up and have them spread out for hardware stability and overall content health.
    This is an insane take. Imagine thinking that splitting up friend groups is a good thing.
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    RezPls's Avatar
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    Rez Pls
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    Gilgamesh
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    Arcanist Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Silaryn View Post
    This is an insane take. Imagine thinking that splitting up friend groups is a good thing.
    Something tells me they don't have many friends ig or irl.
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  8. #8
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    VoidsentStatus's Avatar
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    Voidsent Veneer
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    Halicarnassus
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    Paladin Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Silaryn View Post
    This is an insane take. Imagine thinking that splitting up friend groups is a good thing.
    This is the real world. I'm sorry you don't like the idea of changes being implemented that have downsides. At the end of the day, the game existed for what? 7 years without data center travel. Majority of people aren't unsubbing even if they did take it out completely. Data center travel is a privelege, not a right.
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  9. #9
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    kinslayer-'s Avatar
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    Raze K-
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    Diabolos
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    Monk Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Silaryn View Post
    This is an insane take. Imagine thinking that splitting up friend groups is a good thing.
    Dont bother with him, i'm sure he's the Dynamis bozja bot farmer, he literally gets mad when some people travel to Dynamis to farm in there.
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  10. #10
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    Taysa Braddock
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    Maduin
    Main Class
    Astrologian Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by VoidsentStatus View Post
    If people actually handled the responsibility of data center travel properly and just visited other worlds instead of staying there all day and doing everything from there content wise, we wouldn't have been in this situation. Aether had 3-5k logins at Dawntrail with cross data center disabled. Their servers would've been massacred if it was triple by travel. They need to shut off people grouping up and have them spread out for hardware stability and overall content health.
    Kind of rich for you to be talking about "handling responsibility" and propriety when you admit in this very thread that you've exploited loopholes to achieve multi-plot ownership.

    Maybe sit this one out.
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