[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[kajv95]

And you conveniently left out what you did until in the meantime. (according to google) Light was added on April 2, 2019 compared to July 2022 when Data Center Travel was released. What did you do during that 3 year time period?

Continue chatting with them on discord while hoping we'd be able to play again. And we were allowed to again in 2022 just like you said.
What's more, I eventually found out some people I know from outside Final Fantasy also played, and played on Light. So that unlocked too! Between old friends on Light, Chaos, some new friends we picked up on Light along the way thanks to DC travel, we were able to make a static that perfectly suits us. A static that I wasn't allowed to play with today because they shadowdropped new restrictions instead of "removing the restrictions" like they stated.
Heck, when they added being able to go to OCE, I was stoked because now I was even allowed to play with my pals in the american region without resorting to my Halicarnassus alt!
Now I can barely even play with them with either OCE OR Halicarnassus alt! Amazing.

Anyway, what's your point? Why does it matter "what I did during that 3 year period". What matters is what I, and so many other players, did with a feature that's been a part of the game for 2 years now. It's far, FAR too late to be walking this back in an attempt to not have to work on a solution to a perceived problem with the system.

[Taytay]

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.

[VoidsentStatus]

Anyway, what's your point? Why does it matter "what I did during that 3 year period".

Because the point is that, as hard of a pill as it may be to swallow, your friendships don't matter. The vast majority of people are not going to uninstall the game just because they can't play with a friend. You'd faster make an alt than quit the game. Most people would rather make a new static, than quit the game. So from a business perspective, when they are seeing community goals and content health not met, mass segregation happening in multiple regions, they have hardware being overly stressed, investing millions to obtain new infrastructure to help relieve it, and the community says "f*** your investments, I want to play where I want with my friends", what did you think the response would be? You're going to bark on the forums and social media about losing your friends and static, the same way that people had barked and complained /for years/ about the things that just got fixed finally because they cut off travel. Your friendships is not at the top of their priority list. So speaking on behalf of the suits at SE, you can take that "kindly piss off" and look in the mirror. Because everyone that dealt with a dead party finder and roulette, dead venues, dead open world for years, is finally happy. At the end of the day, they were more important than you.

[Sorjal]

Tried datacenter travel so I could bring our bits some gear I crafted on my main (my wife's main is in another dc). First it hung for at least 5 minutes at the character screen with just the rotating indicator in the bottom right corner to indicate it was doing anything. Eventually it gave a message with an estimated time of 1 minute. About 8 minutes later I get the 2021 error of world data could not be obtained. Now I restart the game choose Data Center and select my main's home DC and instead of giving me the character selection window to return my bit to my home DC, it goes to the DC travel log in screen with a timer. After about 7-9 minutes, this errors. Usually with the 2021 error. That's been going on for about 50 minutes now. The time before last it gave me a message about the transfer failing, but I can't get to a character selection screen anywhere. I've tried selecting the bit's home DC. I tried the DC I was trying to travel to, nothing. Just endless loop of it auto joining the transfer queue and then failing with no way to cancel it, etc.

Whatever code you added to vary things based on ever changing dc population is putting bits into this limbo of who knows where. My guess is that it's allowing dc travel and then at some point during the queued travel the world switches to not allow and the transfer is prevented from completing. But that's a complete guess. What I would like though is the ability to get to a character screen anywhere, even just to create a new bit somewhere to kill time.

[VoidsentStatus]

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.

I wouldn't consider having 24 service accounts a loophole. Good assumption though.

[kinslayer-]

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.

[VoidsentStatus]

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.

*points to the Crystal Bozja discord (CEM) announcement telling people from Crystal not to enter other data centers and grief players and take over farm*

[RezRanger]

It's been 3 hours. This is unacceptable.

[Timopthy]

Imagine even being able to have the option to DC travel. Welcome to Oceania.

[TophGear]

I just spent an hour trying to go see friends on Crystal again in our usual hangout spot at their free company house, got disconnected from the queue seven times with 505 [Unable to successfully complete Data Center Travel request. If your character is not listed in the target Data Center, please wait a few moments before trying again.] and 2021 [World data could not be obtained. Please try logging in later.] errors which fully closed the game. I was then shoved right back in every time I loaded the game back up with no option to swap to any alts, no matter which Data Center I tried to access. When I could finally see my character on the log in screen on Mateus, I was told I couldn't log in as a visitor because the world was full. I had the same experience trying to return to my home world (Famfrit): an hour straight with seven or eight disconnect errors before I could even see the log in screen.

When DC travel was opened today, I expected some delays, but this is unacceptable. At least cancel the travel process if the target world is too full/congested, despite being a Standard world.

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