[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[VoidsentStatus]

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

That's the last thing I'm waiting for. If they were going to allow cross data center for anyone unrestricted or only introduce cross region duty finder for anyone, it should be OCE imo. I know people that have been there since release. Having bronze for top 100 in ranked pvp, no casual pvp queue for 80%+ of the season, no roulettes other than primetime, no help in eureka/bozja, and needing to basically get bailed out by the JP community of old friends coming to help out is mad tragic. Like they actually need to be attached to JP because their population isn't enough even if they forced everyone to stay there unlike Dynamis.

[Verrin]

The attempt to "promote the even distribution of players across our Worlds" does not work. With dynamis as the only datacenter letting people on, it forces every static with members on more then one DC to travel to dynamis to raid with no guarantee of even being able to return to home data centers after. This results in most of the raiding population of the game lost on a foreign DC with no access to FC buffs, retainers, or a stocked market board. All you have done is moved the congestion issue from one location to another & made the whole thing worse in the process.

[Roseinda]

Trying to get back to Aether after traveling to Crystal for raid, which was already a nightmare due to the server with most of the group being closed (which almost stranded some people on other dcs due to not being able to get into most of the servers), has been a nightmare of getting kicked from the game and trying again. I'm trying to get home to Jenova from my raid so I can do stuff with my FC and check my retainers, but I am completely unable to due to being stuck in the DC travel loop. This entire thing seems to have been extremely poorly thought out, especially for the time they decided to implement the update. You managed to break a perfectly fine DC travel system

[Dreamers]

I am also stuck in the everlooping hell that is data center travel, is there any way to fix this? It crashes after awhile when it doesn't cannot then starts all over.

[VoidsentStatus]

I am also stuck in the everlooping hell that is data center travel, is there any way to fix this? It crashes after awhile when it doesn't cannot then starts all over.

Have to wait until the login queue isn't congested anymore as far as I'm aware. I got stuck in the cycle returning to Hali from Materia. I was able to sign into my alt accounts and check and the login queue was like 40-50 people and my ETA was showing as unknown still on the account I was trying to move a character. I didn't get in until a little after one of my characters only saw a 20 login queue instead. So I'm assuming you're just waiting for a big enough dip in login queue to be able to get in.

[Taytay]

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

You're abusing the spirit of the rules, which funnily enough is exactly what you're in here telling people who "abuse" DC travel.

So which is it? Everyone sucks, including you, or you're a liar? Take your pick.

[CidHeiral]

Exactly! Someone's picking a fight with me on this exact point and I won't entertain it.

Oh please, someone disagreeing with you isn't "picking a fight." Get over yourself.

Right now people aren't able to log in.

I can empathize with that being frustrating in the short term. If it's due to a bug, I'm sure it'll get fixed. If it's due to congestion, it'll work itself out. Not a big deal in the long run, and the long run is much healthier with this change than without. Unsurprisingly a lot of people can't see past their own nose when it comes to what's best for everyone in the game and not just themselves and their buddies.

[VoidsentStatus]

You're abusing the spirit of the rules, which funnily enough is exactly what you're in here telling people who "abuse" DC travel.

So which is it? Everyone sucks, including you, or you're a liar? Take your pick.

And who set the definition for the spirit of the rule? The issue is that I count as 24 customers instead of 1 to Square Enix. When you start dropping $300 a month on memberships and you've paid $1000+ in license keys, then you'll have the same rights as me. I paid for the ability to own half a ward in several places, you didn't.

[VoidsentStatus]

Oh please, someone disagreeing with you isn't "picking a fight." Get over yourself.


If it's due to a bug, I'm sure it'll get fixed. If it's due to congestion, it'll work itself out.

JP Twitter just made a post 30min ago. https://x.com/FF_XIV_JP/status/1818498557399466211

Google Translate:

About data center travel congestion
Since patch 7.05, the number of users using Data Center Travel has increased significantly, and we apologize for the inconvenience caused by the congestion.
If the estimated travel time displayed when selecting the DC/world to move to is "Expected to take a long time due to congestion", the wait time for data center travel may exceed 1 hour because it is extremely crowded, or Errors may occur due to timeouts.
Even if the client closes due to an error while waiting for your turn after applying for a move, the data center travel process itself is proceeding without any problems, so we apologize for the inconvenience, but please wait for a while. Please restart the client after that.
Please note that if the character selection screen is displayed at the data center before the move, it means that the application has not been completed, so please apply again.

[Jeeqbit]

People were using DC travel to get to S ranks on other data centers. This will likely destroy that. Is this really necessary? It didn't feel like the servers were struggling. Was the hardware really struggling to cope with it...?