[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[VoidsentStatus]

none of this is the flex you think it is, man. "business partners" dude its an mmo. why are you making "investments" in virtual housing and doing corny entrepreneur stuff. take it easy.

Apparently you missed where Square Enix wants people to do these types of things.


Leveling crafters is an investment.
Purchasing housing for community events is an investment.
Submarines are an investment.
Materia for PvE are an investment.
People taking orders for raid groups that need day 1 gear is an entrepreneurship.
Artists advertising the game and creating content for players is entrepreneurship.
Half of the modding scene is entrepreneurship.
People selling levekits is entrepreurship.
People giving out financial loans at an interest rate on JP is entrepreneurship.
People renting out housing to venues is entrepreneurship.
People getting paid in gil to run content is entrepreneurship.
Courtesan work is entrepreneurship.
The PvP community that hosted it's own PvP tournaments is full of people who invested billions of gil to provoke excitement and recruit people into the world.
Gambling communities are entrepreneurship.

Do you afk in Limsa? Because you probably can't stand anywhere for more than 10-60min before you see someone that's making an investment or doing entrepreneurship in shout chat or PF.

[kinslayer-]

Imagine investing the time and money to maintain 24 accounts, hoarding 50 plots unused, and still having no friends to play with.

he thinks he owns Dynamis
He thinks he's an anime character
I'm kinda glad not many people have interacted with this individual

But yea, Square should fix the Dta center travel asap

[LianaThorne]

Imagine having nothing better to do than complain on the forums about empty houses that weren't bid on for 6-12+ months. Listen, I'm sorry you're too broke to understand how investments work. I'm sorry you're too broke to understand how much high quality decorating costs. I'm sorry you think someone that has venue connections, staff, rp partners, and business partners on Primal, Aether, Crystal, Dynamis, Chaos, Materia, and Elemental, that has given out over a bil to the community, has no friends. I'm sorry if I made you reflect on your contribution to any community and that made you feel some type of way. As a voidsent, I apologize for entering the realm of your brain, and sucking out all the aether there so I can live rent free.

Peace and love but you should probably take a step back and a deep breath. Coming from someone else with also a sizable amount of gil, it's nothing that actually matters. You can literally buy gilcap for $500 or less if you wanted to

I also wouldn't parade the fact that you own multiple wards worth of houses here as I wouldn't put it past some on here to come and harass you for it in game since it's pretty much a taboo topic.

If people are physically unable to access a game they're paying for (outside of scheduled maintenances), it's an issue. Point blank period.

[Verrin]

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



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.

"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."
The irony of this statement speaks for itself.

[Serilyn]

Would love for them to fix this, fortunately I haven't run into it yet but I fear I may sooner or later since with the raised difficulty I have to DC travel to OCE so I can do solo battles without massive latency on my US server alts.

Along with that, they really should open up OCE so we can travel to other DCs/regions if we want. Keep other regions apart if you want sure, but let OCE travel. The main reason I haven't created an alt there despite living in the region is because I fear running into a msq roadblock with something like crystal tower or trials that don't have trust versions yet.

[dododogu]

Apparently you missed where Square Enix wants people to do these types of things.


Leveling crafters is an investment.
Purchasing housing for community events is an investment.
Submarines are an investment.
Materia for PvE are an investment.
People taking orders for raid groups that need day 1 gear is an entrepreneurship.
Artists advertising the game and creating content for players is entrepreneurship.
Half of the modding scene is entrepreneurship.
People selling levekits is entrepreurship.
People giving out financial loans at an interest rate on JP is entrepreneurship.
People renting out housing to venues is entrepreneurship.
People getting paid in gil to run content is entrepreneurship.
Courtesan work is entrepreneurship.
The PvP community that hosted it's own PvP tournaments is full of people who invested billions of gil to provoke excitement and recruit people into the world.
Gambling communities are entrepreneurship.

Do you afk in Limsa? Because you probably can't stand anywhere for more than 10-60min before you see someone that's making an investment or doing entrepreneurship in shout chat or PF.

yoshi p would send me to one of the seven hells if i said what i wanted to say.

youre very strange

edit: wait are you the bozja guy

[ObscuraFi]

,

(reached daily limit on main forum acc)
Apparently I am an anime character considering I dropped two Madara meteors on Aether and Crystal's bozja market, tanking the prices to 30% of normal market, controlling 80-90% of the sale history for over a month which caused your friends to lose their minds after griefing me. Called the whole leaf village of Diabolos for help to the point your friends started stalking me in and out instance, on social media, tried to outfarm me and failed and quit, making retainer names about me, spamming shout chat with hate messages, spamming my tweets with replies, and giving me free livestreams to report to GM's while you scream about me botting for years and getting nothing done to my accounts. I literally live rent free in your people's head and ya'll still want to talk years later only able to say "anime dweeb" as a comeback.

[GTK0HLK]

"People Hated Them, Cause they Weren't Wrong" and told them the exact thing they didn't want to hear.

Tale old as time.

I knew this was coming a mile away.
As someone who really just completely rooted themselves in Crystal. (Despite having "friends" all over. though most in EU-DCs- despite a number of them being from NA. They all went there.)

It was pretty obvious what was gonna happen.

WE'VE KNOW WHAT ISSUES THE GAME HAS BEEN HAVING.
YOU'VE SEEN THE THREADS ABOUT DYNAMIS AND MATERIA.
YOU'VE SEEN THEIR PAINS AND LOSS OF GETTING FARMED AND WORK TAKEN FROM "TOURISTS".

This was clearly coming. and while I carry both Empathy and Sympathy for the situation.

You're reactions only draw relish from others. More so when you inadvertently take a combative stance, just cause they aren't 100% saying exactly the same thing as you.

(This literally applies to almost every single thread and topic on this damn general forum. Unless people actually converse small differences, options, or ways to improve. which is saddingly rare, cause it's easy to just knee-jerk into emotion.)

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Rectifying the issues with community, and growing them in the wide open dcs clearly come first. as they are the players who suffered the most.

As someone who wants RegionWide PF/DF. I'll happily wait til it becomes a reality(as I want PVP to grow. and become more fun. Without having to resort to FOMO/Haves-Havenot. And of course Alts Friendly/AccWide Options.)

But such things will wait, til they find a solution that doesn't gimp the rest of the games resources. (you wouldn't want that now, Would You? the devs having to choose how thin the resources should be spread again?)

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While they need to resolve things. (For me, congestion being one. as I'd like to make my Rothgal alt soon.)

This is all a necessary, yet painful lesson and data.

We Knew since the DCs were locked, that the best option was to exist in the same homeworld and DC if such options are on the table for SE.

And this just proved those who prepared or had Alts ready. (You can say Noone can handle all the prep on an alt. but others have.)

We can only find options that satisfy the need to grow Dynamis/Materia. or find ourselves partially ignored while spilling our guts.

Edit:
ps
just like Others and Void has said.
No one is entitled to anything.
This topic can easily spread out into various subjects.

Just like Housing, If you went to these wide open dcs for housing. expecting not to live there and be part of the community there. that's on you, you've made your bed.

At least enrich the community.

If you have problem that you can't get a house where you're friends exist. same issue for everyone. Keep pushing the housing topic. (I personally wish, all plots are largest. with only the building size being the different thing. with varying outdoor furnishings limits)

If it's for Hunts, you aren't entitled to them. it's just a benefit of the situation, and congestion.

Just like if others take advantage of the fact they can do Questionable things. That's on SE.

Least they try.

[EBYRWA]

I want to voice my support for a removal of the recent DC travel changes. Others have already outlined well the issues: numerous errors, inaccurate information pertaining to actual travel time, and the inability to reliably join up with friends (for whatever activity; hunts, raids, rp). None of this works as a way of improving the overall gameplay experience compared to what it was prior. If this feature isn't going to be designed to work in a manner similar to pre-Dawntrail (in terms of availability and speed), just take it out. It is painfully obvious this change is designed to be punitive to encourage more DC-centric activity.

Any reply from VoidsentStatus will be ignored entirely. I've read your opinion multiple times already.

[floofykyn]

Very unhappy with this change. I had a cross dc static from the start of dc travel to the end of endwalker. Even outside of raiding we met up for maps, mount farming, weddings (or after parties for the cross dc people), community events. We met up on dynamis for maps during dawntrails first month!

Some of us were hoping to get some day one prog in...... and then half of us got stuck in the crash loop for hours. Maybe if I'd been told of this change before I could've had my alt geared up and ready to raid and not my main, but honestly that's not fun.

I realize that dc travel causes issues and server strain but this was poorly thought out and not communicated at all for a game I pay a monthly subscription for...