Quote Originally Posted by Qorani View Post
One of my static members put it like "This is SE trying to kill DC travel without actually killing DC travel".
Correct. This was discussed in an interview question to Yoshi P at Media Tour before Dawntrail release.

25:00 - Of course I am aware of problem, and I think the fastest solution would be to close off dc travel. Of course FF14 is not a game solely for raiders, but I really would like to get rid of any disparity between all DC's and worlds. It's not like I haven't thought about a perfect party finder, we have been discussing it, but from a technical perspective, it is almost close to impossible to achieve. If we full force on development, it would take about 3 years. But of course, you can't wait for 3 years. The development team has came out with various ideas. One idea was to promote 1 DC for raids via higher rewards etc., on the other hand, there could also be rewards tied to low party finder count data centers. But if we do that, it would place greater stress on a given DC and would promote DC Travel, so I'm not sure what we should be doing. So, even if we implement that, all the other players will have problems logging in. So, my head hurts around this problem.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PIxQPKBf0E&t=1410s