Quote Originally Posted by Qorani View Post
This isn't supposed to be a good thing lol. Players are suffering (I know the exact wording there sounds hyperbolic, but a better way to phrase it isn't coming to me at the moment) because of the devs not knowing how to handle their game and implementing features that blatantly degrade what was an acceptable player experience before now.

Please don't defend this. They took a feature that people liked - aside from some pf issues - and made it tentatively unusable at best.
Quote Originally Posted by Qorani View Post
I'll agree that the Crystal and Primal pf issues are somewhat valid, but you can't attribute the Dynamis issues to DC travel.
This is a very disingenuous downplaying of the issue. There was nothing "acceptable" about what DC travel (or more accurately how players chose to use DC travel) was doing to the game. You're painting it like "oh well maybe a couple people here and there had a teensie weensie issue with PF sometimes" when in reality PF was completely destroyed on every DC that wasn't the anointed DC of that region, which is to say nothing of the countless negative ripple effects into other areas of the game.

Not only that, but the troubles of Dynamis were 100% because of DC travel. The census has consistently shown that Dynamis has plenty of players to do content with, they just never stayed on their home DC because of DC travel. It was a self fulfilling prophecy, just like the Aether raiding thing.

Was this the best way to go about solving the issue? That's debatable, but something had to give eventually. I'm sure the devs were acutely aware of the shitstorm this change would cause but decided the change was less damage to the community than what the community was doing to itself with its DC dogpile shenanigans. It's unfortunate that people are having trouble playing with their friends now but as others have said, if the community used DC travel responsibly no action would have been needed. It's not the first time everyone has had to deal with a tool being removed or restricted due to some people misusing it and it certainly won't be the last.