i was looking forward to attending events on NA DCs again but i guess i'm shit out of luck until they do something about this. i can't see my friends on aether or crystal and they can't come to my world on primal either. raid progs have been canceled because they couldn't get in nor out of dynamis with all other worlds being barred outright. far too many horror stories about people getting booted while waiting and then being unable to log in for hours on end. seriously if this isn't changed soon i'm likely going to drop my NA character entirely. aether is practically perma congested so i can't transfer back there, and there's no point in having an alt if i can't play with my american friends anywhere but materia anyway.

what was the intention behind this change anyway? on NA it looks like it ruined everyone's cross DC statics and only further helped screw over the population of dynamis. if they were trying to fix the "damage" done to each data center's respective party finder then they probably should have taken action sooner and not this long after implementing the system. just seems like a stupid decision they didn't think about at all. like, what's the appeal of transfering to a less populated data center now when you can't even keep playing with the friends that stay behind? why get new friends into the game if they can only create a character on new worlds and you can't even play together? and then there's the cool new feature of even if you manage to travel there's no guarantee you can log in at all. any amount of queue will already bar you from entering entirely when you're a traveler so good luck during peak hours. i just don't see how this positively affects anything.