[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[VoidsentStatus]

Either you try to move to Aether, or you will take forver to fill your party on PF.

This is the funny part to me. Seeing so many people talking as if they're going to quit content or abandon 4-10 years of playing the game before using Party Finder on their home data center is just a little /too/ wild for me to believe. I don't take half of these comments seriously because they sound exagerrated as hell and spoiled/selfish. Yoshi P smacking people in the back of the head and saying "raid where you are" is the funniest interaction I've seen in a second and shows the maturity difference between JP and NA/EU since they're adjusting better.

[rednebula]

This is the funny part to me. Seeing so many people talking as if they're going to quit content or abandon 4-10 years of playing the game before using Party Finder on their home data center is just a little /too/ wild for me to believe. I don't take half of these comments seriously because they sound exagerrated as hell and spoiled/selfish. Yoshi P smacking people in the back of the head and saying "raid where you are" is the funniest interaction I've seen in a second and shows the maturity difference between JP and NA/EU since they're adjusting better.

I would certainly love to use PF on my home DC! Too bad the parties never fill. Friends and I sat for two hours last week waiting for an EX2 farm party to fill, and it literally never did. Sat at 5/8, for two hours. So please, tell me, how am I supposed to use PF on my home DC when PFs never fill?

[VoidsentStatus]

I think you'd find the same trends no matter what platform.

The trend isn't the argument. It's about reaching congestion status and how long that lasts. A declining pattern is not indicative of how long that pattern lasts or how long it takes to show. You also wouldn't take <4-10% of the population that's skewed toward finishing content faster and quitting the game for more reasons for indicating the speed of decline for the other 90-96+% of the game. That would be the same as going toward one of the most heavily leaning political party small states and using them as a sample size for the entire U.S. opinion. You are going to be off by a good margin because you didn't take an actual random population and your sample size is small as hell. You hit 2 red flags for how statistics work. Another good example would be play time falling off after camouflage's and attachments for guns are unlocked in Call of Duty. While that trend may be accurate of falling off, how fast you fall off is going to depend on whether you use hacks to get kills faster, what game modes you play, whether you play the objective, whether you play with parties being various factors that will put players weeks, potentially months apart from when they reach the same point.

[VoidsentStatus]

I would certainly love to use PF on my home DC! Too bad the parties never fill. Friends and I sat for two hours last week waiting for an EX2 farm party to fill, and it literally never did. Sat at 5/8, for two hours. So please, tell me, how am I supposed to use PF on my home DC when PFs never fill?

You were running extreme on a savage content release window where most of the people who qualify for an extreme farm would be running savage.

[KazukoHimura]

Had a crash to desktop around 4 PM. Can't get back in to Hyperion now.

ETA: I got into the queue. Queue of 26. It then threw error 3088 again.

Queue of 26 congested my foot. Fix this.

[VoidsentStatus]

I would certainly love to use PF on my home DC! Too bad the parties never fill. Friends and I sat for two hours last week waiting for an EX2 farm party to fill, and it literally never did. Sat at 5/8, for two hours. So please, tell me, how am I supposed to use PF on my home DC when PFs never fill?

Soon as I sign in today.

[KazukoHimura]

Update: Tried again with a queue of 38 and got 3088. I then went to handle some adulting and came back, couldn't get into queue a couple more times, then got in-game with 0 queue.

Okay. Maybe I'd be willing to give these new regulations a try if they actually MADE SENSE. But I smell that something went wrong with their implementation. Though I still stand by getting rid of them.

[Aadrian1234]

I begrudgingly accepted that I'd have to wait out the first month of dawntrail so I can play with my friends again, but now it's past that and these "limits" might as well just be the old restrictions but worse and no timescale set for how long they'll last. I'm already planning to transfer to aether once I'm able to, but not even being able to DC travel too for the foreseeable future is honestly ruining my time a bit. What's even the point of DC travel being advertised as a way to visit friends if it's going to be so heavily limited?

This system is awful and just ends up screwing everyone else over.

[SophiaDL]

Soon as I sign in today.

1 : This is a sunday afternoon/evening
2 : the numbers of PF's for content is laughable compared to other DC's, this aint the "flex" you think it is.

[VoidsentStatus]

I begrudgingly accepted that I'd have to wait out the first month of dawntrail so I can play with my friends again

Let me get this straight. The entire first month of Dawntrail you didn't play with your friends even when Dynamis travel was unrestricted? When Seraph was literally Balmung 2.0 to the point it got congested before worlds on main data centers. That sounds like a situation where you're the odd person out and staying on Aether with their friends was more important than you. Dynamis had hunt trains, fate farming, and queue's and your friends chose not to meet you there. That's some Dynamis-phobia.