[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[Rabi-Ribi]

This is the worst change they've made since I've started playing this game 4 years ago. During the first week of savage I spent 2-6 hours a day spamming log in queues non-stop with almost no breaks, meanwhile my friends were showing me there was a queue of like 20 players on the world for aether. I would have much rather sit through a 3000 player queue that randomly kicks you out, because that only requires interaction when it does kick you out and it does get you through eventually. Me and my friends almost didn't clear savage week 1 entirely due to these changes and we were stressing out about trying to log in for raid. We've since had to move our reclear times to 3AM instead of 9PM because thats the only time we can comfortably log in and play together.

It's appeared to have improved since the initial launch but its current state is still unacceptable and its causing issues even for players native to their data centers. I'm on crystal and I can't even go to Balmung, not being able to go to Aether was bad but I'm not even safe on my own data center. Another friend of mine spent 3 hours trying to transfer onto balmung today too. I would much rather get randomly kicked out of the game or even have servers crash due to congestion than have these changes in place, with the current design I wouldn't be surprised if people were rule breaking to stay logged in defeating some of the purpose this update was meant to prevent. This is definitely a case of them trying to be too safe for their own good.

I also want to know why they decided the worst possible time to implement these changes, on the start of a savage tier is the MOST important time to be able to data center travel, if they're gonna test out experimental changes like this it should really be done on some casual patch like patch 7.1, That way they could at least see how awful it gets implemented and fix it before ultimate comes out, and most people would have done their BiS from savage reclears by then. It's been 2 weeks now with no response on this thread and I'm afraid that nothings going to be done and that its just gonna be ignored, and people will accept this change despite it being a daily inconvenience to thousands of players.

If anyone is trying to log in spam I highly recommend changing your title screen to ARR/HW/etc. as that will let you get to character select faster than the dawntrail title screen.