[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[CuteBucket]

This change has been a net negative for sure I don't dare transfer to other worlds because I don't want to be caught unable to return to my home world for whatever reason, so I've just been playing less overall... and it sucks being unable to attend art parties and the like because they're on a different DC.

You will always have priority to return to your home server, so I wouldn't worry about getting stranded. But that said, I feel you on trying to visit friends at events and such. I have a friend trying to put together a small art party for some Discord server members, but we're trying to figure out where to host it. They wanted to hold it at their house on one of the Aether servers, but those are closed most of the time, so only other Aether players could come, and that's no fun at all. But if we host it somewhere else, then they don't get to use the housing space they spent all that time and gil decorating in the hopes of inviting people over!

So much of the casual social fun I've had in this game is inviting friends over to each other's houses to just talk and hang out just like we would IRL, but from anywhere in the world. But having some servers constantly closed to DC travel means we can't do simple little acts of friendship like that with each other anymore, and it makes me sad.

[wirebones]

I have two characters I primarily play on, with my main on Aether and my alt on Dynamis, however I raid on both. My alt's static is all Aether based, but so are most of my friends! So I have to prioritize keeping my alt on Aether, which means I can't risk transferring to other DCs in the event I can't get back to Aether. It's awful, and I've missed out on a lot of social and roleplay events I wanted to attend because of this. I made this alt character for roleplay and my favorite venue is Aether based as well, but I miss out on events on Dynamis or Crystal because if I leave Aether I won't be able to return in a timely fashion when I need to.

I can't even do Island Sanctuary content on my alt, because I'd have to go back to my home world for that, and unfortunately I'd rather prioritize being able to stay on Aether. A lot of other people I know also feel like they're trapped on Aether with how easily the DC gets congested, so they don't dare move their non-Aether characters off of it, which essentially... clogs the DC further since we can't come and go as we please like we used to. It's frustrating. I'd genuinely just move my alt to Aether at this point next opening if it weren't for the fact that I own character housing.

[DolphinsFan]

I have two characters I primarily play on, with my main on Aether and my alt on Dynamis, however I raid on both. My alt's static is all Aether based, but so are most of my friends! So I have to prioritize keeping my alt on Aether, which means I can't risk transferring to other DCs in the event I can't get back to Aether. It's awful, and I've missed out on a lot of social and roleplay events I wanted to attend because of this. I made this alt character for roleplay and my favorite venue is Aether based as well, but I miss out on events on Dynamis or Crystal because if I leave Aether I won't be able to return in a timely fashion when I need to.

I can't even do Island Sanctuary content on my alt, because I'd have to go back to my home world for that, and unfortunately I'd rather prioritize being able to stay on Aether. A lot of other people I know also feel like they're trapped on Aether with how easily the DC gets congested, so they don't dare move their non-Aether characters off of it, which essentially... clogs the DC further since we can't come and go as we please like we used to. It's frustrating. I'd genuinely just move my alt to Aether at this point next opening if it weren't for the fact that I own character housing.

I'm in the exact same situation here. Ironically, for all the supporters of the change who think segregating the playerbase is a good thing, it's made me avoid ever returning to dynamis and contributing to the queues there. Its frustrating not having access to retainers, and when friends go to other servers, but its way more frustrating being hit with a grey wall when I need to get to Aether.