[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[KitaiAryik]

Having no DC travel at all might have hurt Dynamis even more though, as the moment people realized they were stuck with long queue times no matter what (30+ minutes for everything when I started playing), a lot of them would have re-rolled right there. At least... I know I would have.

Unfortunately Dynamis did not have the benefit of an established playerbase from its creation like Crystal did, and it's been left struggling ever since, with the addition of Cuchulainn/Golem/Kraken/Rafflesia being almost mind-boggling at this point when Halicarnassus/Maduin/Marilith/Seraph were far from full. Well, okay they *claim* Seraph is "congested" but that just leaves me confused as to what quantifies congestion because there's no way in hell that Seraph is more populated than say... Balmung where I could pay transfer to it *right now* if I wanted to.

which makes this whole thing leaving a sour taste in our mouth. and it really does do Dynamis a disservice since its been dead on arrival with the DC travel since it went live around the time DC travel was implemented so it didn't stand a chance to be able to grow into something because of it. and this whole congestion/restriction fiasco isn't helping either for anyone, yet NA is the only region having any of this congestion labeling and restrictions on DCs. which is insane to me. yet EU/JP are already back to the way they were before DT launch as far as DC travel goes.

think someone on this thread mentioning that we might as well merge the servers of Dynamis with the other DCs (Aether/Primal/Crystal) at this point to be able to get a population on the new ones using the already existing data centers which i think would be a better off situation. least i hope it would, but im no dev here. just seems more logical to me to use what we already have and it would help in alleviating congestion so people would still populate the new severs while being in well established places. eventually, people will just run out of patience having to come up with workarounds on an existing problem that has been going on for a while now and having to wait for lord knows how long for the servers to open up so we can play with friends again or the dev team to come up with a permenant solution that's been created with all this

[KitaiAryik]

Beyond a server merge, a more extreme option would be Square-Enix "forcing" people to disperse-transfer in some way to balance out player numbers within their respective regions because its clear they have some kind of metric to determine congestion, and they're not going to back down on it until they see numbers *they* are satisfied with, not the playerbase, before they loosen back up travelling. As much as Square-Enix can be criticized for their server infrastructure and spaghetti code, the community also keeps exacerbating the issue or hell, created it in the *first* place. SE did not label Aether and Crystal *the* raiding and roleplay servers, the community did, and now that labeling has come back to bite everyone in the ass.

and its always those that wind up labeling servers like that wind up fking over those of us like myself that just want to play with friends rather than use servers for just raiding or roleplay at the end of the day. big reason why i'll be letting my sub time just run out in the meantime coming up next week til it loosens up since its been a nightmare just uprooting all my friends just to play with me each and every time. unsure of coming back until something is figured out.

[KitaiAryik]

Aye, totally understandable, and I don't fault anyone for wanting to take a break from the game due to the travel restrictions. Hell, when Dynamis got locked down and nobody could leave (but other people could still enter) I knew some folks that shelved the game until the lock down was lifted, because being trapped on Dynamis had the exact same effect of cutting people off from each other unless folks from Aether/Primal/Crystal were willing to come over to play the new content, and most did not..

and it could also cause another problem with this extended lockdown/restriction that SE put in place. in that once things do open up..people would wind up to xfering over to aether just to not be locked out by SE again for lord knows how long and not leave. both sides are a problem here in this situation where those like me that don't have a dog in the fight, that just want to play with others. at this rate, not even sure if i'll even be back to a game that restricts things to this degree since the full game isn't free and the community putting lables on DCs to the point of dogpiling on certain ones isn't helping either for those of us in the crossfire just wanting to play with friends. only time will tell what's going to happen either way.

[KitaiAryik]

It honestly makes me think that something *did* get strained during the whole ordeal, and now Square-Enix is stuck trying to bucket water out of one boat and into another, and the instant Aether gets re-opened for transfers the problem comes right back and will probably be worse than ever. If we knew *how* congestion is determined, maybe the playerbase would be willing to cooperate and spread out in some fashion, but as it stands, it just feels like we're fighting with SE over some invisible metric.

and this is the crux of the issue. unless SE is transparent with us on what is where, maybe even number wise on their end, this will go around and around until something gives, if it hasn't already. and with their current back end, which again, only SE has any real details on about and the growth in the game with ShB/EW days, is outside of improving whatever is on the back end but again that would take time to do. plus its not like the players have any concrete details about anything either way and a little info goes a long way with maybe helping helping alleviate all this, COPIUM tho it may be. and unless SE starts opening up details, which isn't likely at all on their side, the problem will continue on both ends