[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[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