[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[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