[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[CuteBucket]

Oh hey, was gonna pop over to Primal tonight to run some Rival Wings for the moogle tomes since Primal is the only server that runs it enough to get the queues to pop frequently, but NOPE, it's closed right now! Can't even do the thing I wanted to log on and play, have to wait until later in the evening to try again, I guess. I sure love paying monthly for a game that doesn't let me meet with my friends on their DC or go play the game modes I want to play due to this new arbitrary restriction! /s

[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.

[Naomi_Sinclaire]

I'm currently trying to DC travel to visit friends, & I literally can't even hop to any other world on my regions data center other than one other world. I get its reset time & that I'm on Dynamis, but this is preposterous regardless.

[PassinLay]

I'm currently trying to DC travel to visit friends, & I literally can't even hop to any other world on my regions data center other than one other world. I get its reset time & that I'm on Dynamis, but this is preposterous regardless.

But the game is congested ! Cant you see it ?

https://steamcharts.com/app/39210

An all time low since december 2023 and the previous time it was this bad was in march 2022, but apparently now the game is super congested and all the worlds are full

this congestion stuff is such an absolute joke its not even funny anymore

And before anyone says "its only steam !!!!", its called statistics. Steam players arent any different from players on other platforms.

[Arzalis]

I don't blame people for transferring back/to the formerly congested worlds.

The implementation of DC travel basically had an understanding that people could transfer off from their communities to spread out the population but still be able to play with their friends and such at any time. SE has totally went against that with these restrictions.

I wouldn't trust them at this point even if they claim they'll never do it again. SE has kind of shown the risk of being cut off from friends/communities/etc. is at their whim and they will literally not care.

[PassinLay]

I don't blame people for transferring back/to the formerly congested worlds.

The implementation of DC travel basically had an understanding that people could transfer off from their communities to spread out the population but still be able to play with their friends and such at any time. SE has totally went against that with these restrictions.

I wouldn't trust them at this point even if they claim they'll never do it again. SE has kind of shown the risk of being cut off from friends/communities/etc. is at their whim and they will literally not care.

Yep, quite a few people still on Dynamis are actually ready to move the second their cooldown is ready, and a lot already did (including myself)

The second crystal opened for transfer, i was outta dynamis and never looked back, I can visit my dyna houses just fine and only lost a small house, not worth being stuck on dynamis with no travel for god knows how long because "muh congestion" that doesnt even exist.

[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

[Nebelheim]

Yep, quite a few people still on Dynamis are actually ready to move the second their cooldown is ready, and a lot already did (including myself)

The second crystal opened for transfer, i was outta dynamis and never looked back, I can visit my dyna houses just fine and only lost a small house, not worth being stuck on dynamis with no travel for god knows how long because "muh congestion" that doesnt even exist.

I'm also thinking of transferring back to primal once my cooldown is up in 2 weeks because of the restrictions square enix did to datacenter visit and most of the time I can't visit the 3 other datacenters to get content done since there always marked as "congested" then stuck waiting 30+ minutes in a que on dynamis.

[Astronema]

can't go to aether its full. can't do content.
what to do...

Log out unsub go to wow. enough is enough.

[Nebelheim]

I know I strongly considered moving to Primal or Crystal despite starting on Dynamis after the first lock down because it was miserable, especially as an avid PVPer who was stuck getting boring, uncontested wins and loses thanks to the massive influx of premades who were engorging themselves on all the trapped Dynamis players, many of whom had never done PVP before and of course were dipping their toes into it for the first time for leveling to 100. Currently I'm not fond of loitering outside Primal's door on the data center travel list just because I want to do Rival Wings for mogtomes, and that data center has always been the hotspot for it even when travel to Aether was still available.

...But recently my brother started playing more actively and my sister has thought about coming back as well, and I don't want a situation where I'm somewhere they can't get to on Primal/Crystal, so I come to them back on Dynamis, but then we're stuck in long queues even if we're 3/4ths or 3/8ths of a party (and none of us like healing so WELP), because even that won't always help you during non-peak hours on Maduin as we're prone to playing later in the day/night. I'm basically being forced to choose between companions or convenience, same as everyone else in this damn leaky boat.

I spent most of my time on primal since 2013 and went to dynamis for a chance of a medium house since I struggled to upgrade my small to a medium on leviathan and to play with a friend but they hardly play so I feel I wasted my time and should have just stayed and kept the small I had especially with how bad dynamis que times can get at certain times and party finder is going back to pre dawntrail levels after the dawntrail hype died down.