[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[KitaiAryik]

I'm extremely disappointed that these concerns have not been addressed in the slightest this far out while Aether remains consistently locked out at any decent gaming hour. I'm now heavily considering homeworld transferring my character off Dynamis, forfeiting the house I have there, in order to freely play the game with my friends as I'd like to be able to and, well, adding more to Aether's home world congestion issues as a result.

its what i had to wind up doing myself. now that at least some servers are opened up to xfer/character creation, i just pulled the trigger on moving my character off of primal to aether as many of my friends are on the DC as it stands and hated having to make each and every one to go out of their way to meet up with me with me being one of the only ones NOT on Aether at the time. so i just decided to say "fk it" and pay the $18 xfer fee to make it easier for those i play with. as it stands, you couldn't blast me off this DC for anything since i don't want to be locked out of it again for MONTHS at at time or for lord knows how long the next time it gets completely locked down again. its sad that doing this only adds to the problem but i feel i don't have much of a choice outside just to xfer or risk being locked out of my grp/friend circle again and have to make them go out their way to DC travel when it would just be easier for me to go to them. but alas idk what would be a solution but whatever this is just is NOT it.

[KitaiAryik]

They need to just give up and accept that we don't have the player numbers to populate 4 NA data centers and merge Dynamis into Aether/Primal/Crystal. Give Aether the 2 least populated, split the remaining 6 into 3 each for Primal & Crystal, and *then* only if absolutely necessary, give Aether a new world to bring all 3 of the remaining NA data centers up to 11.

But they won't, because announcing data center merges would look like "bad PR" for the state of the game, and they probably want to squeeze as many pay transfers out of people first (especially with Aether opened back up) before they even think about handing out a "free" one by moving the Dynamis worlds over wholesale.

would be the easiest bet but alas SE would squeeze $18 an xfer b4 they even attempt something like that. they sure as hell got my money to not have to go through this again as it is. sucks that it has to come down to paying for that but it is what it is atm and unless something gives which wouldn't look so good for SE PR wise specially after scraping what they needed for the new DC when the whole WoW exodus/COVID time was a thing, but that was a temporary thing and now thats passed, we just don't have the population for 30+ servers across 4 DCs to support it all. only time we would even remotely have that would be an expansion launch but that also doesn't really last after a couple months

[KitaiAryik]

And even then, we did just have an expansion launch (and the Xbox one), but it did little to increase Dynamis player numbers, and in fact a lot of people pay transferred out after their 90 day bar was lifted, because most people have in fact been using Dynamis as a "cheaper" character boost as you can roll a character on most Dynamis worlds, use Road to 90 to fast track multiple jobs/speenrun the MSQ, and then pay $18 to move to Aether/Primal/Crystal rather than spend $25 *each* on the different "Tales of Adventure" for jobs and MSQ skip.

We're basically an alt churner, and the only "mains" here like myself are 100% reliant on data center travel to get anything done. Like, I got frickin' stuck on progressing my own MSQ last night because I needed to do the Susano fight but there's no way in hell I'll find even *one* other person to do it unsync at 10PM at night with me on Maduin, much less 7 other people if I wanted to do it normally, and the only reason I didn't just DC travel right then is because I wanted to step away from the game at that moment I was so annoyed/depressed at just how bad choosing to stay on Dynamis truly was.

Since my last post in here on the 14th, I have half a mind to just clean out the FC I'm babysitting (and take whatever "social" consequences that come with it assuming the other members ever log in again/bother to track me down), ditch my Medium house, and just pay the damn fine to get into Aether while I still can.

and its those on dynamis i feel bad for atm the most since its been DoA with it launching with DC travel. with little incentive outside free xfers and xp boost, there is just no incentive to roll a toon there much less stay there. and those that do either roll a character or wound up xferring to dynamis almost feels like a punishment with all the restrictions in NA, to where its a mistake to begin with. so its been a moot point to even have the DC to begin with and now you would have to pay the xfer costs just to get basic MSQ roulettes done to get to the current expansion since everything is tied to story in some form with the restrictions making it difficult to DC travel for those on Dynamis. all the restrictions and lockdowns did was have the opposite effect of what SE wanted in that ppl just wanted to get the hell off of Dynamis once servers started opening up and 90 days passed for xfers to begin with so we just wind up back where we started before all this. all around its just fkd up and with SE giving 0 comments on it, hell we're even lucky we get even a vague statement at the best of times, just makes ppl feel like they don't even want to play the game anymore or even log in which is so messed up as is.

[wirebones]

Sent my Dynamis alt back home last night to pick up moogle mail because I bought the new cash shop item.

Woke up at 9AM EST this morning and the entirety of Aether was already locked so I couldn't get on it to meet up with friends for dailies like I usually do. Pretty much solidifying my decision to transfer the character back to Aether as soon as my preferred server opens up because the restrictions are truly forcing my hand to... make Aether more congested.