[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[Bladesinger]

....and the rest of Dynamis is dead, can't travel unless I give up on sleep and move over to another dc at 6am but now I'm at a loss cuz I cant access any of my retainers or fc buffs, etc. no sleep, no queues, no leveling retainers, small number of people to talk to and play with. The pf is pretty barren most times, queues are rough no matter what job you play, except for a couple hours in the evening when the online player count reaches its daily peak. so many people are just straight up quitting the game, taking a break, or fleeing to another dc asap where they sit logged in 24/7 using 3rd party tools to avoid being removed for inactivity. Dynamis is just as dead as it was at patch 6.5 (ish) and is getting worse daily. I believe everyone from Dynamis is due some playtime as compensation, because this has just been a completely unacceptable situation. The fact that they've completely ignored this outburst of unhappiness on the forums by not removing the restrictions with the hotfix, and haven't commented on it at all is complete disrespect to all of us, and unprofessional to say the least.

Well said =)

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[kajv95]

EU isn't congested enough to keep the Shadow DC. Remove restrictions for EU

[Andanie]

Me and my friend are planning to transfer later tonight so we can also make it to Crystal before it's completely blocked off and we're stuck on the worst server in the game. So yeah, before we had an active and somewhat healthy FC of people who'd play on both Dynamis and Crystal, now our FC is dying as everyone flees to Crystal because Dynamis honest to god just sucks. That's the impact that this change has had on our FC. Not sure if that's what Square Enix originally intended with these changes, but that's what's happening.

I've been saying that the entire time. This isn't going to make players roll on Dynamis. It's going to make the ones on it flee. As an rper, most if not all the best rp venues are on Crystal specifically Balmung or Mateus. With the current restrictions getting onto these servers is frustrating if not impossible at times. This is a net negative for us.

[Arzalis]

Yeah. I knew a few people who moved to Dynamis because they could always DC travel and get to places on Crystal. With these silly restrictions, they are mostly all planning on moving back to Crystal ASAP.

Personally, I wouldn't move to Dynamis even if SE reverts the change at this point. There will always be a chance in the future they do this again or implement some other poorly thought out idea and you're stuck again until however long it takes them to care. They're very quick to implement stuff like this, but it'll take them half a year or more to revert it. This is assuming they aren't stubborn about it and simply refuse to change it back.


Thinking about it: Housing is at the root of a lot of the problems with server populations. Since they're so difficult to get, no one with a house is ever going to want to move. This also means a lot of older, popular hangout spots are in those original servers too. Even people without houses will want to go the original server if it's a spot they link to hangout at, rp, whatever.

The server populations will never spread out until SE adds instanced housing, which would move with you to new servers. But it's been like a decade and they haven't cared to do anything meaningful about that, so I doubt it's happening. This game just does everything possible to make it really hard to play with friends sometimes.

[1313]

Dynamis is a trap. Don't go there. New players shouldn't buy the game in NA. It's THAT bad. Just a write off game at the moment, complete waste of a data center. They should have just added a couple servers to each existing data center in the first place instead of this mistreatment, gitgud squenix.

[Mika_Zahard]

There will always be a chance in the future they do this again or implement some other poorly thought out idea and you're stuck again until however long it takes them to care.

This just sums up SE's failures and poor thinking.

Every expansion there's a fiasco somewhere. First, we had the instance fiasco with stormblood. Then we had the housing lotto fiasco on EW, that made people unable to bid for houses for a month or so, and now we have the DC restrictions because its "not an issue on JP"

[1313]

"Dynamis is fine bro. It's your fault for creating your character there when you had no other options. Your feelings and rights don't matter cuz I'm not affected by the problem like you are. You should have just not played the game at all while your 45 days of free playtime expired. This is all your fault, victim." - players from anywhere but dynamis.

[Shinku_Tachi]

Dynamis is a trap. Don't go there. New players shouldn't buy the game in NA. It's THAT bad. Just a write off game at the moment, complete waste of a data center. They should have just added a couple servers to each existing data center in the first place instead of this mistreatment, gitgud squenix.

I get you're upset, but this is just super over the top and hyperbolic.

[VoidsentStatus]

I get you're upset, but this is just super over the top and hyperbolic.

He's been over the top and lying the whole time. Kid sat here and posted a picture of being role #15 in line for healer in alliance raids as if that doesn't indicate there's a giant population of people doing said content and he has to wait his turn. If it was actually dead it'd be 30+ minutes with noone in line because they quit. For that many people to be in line, that means the number is moving and going down. Kid posts a PF screenshot at 3AM when people are asleep or on other data centers visiting friends because congestion has ended by that time period, meanwhile me and others regularly see Dynamis at 40-60 PF's during the actual day. He's literally looking for any reason to complain at all. If he's complaining about PF at 3AM, I doubt he's even supposed to be playing on our data region to begin with. You wouldn't find people running content that late unless you were in EU/JP time zones. 12-3AM is not a time period most games would even have an expectation of a lot of activity going on.