Please enable Cross region travel EU-NA

[Annbun]

please!!!

in this tweet they state that the system is ready to go, the community just needs to let themselves hear for it!!


I've been waiting for this ever since they hinted at it, please I play both regions and I'd like to use 1 character to play both! I know people who have reservations about 'culture' or things changing, but those who want to play on both already do. I don't think much will change besides easing the lives of those who want to travel freely

[Amecoeur]

If anyone needs this its the OC Materia region.

[Shikiseki]

I think OCE is a good alterenative cause I don't want EU PF to be dead cause some peepz think it's smart to flock to the "raiding" dc (it's unlikely that this will happen due to latency but still...). Maybe if they restrict the usage of party finder as Voyager

[Jeeqbit]

Yes, I would like this.

All regions have already been meeting on Materia, especially for hunts. I mean literally there are people from EU, JP and NA all in one party and they aren't having a particular problem with eachother. I was also going there for some time to do roulettes to help them out initially and that also wasn't an issue.

And again, we were all meeting on the Cloud DC as well and the culture mix wasn't an issue; we just simply adapted to work with eachother. We are not used to using auto-translate in the NA region but we learned to use it so we could communicate things to the JP players there and we fought all sorts of things together. Everyone there tried to show respect, even people who don't normally.

I'd also have to make the argument that if people want to play in the JP region, they already make an alt to do so. If EU players want to play in the NA region, they already do that on an alt or they transfer. If NA players want to play in the EU region, they already do that on an alt or they transfer. Beside just meeting people I know transferred across regions multiple times or have alts, I also know because I am in discord servers and see some players switching around.

I think OCE is a good alterenative cause I don't want EU PF to be dead cause some peepz think it's smart to flock to the "raiding" dc (it's unlikely that this will happen due to latency but still...).

I think it's unlikely due to latency, as you said. In fact, the motivation would likely be to go to a good-ping DC for raiding and then go somewhere else for other things (friends, roleplaying, etc).

But I think the "switch DC to raid" issue needs to be addressed more generally. The public "High-End" category should be blocked off when traveling to restrict pugging to home DCs, but the private "High-End" category left open so statics can still travel.

[PassinLay]

If anyone needs this its the OC Materia region.

The whole 10 people on Materia agree.

[TDawnstar]

That would be amazing :3

[Reinha]

But I think the "switch DC to raid" issue needs to be addressed more generally. The public "High-End" category should be blocked off when traveling to restrict pugging to home DCs, but the private "High-End" category left open so statics can still travel.

All public categories should be blocked when DC traveling. People should not be cross-DC traveling to do content with strangers, because it kills the PF on certain DCs.

Once that change is implemented I'll support cross region travel.

[Bonoki]

The only groups that might be negatively affected are the high-end raid communities and what's left of the non-venue-focused free company communities. You could also make a case for a slight impact on hunts but to a much lesser extent. For everyone else, this change is a clear net positive.

Other local communities in some data centers might also be affected, particularly regarding language barriers in widely used Discord servers that strive for order and organization, such as those for Party Finder or Ultimate Raiding or providing some other resource.

That said, it seems like SE is aiming for an all-or-nothing approach: either allowing full regional data center travel or none at all.

[Rekh]

Only if they lock Aether, I want to be able to actually log into the game.

[St0rmy]

I would really enjoy this finally being enabled. A lot of my friends are on EU and while I do have an alt character trying to keep two characters caught up at the same time is far too time consuming and stressful. I'd really just prefer if I could play with them on my main character.

OCE isn't a good alternative because the lag there is an awful experience for both NA and EU. When playing on EU the lag isn't noticeable but on OCE it is utterly miserable. NA to EU would be a better alternative because at the very least just one group has to suffer some lag as opposed to both groups suffering a great amount of lag. OCE is genuinely unplayable for the most part if you don't actually live there.

It would be really fun if they enabled it. I genuinely don't think there is any downside to it. The damage of DC travel has already been done to PF, it's not going to get worse by adding NA to EU ontop of it. I think restricting PF would be silly cause this prevents people from doing things like map parties or even doing high-end content with their friend groups that don't completely fill out all 8 slots.