The restrictions on Data Center Travel are unnecessary

[Alyko]

I'm still seeing plenty of people from other DCs on Aether so if their aim was to make people do PF on their own DCs with the restrictions, that doesn't seem to have worked. They need to remove the restrictions and freely allow DC Travel again.

I've got the solution. Force a return to your Home World upon logging out of Aether, enable AFK timers on Aether, and if you really want to squash "Aether is teh raiding DC!!!!!" mindset, disable raids for wanderers on Aether. Make visiting Aether so unpleasant that it encourages raiding on home DCs.

[PassinLay]

I've got the solution. Force a return to your Home World upon logging out of Aether, enable AFK timers on Aether, and if you really want to squash "Aether is teh raiding DC!!!!!" mindset, disable raids for wanderers on Aether. Make visiting Aether so unpleasant that it encourages raiding on home DCs.

Or a crazy thought, we just keep it as it was because it was absolutely fine especially since what they called the "congestion" has died down and we are back to pre-DT levels as per steamchart.

[Jojoya]

I've got the solution. Force a return to your Home World upon logging out of Aether, enable AFK timers on Aether, and if you really want to squash "Aether is teh raiding DC!!!!!" mindset, disable raids for wanderers on Aether. Make visiting Aether so unpleasant that it encourages raiding on home DCs.

Players would just pick another DC to congregate on and start the problem all over again.

If the idea is to try to get players to choose to play on their home DCs, you'd have to give them some sort of bonus reward for doing so. Even then, you'd get players complaining that it's not fair they have to give up their bonus to play with their friends on another DC.

It's one of those situations where players are never going to be satisfied because grass is always greener on the other side.

[Sad-Panda]

They need to simply unify the Party Finder so they are region-wide. That would solve all the problem and there would be no need to dc travel unless its for shopping or for events.

[PassinLay]

Bumping because tired of this thread falling down pages behind. This needs to be talked about.

[Espon]

Used to hang out with friends at my house on Cactuar. Haven't really used it since since the start of Dawntrail because no one can get onto Aether so we meet up at a temporary place... It's now been many weeks and we are still using temporary places to meet up. Yes, it's a venue but so what?

I don't know what they're waiting for. The only time I get queues is when there's a DDoS attack, and that has nothing to do with the popularity of the game or servers being full, that's just people trying to log back in after being kicked and the login servers only being able to handle so many people per cycle.

[windfought]

Bumping this thread again! We're in the second tier, and this problem continues to persist across NA, EU, and JP data centers. Please consider fixing this massive oversight, devs. Thank you! ♥

[DivineP]

Bumping this thread again! We're in the second tier, and this problem continues to persist across NA, EU, and JP data centers. Please consider fixing this massive oversight, devs. Thank you! ♥

Bumping too. Totally agree for ppl stuck on dynamis - your going to lose customers if ppl cannot fill ques or complete things like Cosmic Explore be cause you've over done it with servers due to the WoW exodus and directing new comers to those servers on free trials.

This is an MMO which is story driven and alot of stuff gets locked behind duty's. Can't progress a story if there's noone to play and your sitting in a que for hours with no trusts or DC travel.

[Riletz]

I found myself unable to travel to Aether for 40 minutes straight today. Though it's really 4.5, I'll be generous and say it takes about 6 seconds to check the travel menu and close it. That's 10 attempts per minute, 400 attempts total. Not once did any Aether world light up. I tried, partly out of stubbornness, partly out of curiosity, until my wrist hurt and I had to give up. A friend told me there were plenty of <Traveler> players sitting around Limsa.
Square Enix needs to re-enable AFK kicks or stop pretending their game is anywhere close to full. This is absurd.