Quote Originally Posted by shiftweave View Post
Firstly - no it wasn't. Crystal was widely regarded as a total meme, and Primal players regarded as the strange ones who did weird strats. Crystal still to this day held onto that reputation.

Secondly, even if it was, then they did implement DC travel. Aether became the absolute hub, and just removing our access to that space does nothing to fix that. There are 11 DSR parties up on Aether right now. There's ONE party up on ANY OTHER NA dc. With Cross-DC pf, every NA player would have access to twelve parties.
I raided on Crystal before DC travel came out and it was fine. I also did the current tier on Crystal and the experience was still fine. There are definitely enough raiders on Crystal and the perception of it being a total meme is itself a total meme. As for Ultimate raids, party finder is a bad option no matter where you go.

Anyway, my suggestion was not to add new servers or remove access to Aether, only to spread the raider population with ping as the incentive.