Data Center Travel Changes Have Made Raiding Impossible, Where is the Fix?!?

[GartredZW]

So you would rather punish people who have raided together for years, and force them to break up as a static...all so you can sit in your in-game house watching a show on your second monitor while waiting for a raid to fill? I don't understand this level of selfishness...

Not just that I can sit in my house. It's so that I can do anything without having to log out, Check if any server in Aether is open, wait for the transfer to complete, log back in, and then check the party finder.
We got along just fine on our own Data Center before DC hopping was added. we'll do so again. Remember all of the restrictions you're under while DC traveling. You can't use your retainers, you can't talk on Linkshells or your Free Company chat, You can't gather timed nodes.
Currently, anyone who was unlucky enough to have a character on a Data Center that isn't Aether, Light, or Mana is just out of luck in finding anything to do involving raiding. And here you are calling me selfish for wanting Square to actually fix this without just undoing the entire DC travel system?

If these static players really want to raid together under this system, then they could always just buy DC transfers, or form new statics.
Would you give the same advice to me and every other raider who doesn't live on Aether? Just to buy a DC transfer and oversaturate the one raiding server even more?

You're blind if you don't think there's an issue here. I'll ask for what solution you propose then.
If it's cross DC party finder, then that's not a bad idea, but even Square admits it would take a lot of development time to get up and running properly, and that we're still a long way away. These issues are happening now, and they have been for the past two years.

[JimCasey_RF6]

It appears that the devs feel they made a mistake by opening wide the flood gates for dc travel. The new restrictions, most likely, are the fix or at least an attempt at one.

[glitteringcosmos]

inaccurate statement when we had more new players signing up for Dynamis than the main 3 data centers.

Because you literally CANNOT make characters on Aether right now, or half of Primal/Crystal. If a world is marked congested you can't make a character there. Your argument is flawed.

[YonaAkatsuki]

Calling other people selfish while demanding to go back to when the game was miserable for everyone not on the regional dogpile DC is absolutely wild lmao

I sincerely don't get this argument. I'm from crystal, and can still do everything else just fine. When I went to check out Aether for the first time, I was astounded at how many groups there were for raids and ultimates. Parties filled up so much quicker too! Having to go over there for reclears wasn't miserable at all, and didn't even take that long. I could go when I wanted, and return to Crystal without issue. My home world wasn't empty by any means, and it def wasn't one of the dogpile DCs. What exactly was so miserable about that?

[YonaAkatsuki]

Remember all of the restrictions you're under while DC traveling. You can't use your retainers, you can't talk on Linkshells or your Free Company chat, You can't gather timed nodes.

To be fair to your statement none of these things affect me much. I won't die if I can't send my retainers out for a few hours, and keep everything I'll need on me or my chocobo saddle bag when traveling. Linkshells and FC chat don't matter since communication has always been through discord for me, and the hunt train LS i'm a part of don't matter since I wouldn't be able to transfer to the random S ranks in time anyway. As for timed nodes, I've always made money through other means so I can buy the timed resources.

I get your point if you have no other way to communicate with people, but i'd take the silence any day to have savage and ulti parties fill with 2/3d's more people.

[GartredZW]

I'm from crystal, and can still do everything else just fine.

What do you categorize as "Just Fine"?
I just tried checking there a little bit ago. It's a saturday, maybe a bit early for the west coast, but definitely not dead hours. There was one PF entry in High End. A M1S prog party.

[VoidsentStatus]

Because you literally CANNOT make characters on Aether right now, or half of Primal/Crystal. If a world is marked congested you can't make a character there. Your argument is flawed.

I think you missed the point of the argument. You actually gave another point in my favor for why people weren't going to Aether/Primal/Crystal if they couldn't because of what you said. The reason is irrelevant, it's the fact that they made a false statement of people fleeing in mass and not logging into Dynamis when that's a demonstrably false claim.

[Avoidy]

Square's solution was dumb, but I'm surprised the raiding community isn't adapting and just meeting on Primal instead of Aether since that dc is actually open. I'd heard from some friends that this was the case, but OP's post leads me to believe that there's still a sizable chunk of folks who refuse to leave the locked datacenter and would prefer to wait until crazy-hours to sneak in rather than just migrate to a new hub dc. Weird.