Re-merge Chaos and Light please

[Trekkie22]

Chaos PF is dead as hell right now. Re-merge them into one data centre or allow cross data centre PF and DF within the same region.

Absolute travesty the state of Chaos in general right now.

[Kranel_San]

Better yet, keep them as it is but start having savage raiding locked to one DC each time.

[NightHour]

Better yet, keep them as it is but start having savage raiding locked to one DC each time.

Do you mean...

Locking players on to their own data centre for the first patch of a Savage and Ultimate release?

or

Making it so only 1 specific DC can access Savage like Crystalline Conflict ranked?


Both bad ideas but idea 2 is even worse.




Better idea right here -

REGION WIDE PARTY FINDER


All they need to do is make 1 unified PF for every region.

It would probably require some tech to make it so Chaos players can join Light PF's from their home DC and vice versa.

That way, Chaos players can still raid with Light players without losing access to things like Retainers, Free Companies etc and vice versa.

Nor do they have to travel every single time they have a raid.



They should just unify each regions PF into 1 big PF for that region.


No more "Light PF" "Aether PF" etc... we make it "EU PF" "NA PF" "JP PF" "OCE PF"

[Kranel_San]

Do you mean...

Locking players on to their own data centre for the first patch of a Savage and Ultimate release?

or

Making it so only 1 specific DC can access Savage like Crystalline Conflict ranked?


Both bad ideas but idea 2 is even worse.




Better idea right here -

REGION WIDE PARTY FINDER


All they need to do is make 1 unified PF for every region.

It would probably require some tech to make it so Chaos players can join Light PF's from their home DC and vice versa.

That way, Chaos players can still raid with Light players without losing access to things like Retainers, Free Companies etc and vice versa.

Nor do they have to travel every single time they have a raid.



They should just unify each regions PF into 1 big PF for that region.


No more "Light PF" "Aether PF" etc... we make it "EU PF" "NA PF" "JP PF" "OCE PF"

The second option. Unless they can pull out a Regional Cross-DC party finder

Better yet, a Regional Cross-DC duty finder queues

Even much more better, a Regional Cross-DC travel in-game by the aetheryte, and not the main menu.

Combine all of the above (Except the first solution ever) and you'll solve the issue completely.

[Burmecia]

i've presence on both so whatever, re-merge away

saves me having to travel when i need to sneak stuff and money from one to other

[Nurana]

I have liked being on chaos it was fun and i met many great people but many of those have moved to light for the simple reason it's dead here and they can do anything on light and i can't blame them there is little here to keep them from leaving i myself have thought many times about just transferring to light the only thing that still stops me are my houses
knowing how much i them and how hard it would be to get a house let alone a large is really the only thing stopping me at this point when it comes to friends you can always just visit through dc travel
i just think they didn't really think this all through and react to things way to slow to fix problems like this at this point the only real option i see is make pf dc wide though this still would not fix the imbalance it would be a great step forward

[Miohazuki]

Do you mean...

Locking players on to their own data centre for the first patch of a Savage and Ultimate release?

or

Making it so only 1 specific DC can access Savage like Crystalline Conflict ranked?


Both bad ideas but idea 2 is even worse.




Better idea right here -

REGION WIDE PARTY FINDER


All they need to do is make 1 unified PF for every region.

It would probably require some tech to make it so Chaos players can join Light PF's from their home DC and vice versa.

That way, Chaos players can still raid with Light players without losing access to things like Retainers, Free Companies etc and vice versa.

Nor do they have to travel every single time they have a raid.



They should just unify each regions PF into 1 big PF for that region.


No more "Light PF" "Aether PF" etc... we make it "EU PF" "NA PF" "JP PF" "OCE PF"

That is even more stupid .playing with high ping people .what could go wrong

[PotatoePet]

That is even more stupid .playing with high ping people .what could go wrong

AFAIK all DCs in all regions are located at the same location. There is no such thing as NA-East / NA-West.

EDIT: Just to be clear:
EU (Light & Chaos) are hosted in Frankfurt, Germany
NA (Aether, Crystal, Dynamis & Primal) are hosted in Sacramento, CA, United States
JP (Elemental, Gaia, Mana & Meteor) are hosted in Tokyo, Japan
OC (Materia) is hosted in Sydney, Australia

[LaylaTsarra]

AFAIK all DCs in all regions are located at the same location. There is no such thing as NA-East / NA-West.

EDIT: Just to be clear:
EU (Light & Chaos) are hosted in Frankfurt, Germany
NA (Aether, Crystal, Dynamis & Primal) are hosted in Sacramento, CA, United States
JP (Elemental, Gaia, Mana & Meteor) are hosted in Tokyo, Japan
OC (Materia) is hosted in Sydney, Australia

I am on the East Coast of NA and I have characters on Light, Chaos, Materia and Japan in addition to NA. Game plays fine.

[NightHour]

That is even more stupid .playing with high ping people .what could go wrong

All datacenters are hosted in the same place in their specific region so if you have high ping on Chaos, it's gonna be no different on Light.

They were probably planning one during the huge player boom at the start of Endwalker, and then quickly scrapped that idea when they saw the drop off and their new additions, Dynamis and Materia, struggle to get enough players to do anything.


Chaos used to be THE raiding DC for most of Shadowbringers. Light still had a raiding scene but it wasn't exactly packed and Chaos was seemingly more successful.
And then at some point during Endwalker that completely flipped.

Data Center Travel allowing Chaos players to come raid with their light friends without having to pay for a transfer. That plus LPDU.

Weren't they planning a third EU DC at some point?

I really hope we get regional PF and queuing in the game. The ping pong for Raiding and PvP currently is kinda pain.

They did plan to have a 8:8:8 configuration for DC's but I guess they needed the money to fund their flops instead.

And tbh, we don't really need a 3rd DC right now.