Lack of Cross-DC PF is getting me burnt out on XIV, and it's such an unforced error

[Phyoka]

I love raiding.
I love chatting with my FC mates.
I love crafting, and selling that stuff on the MB.
I love taking care of my estate's garden, and my FC's submarines.

I hate that while I do the first, I can't do any of the latter, because Aether isn't my home. Unfortunately for me, there just isn't sustainable content to run right aside from Savage, and the only way to enjoy Savage is to be away from home. It was the same with FRU for months, I basically haven't spent more than 5% of my time in game on my home DC. I can't chat with my friends, reset retainers, list my crafted items for sale, DO ANYTHING but raid right now.

In order for me to spend more time with the friends I made in this game, I have to close this game and stop playing, and open another game so that I can interact with them in a meaningful way.

If we had cross DC PF, I could be chatting, hanging out in the FC yard, doing retainer, trading, venue-hopping, just generally being around to be present with my friends while I wait for a party. And these days, even with Aether as full as it is, I spend more time in PF waiting for a party than I do raiding the game.

The worst part is that I actually don't mind waiting more than half of my time in game just to play content, as long as I can just wait while I'm hanging out with friends. At this point, I spend my days waiting for PF to fill, as I am right now, and I'm thinking about just pausing Savage raiding because of this friction. But then if I stop, then there's no reason to log in anymore at all, there's no content to wait for.

At least in 7.0's tier because it was so easy and the playerbase was so full, I could just chill on Primal the whole time and raid happily without having to leave to Aether.

[Ajisaii]

They said it would take them at least 3 years to implement cross dc pf so they aren't going to do it lol

[Jeeqbit]

They said it would take them at least 3 years to implement cross dc pf so they aren't going to do it lol

They've said other things would be challenging, such as DC travel itself, and I know as a technical person myself that world visit was complicated to implement and required navigating a lot of potential issues with code that was not designed for visitors. Yet, they did both these things eventually.

My guess is they'll aim for 7.57 or 7.58 because they usually test these things in the lull before expansion release.

[Gurgeh]

They've said other things would be challenging, such as DC travel itself, and I know as a technical person myself that world visit was complicated to implement and required navigating a lot of potential issues with code that was not designed for visitors. Yet, they did both these things eventually.

My guess is they'll aim for 7.57 or 7.58 because they usually test these things in the lull before expansion release.

They've had this 'catastrophic' problem since 6.x . 7.5x is just not good enough.
I suspect that instead the lesson they have learned is that they just shouldn't do stuff like travel in the future. Keep things the same for 12 years of 6 expansions. Except jobs. Re-do those completely every 4 years, so that you never really become expert.
I still haven't unlocked viper. What's the point when I've got to suffer dumbed down keeper of the lake, pointless unsynced Chloe's Xtremes and I'm still trying to get decent at Monk again, while constantly 'taking a break' 1 out of every 2 sub months.

[Xapapetsu]

Yeah not having cross DC PF is annoying, my main is on primal, which if I'm lucky has 10 pfs up full of prog liars. I just gave up raiding without my static because I can't get onto aether. At least on aether there's 30+ PFs full of prog liars.

[HyperiusUltima]

I can't even Prog FRU because Aether's clogged up. It's annoying and you'd have to get on the dead hours of the night to even get in there.

[Valence]

To add insult to injury they force merged ranked pvp into single Datacenters, which, at least for me, has the reverse effect of making me participate LESS, not more, when it's hosted on the other datacenter.

[Nana_Bear]

To add insult to injury they force merged ranked pvp into single Datacenters, which, at least for me, has the reverse effect of making me participate LESS, not more, when it's hosted on the other datacenter.

Meanwhile, things like Rival Wings consistently give "Wait >30 min" unless either one of the big Discords has set up an RW event, or we have Irregular Tomestones event going. Even though the dang thing pulls from an entire DC, most of the time that message is showing, basically meaning "give up on this for today/tonight, not enough people, this ain't happenin' today/tonight." Sigh. For those (no standings to worry about), it would be really nice if we could pull across all a zone's DCs for it. But for ranked PVP, to *add* to the amount of people for rankings? Um, no. Agree with you there.

I also do think if queues for dungeons/trials/raids could pull across a region---eg., pulling from ALL NA DCs---it could help a lot with queueing on worlds/DC where you may wait for hours for a queue to pop. (Looks at Dynamis people envying Aether's queues.)

[CidHeiral]

DC travel was a mistake.

[SophiaDL]

DC travel was a mistake.

I agree, lets go back to the good old days of having to transfer and leave old friends behind to join new friends on another DC, what a great amount of fun that was ! Having to make a choice between friends is such a great idea /s

Imagine being this much agaisnt people being able to play with all of their friends, how anti-social one must be to think that way and want to impose it on others