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

[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

[Gember]

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

I don't think anyone is wanting friends to be separate from each other. None of us are thinking that when we complain about DC travel. Ironically DC travel has made people even more anti-social and separate in many cases. When you got friends who like to do many things in this game, they should be able to do it all from their home server. Someone who might enjoy cosmic exploration or island sanctuary cannot do that while waiting for a PF to fill on their own server due to the community's will to pack everyone onto one DC for PF content. I cannot talk to my friend who more or less have to go to Aether to do PF content, while I stay on my own DC to do other types of content that don't allow me to do so elsewhere. People like myself have tried to host parties from their own servers on these quiet DCs, and it just keeps failing as the practice strengthens over time. No one wants friends to be separated, and no one wants to be on a dead DC. The issue were having is that the system is incredibly flawed and needs better updates. If it doesn't get updated, I think that is a huge loss for people who innocently chose a DC that wasn't tied to some activity they may have liked. We shouldn't have to make a choice, I agree, but the game has lost a lot of its charm with this system put in place. It can be so much better, and that is what we want. We don't want the system to remain for years as is. Either shut it down or make it better.

[Gember]

It's weird, honestly. Data center travel is why Dynamis doesn't have a lot of people actively playing on it, but without data center travel, most of those people would probably just transfer off and newer players would likely avoid being stuck on a "dead" data center so the population would still remain low with more people leaving/avoiding then joining/staying.

Regardless if they keep or get rid of DC travel now, it won't really help Dynamis at this point because there just isn't enough incentive to make people go there and stay, not even housing was enough.

I really do feel for Dynamis, and I hope it does get on its feet eventually. The travel system right now is not helping it at all, but I also don't want people to feel trapped on Dynamis either when the population is low. We just need a better system, and I hope a lot of this feedback is being considered and being taken into account. I don't want people to think its "fine" or its "working as intended" when there is lot of cons to the travel system. It 100% can be improved, and that is what I am rooting for.

[CidHeiral]

I don't think anyone is wanting friends to be separate from each other. None of us are thinking that when we complain about DC travel. Ironically DC travel has made people even more anti-social and separate in many cases. When you got friends who like to do many things in this game, they should be able to do it all from their home server. Someone who might enjoy cosmic exploration or island sanctuary cannot do that while waiting for a PF to fill on their own server due to the community's will to pack everyone onto one DC for PF content. I cannot talk to my friend who more or less have to go to Aether to do PF content, while I stay on my own DC to do other types of content that don't allow me to do so elsewhere. People like myself have tried to host parties from their own servers on these quiet DCs, and it just keeps failing as the practice strengthens over time. No one wants friends to be separated, and no one wants to be on a dead DC. The issue were having is that the system is incredibly flawed and needs better updates. If it doesn't get updated, I think that is a huge loss for people who innocently chose a DC that wasn't tied to some activity they may have liked. We shouldn't have to make a choice, I agree, but the game has lost a lot of its charm with this system put in place. It can be so much better, and that is what we want. We don't want the system to remain for years as is. Either shut it down or make it better.

Exactly. I can't imagine why anyone would have a problem with people playing with friends but you have to take that in the context of the current situation. If your options are 1.) retain the ability to DC travel your main character to friends but annihilate most of the game and 2.) lose DC travel and make an alt, it should be pretty clear which is the lesser of two evils.

If they come up with a solution that solves all the trouble DC travel is causing while keeping the service active then great, but there has been zero indication that's on the way or even possible, so the only solution that will fully solve the problem is to turn off the service until such time as they figure it out.

I really do feel for Dynamis, and I hope it does get on its feet eventually. The travel system right now is not helping it at all, but I also don't want people to feel trapped on Dynamis either when the population is low. We just need a better system, and I hope a lot of this feedback is being considered and being taken into account. I don't want people to think its "fine" or its "working as intended" when there is lot of cons to the travel system. It 100% can be improved, and that is what I am rooting for.

I'm confident that without DC travel Dynamis would level out and grow naturally over time as typically happens in any popular MMO. How long that would take however is anyone's guess, especially after people have been socially engineered by the current situation to perceive it as dead. Had DC travel never existed in the first place Dynamis would be thriving.