Why is Aether locked if less players than EW? LET ME IN

[SophiaDL]

It's to throttle people from dogpiling one DC. It has nothing to do with the overall player population.




Before the restrictions that number was zero at all hours of the day.




The game being dead on every DC outside of Aether is not "working great." The entire reason the restrictions were put in place was because swaths of the game were nigh unplayable if you were anywhere else.

Yeah because people totally dont go there on off-peak hours and park their characters there.

Also lol @ the game being dead on every DC minus aether, every game has dedicated servers, WoW also had specific servers for specific content and hell even specific factions, many other MMO's have such things, people always dogpile on specific servers for X or X thing, this isnt an FFXIV thing nor is it abnormal, but thankfully SE managed to convince you that people wanting to play with others is not a normal thing to want.

Primal has PVP, Crystal has RP, Aether has content, the only servers that dont really have a "focus" are on Dynamis because it's very much dead.

EU also has the same, Light is for content and Chaos is more laidback and is basically just people hanging out.

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[Hanayumi]

Hopefully they are actually working on a proper regional pf/df. I understand they said 3+ years, but at this point, with nearly dead DCs and overcrowded DCs, this should be 1 of the top priority things to implement if not the #1 thing.

[Ardeth]

It's something we brought up when it was announced, but SquareEnix, in their ignorance, released it without a safty net. And now we're here. I've lost patience with players dumb enough to cause problems for themselves.

Now, if it was me, I'd shut that shit down. You'd have to do everything that causes lockouts on your home server. Close Aether because y'all will just keep dog piling onto it like lemmings off the cliff. Give really good incentives to play on the other 3 servers.

It started with good intentions, and then people abused it. "Break" it and leave it broken until you can remove it from being an issue.

Sincerely, a player who told you this feature would kill communities before it was released. Multiple times. You reap what you sow. Now fix your shit.

[CidHeiral]

It started with good intentions, and then people abused it. "Break" it and leave it broken until you can remove it from being an issue.

Totally agree.

[Luca_]

It's something we brought up when it was announced, but SquareEnix, in their ignorance, released it without a safty net. And now we're here. I've lost patience with players dumb enough to cause problems for themselves.

Now, if it was me, I'd shut that shit down. You'd have to do everything that causes lockouts on your home server. Close Aether because y'all will just keep dog piling onto it like lemmings off the cliff. Give really good incentives to play on the other 3 servers.

Unfortunately higher end content is like... actually genuinely unplayable on other DCs now. I saw this coming when it was introduced and kept raiding on Primal as long as I could, but these days you're pretty much forced to go to Aether if you're anywhere later in the tier than fresh M5/M6 or your groups will literally never fill.

I just want DC travel to be disabled completely. It's done nothing but hurt the game. Primal is so dead compared to Aether (not only PFs, just go look at the difference between people idling in town) and it's only getting worse as time goes on.

[SophiaDL]

Totally agree.

You agree, meanwhile you can just pay money to transfer to Aether

Make it make sense ? What would be the difference if all those raiders stuck in other DC's with no dc travel to aether just server transferred there ? Oh they paid money so that makes it much better, okay then.

[TaleraRistain]

As far as I'm aware they haven't locked anything down. These just weren't kicking in because people were staying on their own DCs. Then Savage dropped and everyone started crowding Aether again.

Heck, I even had a couple minute wait Sunday coming back to Jenova from Adamantoise. This happens to us every time new endgame content drops.

[Volgia]

It's why the solution of a cross-server PF will come in 11.0

[Gember]

Primal has PVP, Crystal has RP, Aether has content, the only servers that dont really have a "focus" are on Dynamis because it's very much dead.

I am going to be honest here, I really dislike that the community "labeled" the datacenters, because every datacenter was doing all 3 of those things before DC travel came in. Both Aether and Primal have their own RP scene. All 3 DCs could do PvP, raiding varied, but all 3 DCs could do it. (Crystal's ultimate scene was sprouting just a tiny bit before DC travel uprooted it.) Dynamis will be no different if it has a chance to get on its feet. What makes a working DC is everything the game can offer, and not just one piece of it.

Some focus on some things a little more, but it was all there for the most part. I just wish we could not label them based off their popular activity. It really doesn't help the new players who come in without a shred of knowledge of the communities and just get lumped into a group based off where they made their character, or worse; can't play a lot of the game due to it.

We really should stop with the labeling. Datacenters are communities; not playgrounds for one particular activity.