Feedback about Data center travel July 2025

[Infindox]

Unfortunately its a failed experiment, and it also punishes people who want to use the MB or go to a hunt.

I actually think that Hunts should have been kept for your DC only, but that's a topic for another time.
But yes you are right.

[VerumNaos]

I still will always say them doing this lock is an over correction.

[Kohashi]

They should just either enable Cross Data PF. I would personally just merge both data centers into a Super Data Center. Keep every "server" but make it one Data center. You can still preserve your house, your FC, access your retainers, you can still travel, and also, PF will be just 1.

[ForteNightshade]

Make a PF on Crystal, be the change you want to see.

Might even give you some more options (e.g., strats that aren't the traditional speedrun-go-brrr risky Aether strategies. Maybe you can bring the JP strats which are generally regarded as more consistent and cozy for getting reliable PUG clears here, I would LOVE to see a datacenter on Western side pick up JP style strats so I can have a haven away from the hyper-competition without having to wait months or years till I've learned Japanese well enough to play on Mana!)

How about instead of suggesting players fix a problem SE created due to their severe lack of foresight, we demand better from the company we're paying a subscription fee to? It isn't as if people haven't tried to put up parties either. They rarely fill because people don't want to wait around for over an hour when they can hop to Aether and have 30 parties to choose from. Even if that means logging in at 3am just to sneak under the congestion restriction. It's still better despite losing access to your retainers and house.

With that aside, you will never see NA adopt JP strats. Not only is it already a huge ask just getting people to raid outside Aether, you're not going to spring a strat on them that nobody else uses in our region? That's doomed to fail before it even gets off the ground.

I still will always say them doing this lock is an over correction.

The lock made sense when Dawntrail launched if only as a precautionary measure after the disaster that was Endwalker. So I get it from that perspective. Keeping indefinitely is where they've overcorrected to the point it's actively hurting the community.