The Dynamis Problem and Potential Solutions

[Miradelle]

The bandaid aka DC travel has been a massive failure due to ppl just crowding aether for everything. But putting quick and easy solutions into the game with little forethought, next to no testing and a complete lack of understanding on how game communities work is kinda par for the course in this game.

If they actually want to fix the problem they need to just pull the plug on dc travel and force everyone back to their home dc until they can come up with a better solution. But I also understand that this will never happen. "meh, it's good enough" feels like the new "please look forward to it"

This won't work in the current state of the game, unless you want raiders to literally transfer off of their DCs to Aether. There's simply not enough people playing this game, at least on NA, for there to be healthy amount of groups for the raiding/extreme scene. What they'd need to do is consolidate servers so that there's a lot more people on each server, or make cross DC party finder that automatically sends the party to a dedicated cross-world server.

Right now, the best system is to let everyone just go to Aether, so people don't need to wait hours and hours for a group that never fills. However, they screwed even this over by locking Aether .. so ironically enough, what you suggested is sort of already in play, and it has just made things worse--everyone just LIVES on Aether now by logging in at early hours and never leaving.

[Alicie]

This won't work in the current state of the game, unless you want raiders to literally transfer off of their DCs to Aether. There's simply not enough people playing this game, at least on NA, for there to be healthy amount of groups for the raiding/extreme scene. What they'd need to do is consolidate servers so that there's a lot more people on each server, or make cross DC party finder that automatically sends the party to a dedicated cross-world server.

Right now, the best system is to let everyone just go to Aether, so people don't need to wait hours and hours for a group that never fills. However, they screwed even this over by locking Aether .. so ironically enough, what you suggested is sort of already in play, and it has just made things worse--everyone just LIVES on Aether now by logging in at early hours and never leaving.

Why half-measures are even being discussed?
Are we assuming that Square Enix is completely incapable of creating cross-dc pf and df in a timely manner?
Other studios manage to do it, why SE can't?
Maybe we should demand - and demand really hard - that they reroute their revenue back into game, hire programmers and make it happen?