I am an OCE player who enjoys playing on low latency, but the one way travel system that has trapped us here isn't helping me feel like I want to stay here.
Currently due to population consensus, we can only really do daily Frontline at 5pm AEST and at no other time, if I'm even 40 minutes late I will probably just miss out on being able to do it at all. Crystal Conflict also doesn't seem to pop.
I can't continue my Shadowbringers relic questline in Bozja because Delubrum Reginae doesn't pop. Most content has to be started in PF because people don't use Duty Finder. This Data Center is a prison, much like how Australia was founded, as a prison colony, it seems like some kind of insane joke that they've recreated these circumstances.
This restriction that stops us from traveling isn't helping us, I don't want to leave OCE, I enjoy it here, but I have content I need to get done and if it isn't absolutely current, I can't do it on OCE, I COULD hop over to NA, or even JP and get it done pretty quickly and then come home, and suddenly I wouldn't be so bothered by it.
I understand the decision, they thought that if they allowed us to DC travel that OCE would just die, I don't think it would, I think forcing us onto OCE with no option for travel is what will eventually kill OCE.
The low latency is really nice, raiding here is pretty good sometimes! but when I can't complete content due to a strict time window or because people simply aren't doing it, I start to think "playing full time with 200 ping doesn't seem so bad because I'll be somewhere that allows me to complete content".
I love OCE, it'll never be as busy as other Data Centers and that's okay, but for the love of Hydaelyn please let us travel to other DCs, I just want to be able to hop over to NA or JP sometimes to get things done and then come back home to the low latency, that's all.
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Currently due to population consensus, we can only really do daily Frontline at 5pm AEST and at no other time, if I'm even 40 minutes late I will probably just miss out on being able to do it at all. Crystal Conflict also doesn't seem to pop.
I can't continue my Shadowbringers relic questline in Bozja because Delubrum Reginae doesn't pop. Most content has to be started in PF because people don't use Duty Finder. This Data Center is a prison, much like how Australia was founded, as a prison colony, it seems like some kind of insane joke that they've recreated these circumstances.
This restriction that stops us from traveling isn't helping us, I don't want to leave OCE, I enjoy it here, but I have content I need to get done and if it isn't absolutely current, I can't do it on OCE, I COULD hop over to NA, or even JP and get it done pretty quickly and then come home, and suddenly I wouldn't be so bothered by it.
I understand the decision, they thought that if they allowed us to DC travel that OCE would just die, I don't think it would, I think forcing us onto OCE with no option for travel is what will eventually kill OCE.
The low latency is really nice, raiding here is pretty good sometimes! but when I can't complete content due to a strict time window or because people simply aren't doing it, I start to think "playing full time with 200 ping doesn't seem so bad because I'll be somewhere that allows me to complete content".
I love OCE, it'll never be as busy as other Data Centers and that's okay, but for the love of Hydaelyn please let us travel to other DCs, I just want to be able to hop over to NA or JP sometimes to get things done and then come back home to the low latency, that's all.
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