And it doesn't involve merges, lockdowns, or a cross-DC feature the developers are powerless to conceive. Just do the same thing they already do with Ranked PVP and rotate access to the party finder onto specific data centers "per season". Yes, the whole party finder, so that includes everything in the "Other" tab too because why not.
People always complaining about how Square-Enix needs to do something for us, because we can't be trusted to disperse and shatter our own self-inflicted community labels, so let's have them exert the power we know they have (to disable access to a feature data center-wide) and see what happens for a few months.
People can counter all they want that there's not that many people playing anymore, that congestion is a scam, and the gates should be blown wide open for anyone and everyone to keep traveling and transferring into Aether while other data centers languish for getting certain content done, but its pretty obvious by now that Square-Enix isn't going to budge on their "world population balancing initiative" and the more people keep pushing against them, the more often and longer they'll keep throwing up those gates because they're not going to accommodate us for a problem we gave ourselves, doubly so if it really IS a bad thing to just let people endlessly flow into Aether unmitigated. Their may truly be reasons beyond just trying to pretend the game is "too populated".
So they should stop wagging the finger already and grab the belt instead because I honest to god don't think anything short of forcing people to remember that party finder works on other data centers will ever make us stop. And let's be honest... it would be pretty funny to watch people cope with the idea that no one world was ever intended to be the Source of the FF14 universe and that you can in fact enjoy the entire game beyond Aether.
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People always complaining about how Square-Enix needs to do something for us, because we can't be trusted to disperse and shatter our own self-inflicted community labels, so let's have them exert the power we know they have (to disable access to a feature data center-wide) and see what happens for a few months.
People can counter all they want that there's not that many people playing anymore, that congestion is a scam, and the gates should be blown wide open for anyone and everyone to keep traveling and transferring into Aether while other data centers languish for getting certain content done, but its pretty obvious by now that Square-Enix isn't going to budge on their "world population balancing initiative" and the more people keep pushing against them, the more often and longer they'll keep throwing up those gates because they're not going to accommodate us for a problem we gave ourselves, doubly so if it really IS a bad thing to just let people endlessly flow into Aether unmitigated. Their may truly be reasons beyond just trying to pretend the game is "too populated".
So they should stop wagging the finger already and grab the belt instead because I honest to god don't think anything short of forcing people to remember that party finder works on other data centers will ever make us stop. And let's be honest... it would be pretty funny to watch people cope with the idea that no one world was ever intended to be the Source of the FF14 universe and that you can in fact enjoy the entire game beyond Aether.
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