I Hope We Don't Have To Wait Too Long For Final Fantasy 14's Physical Data Center Travel

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Final Fantasy 14 players are still riding the high from the recent Patch 6.1 content drop, which added new main scenario quests, the Crystalline Conflict PvP mode, Adventurer Plates, and many other shiny new things. There is so much to be excited about, as well as one particular thing to be disappointed with — I’m looking at you, Housing Lottery System — but I can’t help but already look forward to the next big thing awaiting us on the horizon.

I’m talking about Data Center Travel, of course. We’ve been promised that this will launch as part of Patch 6.18, so hopefully, we won’t be waiting too much longer. However, I’m already aware this won’t be the travel system I truly desire when it arrives. Once introduced, players will be able to visit Worlds in other Logical Data Centers, but only as long as they are within the same Physical Data Center as their homeworld. What this means is that you’re still restricted to visiting the Data Centers within your own region, so as my main character is on the Ragnarok server on Chaos Data Center, I’ll be restricted to visiting the other European Data Centers only. Not so cool, huh?

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Square Enix has said that the new Data Center Travel system has been designed to allow for cross-region travel, but due to difficulties in terms of different in-game economies and values, this will be limited at first. Still, Square Enix will be paying attention to player opinion as to whether wider travel is introduced later down the line. It seems likely that the community will push to have cross-region travel, but when we’ll actually get it is another matter entirely.

I appreciate that we need that testing period where