And learning, for the first time, that the physical data centers are completely isolated from each other.
They really shouldn't fucking call them 'physical/logical' data centers. They should call them something else, because it's extremely dishonest and misleading to call it data center travel, when you're not travelling between physical data centers, just the """data centers""" within them.
Only one should be Data Center. The other should be something else. If Physical Data Centers are what people typically refer to as DCs, then the Logical Data Centers should be 'Data Shards' or something. Vice versa, if LDCs are what people refer to as DCs, then PDCs should be called 'Regions' or something.
Sharing the name is shitty as fuck, and I'm just now realising that I'm basically entirely isolated from a majority of the global FFXIV community without making a new character. :<<<<