I'm thinking about transfering to Primal or Crystal just because of that. Dynamis is a failure, Data Center travel murdered it entirely. There's barely any people on the cities and the housing districts look like ghost towns. Why does it matter to have a house if I don't have any neighboors? The only thing keeping me there is the people of my FC, which are really nice, but that may not be enough. I want players in my MMO, I don't like feeling like I'm playing a dead game.
I gave up on trying to play ranked PVP on Dynamis
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06-13-2023, 02:49 AMVandsoI gave up on trying to play ranked PVP on Dynamis
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06-13-2023, 02:50 AMOizen
Dynamis wont even start to have an active playerbase until 7.0 at the earliest, if that bothers you then you should probably transfer.
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06-13-2023, 03:14 AMArcheron
Sounds like you dont understand Dynamis. Adios! Many people prefer the smaller community it has to offer, less ERP venues infesting our party finder, less drama, less of a queue during prime time. DC travel takes 30 seconds, I don't find it to be a problem when I want to do daily roulettes. Sounds like a populated server is more your style if you want a vibrant community.
I have bad news for you, your neighbours in your primal/aether/crystal houses are just as non existent as they are on Dynamis. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen people in my FC wards in Shiro or Mist on Famfrit/Cactuar. The housing districts are also ghost towns because submarine farming FC bots with 8 houses per accounts decided to buy up all the real estate they could in FC wards, and as far as personal housing goes... Turns out most people just wanted to own a house for the clout, and ended up just not decorating it. Or they decorated it, and ignored it for 45 days - The 3 medium houses in my mist ward have now all been demolished for their second time in a row. -
06-13-2023, 03:17 AMValkyrie_Lenneth
DC travel was a mistake.
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06-13-2023, 03:40 AMAbsurdityIt's the usual case of "nice idea in concept, but apparently nobody took 5 minutes to think of all the negative consequences".Quote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth
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06-13-2023, 03:40 AMXaruko_Nexume
Dynamis has been a fascinating experiment. I came over from Primal with my main on day 1. Can't say I don't love it here. I do. It's got its problems. Alliance raids are near non-existent. My SO and I queue together as tank and healer and still have 30+ wait. Change to DPS, same, doesn't matter. And ranked CC? Yeah, OP right. Its non-existent. Also EVERYTHING on the marketboard is often 10x more costly than other data centers/servers.
Other than that I think its great. There are still plenty of people in cities and out in the world. Novice network is popping. I now have my third house (ive moved three times) because housing is still relatively easy here but filling up rapidly.
Party finder is full of people needing help with dungeons and MSQ which im pretty sure is quite odd. But groups fill fast with players willing to help. Always someone in Novice network needing help and they often get it from 3, 4 or more people. Its a super strong tight knit small community where you see the same names and faces all the time, and I love it. I don't want to play any other way.
its really got that old school EQ mmo vibe where everyone gotta work together and I think thats a positive. -
06-13-2023, 04:00 AMArdeth100% it's good in concept, but when you're trying to build a server community, maybe you shouldn't give people the ability to queue on servers that aren't their home world. Really any kind of restriction or bonus to staying on your DC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth
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06-13-2023, 04:04 AMVandso
The thing that bothers me the most is the inability to play ranked PVP in other servers. Using Data Center travel all the time is annoying, but at least solves the other problems.
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06-13-2023, 04:06 AMArdethThat's my issue as well. I don't want to have to constantly leave to get things done because their game is dead on my DC. I'd be fine going somewhere else because this experience is lesser, but I have friends and an FC. I don't want to abandon them, but this place is dead. If I wasn't constrained, I would be gone from this place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vandso
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06-13-2023, 04:17 AMNav_FaeThis is unironically an understatement. Starting a brand new FC is harder than ever when nobody is home.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth
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06-13-2023, 04:22 AMThaCaIt's an issue to lesser extent on some other DCs depending on the Season and time. Last Season I missed the early rush on my Light character and tried to queue around the day during the last week and only got like 3 games on the very last day before servers went down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vandso
The shorter seasons are extremely dead outside of the initial rush and the longer ones will start to decay after few weeks unless there has been raid tier and other content that delayed the regulars from playing. At least the longer ones tend to be slightly active towards the end.
I'm fairly sure they aren't doing much about it as long as the JP players have their queues pop with no issues. Supposedly they can even play Rival Wings without having to go out of their way to organize the matches. -
06-13-2023, 04:26 AMAvoidy
I remember when Dynamis opened. Nowhere did it say "come here if you want a dead DC experience!" Nowhere did it even say "curb your expectations! This place will be dead af for a couple of years." Rather, dynamis in the beginning... was sort of popping off. Does anyone else remember it? The place was jam packed with people. Either people who'd moved there recently, or people starting new characters for the leveling campaign exclusive to that DC, or travelers just checking it out. I went and checked the limsa on seraph, and it was hype as hell. People on other boards were talking about how dynamis was going to be big, and how they were excited to spearhead the creation of a new DC. Venue organizers were making plans to buy a home as soon as possible to get the club scene started. The RPers unofficially said Seraph was their guy and that world became known as the unofficial social hub. It looked good. For about a week.
Then everyone there realized that actually spearheading a new community is time consuming and really difficult so they all came running back to crystal, aether, and primal. The economy was a shitshow so people bought their goods from crystal, aether, and primal. And the housing situation, which seemed to make it all worth the effort, was sorta negated when square went and gave more wards to crystal, aether, and primal shortly after. When SE finally allowed dynasissies to transfer off, a ton of them took the plunge because holy shit imagine trying to sell goods on a DC with no players.
Anyway, now we're in the present and people are really acting like OP should've seen this coming a mile away. Oh no no no. Dynamis players should be handed a free ticket out and an apology imo. They got sooooooo fucking played, and the only consolation they have is "at least I'm not on Materia.'' Do NOT get me wrong though. If you're in this thread and you genuinely enjoy playing on a dead barren empty af world and having to dc travel to get anything done, then by all means you keep living that best life. -
06-13-2023, 04:31 AMElfidan
Yeah, I decided to play around in ranked mid-season last season and there just wasn't anyone between plat and diamond to play with. That was on primal. The problem with pvp ranked is much larger than just DC transfer. Our casual pops instantly but ranked is about 5 minutes for about 12 or so hours a day from evening till about early morning. That amounts to what 4-5 hours of potential matches for responsible adults? The whole thing is a mistake in its execution.
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06-13-2023, 06:28 AMArcheronAn apology? For what? Mild inconviences? Give me a break.Quote:
Originally Posted by Avoidy
Oh dear we need to spend 30 seconds out of our day to DC travel for shopping, alliance roulette, and PvP. Truly a tragedy, it's inhumane. Not to mention how I struggle to sell... Oh wait. I don't struggle to sell items here.
Most people don't care about Ranked PvP. I don't do ranked PvP on my main, I don't really care about its rewards. Go ask people on any DC what they think of PvP. You'll get the same response, most players think it sucks and its not a big deal to them. Nobody on Dynamis is really losing anything by being here except a small minority of rankers.
The community on Dynamis is small, and slowly growing. The only mistake they made was launching Dynamis during an FFXIV mid expansion population decline. They should have launched it closer to 7.0 launch. You know its convient the people who complain about Dynamis typically end up being from OTHER DC's. This complaining does not happen on Dynamis, so by all means pack your bags and leave if you don't like what a small community has to offer. I'm sure Balmung has a nice big Limsa full of AFK people you would probably ignore. -
06-13-2023, 08:36 AMKyrjThis will surely help the Dynamis problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oizen