not enjoying the game because dynamis is dead

Basically title, also almost everyone I met so far is so rude in this game since I started in 2019

. I have no friends on dynamis and have to go to aether or crystal to do almost anything just to play with more passive aggressive people. Like just be rude to my face please.
Why should I have to spend money to solve a problem yoshi created?
I’m going to bed, have fun laughing at my rant, I’m just over it all

It's really strange that they kicked you from a map party, but I've never experienced that myself ever. The fact they even posted coordinates for you would suggest they didn't have a problem with you, but maybe they had others they wanted to invite suddenly (such as FC members) or maybe they'd opened the map too early.

That doesn't really relate to Dynamis though.

Dynamis will stay dead, the only solution is to transfer, the game isnt growing anymore and hasnt been for a long time, some people come back for patches and leave less than a month in, the cycle just repeats but there arent that many new players and a lot are not interested in a dead DC.

They should either accommodate these servers in other existing ones or just close them altogether and giving free transfers to existing dynamis residents .
But I don't see op problem relating to server

it's dynamis it's dead and will never fill even with the Xbox player showing up it barely help I moved out once transfer were possible. Because after a month in DT I knew all que would get horrible fast and I was right! I don't think it's question of how rude people are I just think you were filling a role until other showed up still should have said tho but ya try moving to a other server might help

Make Dynamis the Materia / Oceania of NA.
This would probably fix everything - It would allow EU players to play with NA players on their main accounts (or even international players from Elemental who wanted to play with an English speaking population).

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Originally Posted by missTori

Basically title, also almost everyone I met so far is so rude in this game since I started in 2019

. I have no friends on dynamis and have to go to aether or crystal to do almost anything just to play with more passive aggressive people. Like just be rude to my face please.
Why should I have to spend money to solve a problem yoshi created?
I’m going to bed, have fun laughing at my rant, I’m just over it all

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Your far from alone. Just the people who agree with you have left. At least you left before you became passive aggressive by default unlike me. I've become not so much passive aggressive, but just passive. I just... can't... be... bothered. I'll leave if I viscerally just can't handle another unbalanced LoA. I'll just silently lurch my way through, if I get another guildhest with no sprouts in my mentor - all for tomes that are pointless - because it takes so long to accumulate enough to gear my alt job that the high end content will be over, and stretching out my opportunities to prog EX4 without a clear means I'm just bored and don't care.

In fact I'm going to finally say it for myself for the first time.
You should leave.
But not because it's 'not for you'.
It's just because it's become an unfun game.
Yes there is a subculture that has created their own meta-game outside the game, (QoL add-ons, guides, parsing, RP-addon-social, savage-social) and they enjoy that. But if we are taking the game itself, unfun. For you it's a dead DC. (Not the only hobbled DC), but there are a myriad of other issues you could bump into that take away from the fun. And CB3 already has a plan to change nothing too much really.
Let's face it there are infinite opportunities to create fun with the limitless creativity developing software allows. So it's not just a dead DC you are leaving for.
Your not alone in the sentiment.

Have you not found an fc or fellowship or static? I'd start there. I always see recruitment for fcs. Also it seems people from other servers use dynamis as a venue. So there are a lot of opportunities to be social and make friends who will run the game with you.

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Originally Posted by Gurgeh

Your far from alone. Just the people who agree with you have left. At least you left before you became passive aggressive by default unlike me. I've become not so much passive aggressive, but just passive. I just... can't... be... bothered. I'll leave if I viscerally just can't handle another unbalanced LoA. I'll just silently lurch my way through, if I get another guildhest with no sprouts in my mentor - all for tomes that are pointless - because it takes so long to accumulate enough to gear my alt job that the high end content will be over, and stretching out my opportunities to prog EX4 without a clear means I'm just bored and don't care.

In fact I'm going to finally say it for myself for the first time.
You should leave.
But not because it's 'not for you'.
It's just because it's become an unfun game.
Yes there is a subculture that has created their own meta-game outside the game, (QoL add-ons, guides, parsing, RP-addon-social, savage-social) and they enjoy that. But if we are taking the game itself, unfun. For you it's a dead DC. (Not the only hobbled DC), but there are a myriad of other issues you could bump into that take away from the fun. And CB3 already has a plan to change nothing too much really.
Let's face it there are infinite opportunities to create fun with the limitless creativity developing software allows. So it's not just a dead DC you are leaving for.
Your not alone in the sentiment.

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Tbh it wasn't just the map thing, that was really the tip of the iceberg.

Last night I was thinking that I don't enjoy the newer harder fights in this game anymore. I think my favorite extreme has been Hells kier. It just felt like that fight and older ones like God Kefka had more care when they designed it. Positioning the phoenix adds so they don't get revived, getting the damage buffs from the arrows, not falling off in p2, and watching the phoenix go around the arena exploding platforms based on color. The fights were more engaging without being information overload like Everkeep where you have to look at 4 different squares and solve 3 mental puzzles before you get 1 shot. Not to mention the absolute bloom light/laser overload of every fight now. It's just too much for my autistic brain.

There have been a few exceptions, like car titan savage. That was a lot of fun, I liked the uplift mechanic, but almost everything since then has been healer stack, buddies, wacky safe spot... I don't know if it's because jobs were different for stormblood raids. Now we have super simple jobs but 100 levels into the game, I guess this is the direction they are going with fight design.

Worqor has mountain fire which is probably the most fun reflex kind of thing you could do in a raid, but due to ping some people have problems with that mechanic. (It's where the serpent goes side-to-side very fast, and you have to run in front of him to avoid the aoe) It's also engaging for the tanks to swap tank buster, because it gives the player something that they CAN do. But even if we wanted reflex-based action, I don't think the game could handle it.

Yes, i should transfer to find a new fc. I actually applied to one on midgardsormr community finder, but then all of Aether got blocked before i could transfer. Something about the way yoshi refuses to admit any wrong with the way he's handled travel rubs me the wrong way. I think this is a very Japanese PR thing and likely many others have left the game by now because of weird decisions.

older fight feel better then the new one and that I will agree with the reason why I actually stopped doing high end content. It just doesn't feel the same at all my favorite is susano the reason number one I picked up a tank too!

Honestly, this whole game is like this. Granted, I am on Dynamis as well, but I've been on different datacenters recently as a player, and it's just socially dead. I joined FC after FC, and I just feel like nobody actually plays this game or enjoys playing it. They can't be. Whenever you interact with them, they're misrable. When you're in their FC's, they don't interact with you at all. Nobody plays together, and it just feels like any social aspect I could get from this game is a corpse in its grave. And why? Why is this game so anti-social? You'd think a broken clock is right twice a day. I'd find something like anything resembling people who enjoy playing this game, and you'd be wrong. I've spent the better part of 3 or 4 years looking. Failed attempt to failed attempt.

I hate y'all. I really, really hate y'all. You talk it up. Everyone loves you, and you got all these friends, but where are they? I'm certainly not finding them. And I'm at my whits' end.

I'm currently in an FC. Nice people can't fault them, but they are never ever on. Decent folks, but I didn't join their FC to interact only with them on Discord. I'm tired of it. How hard is it to find people who want to run regular raids, alliance raids, roulettes, treasure maps, or pvp? It feels impossible.

Anyway, that's my rant about it. I can't leave until May 20th, and honestly, what's the point?

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Originally Posted by missTori

Basically title, also almost everyone I met so far is so rude in this game since I started in 2019

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This is pretty much MMO in general, bit more widespread in games like WoW or XIV. Best communities I can recall as an MMO gamer is City of Heroes & FFXI. PSO2 was somewhere in between WoW/XIV & CoH/XI.

DCUO had the best raid community because no one ever talked, but got the job done with A1 efficiency. IT was like mute intercourse or something.......

I really can't see Dynamis ever filling up given that it hasn't already.

Why don't people from this message board start a FC on Dynamis?

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Originally Posted by Gurgeh

Your far from alone. Just the people who agree with you have left. At least you left before you became passive aggressive by default unlike me. I've become not so much passive aggressive, but just passive. I just... can't... be... bothered. I'll leave if I viscerally just can't handle another unbalanced LoA. I'll just silently lurch my way through, if I get another guildhest with no sprouts in my mentor - all for tomes that are pointless - because it takes so long to accumulate enough to gear my alt job that the high end content will be over, and stretching out my opportunities to prog EX4 without a clear means I'm just bored and don't care.

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It's apathy, which is much more effective at permanently driving people away from a game than something like hatred. One of the only correct things Bungie's executives ever said is that apathy will kill your game, and Dawntrail has been very effective at inspiring apathy.

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Originally Posted by Anienai

Why don't people from this message board start a FC on Dynamis?

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Clearly they're missing the 3 signatures required to start a new FC :v

Making a new DC when there’s cross-DC travel but no cross-DC Duty Finder, Party Finder, or communication was a mistake.

And with how it can be challenging for people to find a FC that suits them, we really shouldn’t be restricted to FCs on our character’s home world. Ideally cross-DC functionality would be good enough that it would be viable to join one on a different DC as well.

Last time I let my guard down and started talking with somebody for real was like 2 years ago in Eureka. 5 minutes in he told me that he’s high on drugs/xanax. Yeah, go figure. Haven’t talked with anyone since other than hey, bye, go, yes, no.

Bottom line: just play WoW or go solo.

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Originally Posted by Aidorouge

Ha, yeah, the three FCs I was in on Maduin was much the same. Would rarely catch anyone in-game doing anything, but their FC Discords were always popping while I was in-game. The few times there was anyone around, it was all high-end raiding or RP, neither of which I did, so I started to feel like I was just there to generate company credits (not that I needed any of the the buffs). Throw in company chest and workshop access needing to be tightly controlled (for good reason unfortunately), never having a reason to go to the FC house, AND needing to data center hop all the time anyway for the group content I was doing and it just made being in a FC pointless after awhile.

Eventually I made my own solo one, if for no other reason than to stop getting invites to others, and I guess some day airships and submarines will pay off.

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It's just depressing. I've been on both Aether and Crystal recently to play with friends who have since quit, but it's all the same. There is no right choice anymore. And if the biggest DC and the most casual one didn't fix my problem, I don't see Primal being my fix. I might just go away. Someone who's been playing since the closed beta in 2013 just quiting. All because the game got too damn anti-social, rude, or apathetic. Either way, it's a joke.

I try my best every day to make or join PFs on Dynamis, play music for people, interact with people, and especially help the rare new players over on Seraph, but it certainly is difficult. FC recruitment is slow going, though that could also be my own fault, lol! I don't know what the best solution is, but if there's enough people in here all saying the same thing, then perhaps we ought to try to get in contact and organize things together! Maybe I'm being overly hopeful, here, but, eh, worth a try x)

They really need to split Dynamis up and shuffle the servers into other DCs. Kinda similar to the Japanese server shuffle they did last year (at least I think it was last year). Honestly take like 3 servers away from Aether and Crystal and slap them on Dynamis.

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Originally Posted by CamuiKushi

They really need to split Dynamis up and shuffle the servers into other DCs. Kinda similar to the Japanese server shuffle they did last year (at least I think it was last year). Honestly take like 3 servers away from Aether and Crystal and slap them on Dynamis.

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Yeah lets force people on a DC they dont want to be on, what could go wrong with that idea

I think as a datacenter, it needs a shot in the arm. The issue is if you reward people for queing at home, you breed the very same thing that ruined the mentor program. So how do you do it? You could force people and put restrictions on traveling, but that would just be punishing the wrong kind of player and wouldn't work. So what should we do? That player never once thought about the server's health. They only cared about themselves, and it shows. Now we're all hypocrites we'd have to be just to do basic things, so I'm not calling anyone out in particular. I'm just stating the facts at hand. I travel to pvp once a day and go back. I tried to fill PF groups and queues, and I genuinely wanted Dynamis to succeed, but I'm as I said earlier at my whits' end. I've done all I can while SquareEnix tells us they're working on it in the same nebulous way they always tell us they're working on it while tripling down on cash shop items and collaborations outside of the game for more money. Milking the game dry and barely giving anything back. We're getting new content, but it's not enough. Clearly, it isn't because the same issues still persist and the same complaints are still being voiced.

SquareEnix, at this point, deserves to have this game continue its downward trend. And all of us are going to have to suffer believing in people who only care about money. Until then, it will stay dead. And it will stay hopeless. And why should we pay the same amount for less?

Fuck SquareEnix. There I said it.

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Originally Posted by Ardeth

It's just depressing. I've been on both Aether and Crystal recently to play with friends who have since quit, but it's all the same. There is no right choice anymore. And if the biggest DC and the most casual one didn't fix my problem, I don't see Primal being my fix. I might just go away. Someone who's been playing since the closed beta in 2013 just quiting. All because the game got too damn anti-social, rude, or apathetic. Either way, it's a joke.

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Kinda? I've been on 3 DC on NA and now semi-retired on Aether with my solo FC. I'm still playing FFXIV b/c I like the game since all my friends don't have PCs or into MMOs anymore. If I meet nice random ppl, then it's great, if I end up doing more solo content, then it's fine too.

If I wanted to socialize more, there was always going to be LL, big FC, Discord, or even LS available. I'm not sure if others are looking for a stranger to invite them to groups or events; we have that in PF now, too.

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Originally Posted by SophiaDL

Yeah lets force people on a DC they dont want to be on, what could go wrong with that idea

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People don't want to be on there because there's no player population. People don't want to leave their FCs/friends/houses/etc. behind, which is perfectly reasonable. If they moved multiple servers to Dynamis and vice versa it would solve the population problem without people having to give up the things that tie you to a specific server.

So yeah, I don't see what could go wrong with that, but if I'm missing something please lay it on me. I'd like to know.

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Originally Posted by CamuiKushi

People don't want to be on there because there's no player population. People don't want to leave their FCs/friends/houses/etc. behind, which is perfectly reasonable. If they moved multiple servers to Dynamis and vice versa it would solve the population problem without people having to give up the things that tie you to a specific server.

So yeah, I don't see what could go wrong with that, but if I'm missing something please lay it on me. I'd like to know.

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People don't want to leave Aether's PF for raiding along with friends, houses, and FC.

I just want to point out that a few months ago seraph was declared a congested world. And I've seen over 400 players on hali for the cosmic exploration fates. Also I typically don't have an issue queuing as dps. sometimes it's slow sometimes not. I also want to add that there is a group that do pvp q sync on specific days because without any organization it would never pop. There are groups doing deep dungeons, hunt trains, fate farms, mount farms(excluding endwalker and dawntrail), and field operations(including the optional difficult/savage content). And this is all happening on dynamis. I can't promise you'll find friends there, as(at least to me) these groups are helpful in doing content but they're kind of cliquey. I could be wrong but that's the vibe I get. But what they organize is helpful for people wanting to do cooperative content. So it's really not as dead as you think.