How do you think the new DC community is going to be like?

[ForteNightshade]

Really? I am actually expecting a lot of people to move for the housing alone, and the housing lotto to have multiple bids even in the small plots. I think the wards might fill up fairly quickly

While possible, most people prioritize their current connections over a house. Speaking for myself even, I considered moving my main but have several friends here. Not to mention the raid scene on Aether will be infinitely better. Sure, I could just hop back over but that sort of defeats the purpose of transferring.

[Shibi]

My guess is that the feel is going to be quiet, a small country town, and a lot of alt-sprouts. People willing to stock the marketboard will make a lot of gil in the first weeks from the Lazy Tax.

Housing crowd will be there, and will be a substantial portion of the initial players, but they won't fill the servers. There will also be people gawking and checking it out. (I think we see a distorted view of housing on the OF - real demand likely isn't as great as the hullabaloo here suggests.)

In a month there will be a few wards with FCs all bearing the same name, and the associated salt here on the OF, despite there being thousands of empty plots.

Mostly, though it will feel like NA already does. Same underground bard-bots. Same Chat spam in Cities. Most people speaking English. Dungeons starting with Meowdy or Hi, then silent. NA strats used.

(Plus a few who move and regret it, and moan constantly how they can't wait to move back for 90 days).

[ReynTime]

If I had to guess, itll be pretty barren. Just gotta look at OCE and how that went. People were asking for it for years and now it's so quiet (apparently) they're struggling to do things due to ridiculous queue times. I dont really see a point in moving world when that's the case, but then again I'm not really bothered about housing

That's because contrary to what this forum kept saying, the number of OCE players, let alone those who wanted to migrate, was always very small.
There are more English speaking latin american players than there ever were from oceania. This was really just a bad call from Yoshida.

[Jojoya]

Really? I am actually expecting a lot of people to move for the housing alone, and the housing lotto to have multiple bids even in the small plots. I think the wards might fill up fairly quickly

Some will move to get the housing they want. Others will stay on their worlds hoping that others with houses will move so they can get what's vacated.

It doesn't matter how much people say they want something, few are willing to make the change needed to acquire it. It's especially true when they already are part of established social circles.

The only reason I'm moving a couple of my alts (not this character or the rest) is to help support my cousin's FC that decided to move since they're still relatively new to the game and don't have any connections in game outside of their inner circle.

Maybe, but I really don't think the housing crowd is as big as the forums makes it out to be.

Based on lottery entry numbers just before the last of the supply disappeared and people gave up the lottery as hopeless, there seemed to be about 1500-2000 players on most of the NA worlds trying to get a house.

I'd also be surprised if more than about 30% of those players moved to the new worlds to get a house. That would make the housing-centric transfers to Dynamis in the 10-12k range, which seems realistic compared to what happened with Materia but still no where close to the 28,800 houses that will be available.

I feel like SE is going to have to step up its game or you're going to have an OCE situation repeating itself

Congested status says "Hello!" All NA worlds should have been marked Congested since last summer but SE couldn't get more worlds added at that time to handle the overflow.

Now players won't have a choice except to create new characters on the new data center if they want to play on NA. That may get other players to transfer there to play with friends who are just picking up the game.

People did that when OCE came out and the place is still dead in comparison to the other DCs. I remember moving there for housing, getting one without any challenge and then leaving anyway because it was boring.

There will definitely be a wave but anyone who has obligations to stay on their original DC still will (friends, FC, roleplay related jobs, etc.). It will most likely just be a bunch of alts as well rather than anyone's main till the state of the DC is known and whether or not it's viable.

"Dead in comparison" doesn't mean "is dead", though I wonder what happened to all the players that the OCE supporters were certain would materialize on Materia (pun not intended).

That's because contrary to what this forum kept saying, the number of OCE players, let alone those who wanted to migrate, was always very small.
There are more English speaking latin american players than there ever were from oceania. This was really just a bad call from Yoshida.

It wasn't the player group here in the forums that convinced SE. It was the Facebook group that OCE players had formed to lobby for the OCE data center. They had said they knew of friends and others that wouldn't play the game because it lacked an OCE data center.

So did those friends and others still not materialize, were they fewer in number than the Facebook group made it seem, or did SE drop the ball on advertising the addition of the OCE data center in the region? if SE didn't bother to do any serious advertising in the region, then that's on SE's marketing team.

[kangaroospa]

I feel like this thread is missing the fact that there are new players joining everyday and NA is the biggest pop DC in the world. New servers mean there's a better chance new players can join and not have an issue with servers being locked to new characters. It's not about migration its about more space for more new people. The issue with OCE is that all the people who were playing were just on JP. And only a few left for OCE meaning all that's there is the small OCE population and its new players.

[VelKallor]

4. Nah, no one was provoking anyone. The most memorable one off the top of my head was someone not keeping the dragon centered in Laby and got them called a "stupid American doing a stupid NA strat."

Oh , that wasnt the reason. But I will leave you to work that one out.

Think on it a while..it will come to you.

[Shibi]

That's because contrary to what this forum kept saying...

Yoshida made a LOT of bad calls. Housing delayed... putting it in Sydney and not Singapore.... not allowing DC travel to NA.... However, just to clear up, the forum voice asking for the regional servers was pretty much non-existant. That part is made up. Brazil asks for it a lot, the call from ANZ was close to non-existent.

That said, the DC is now quite healthy for something that is still new. Yoshida can still improve it though, but he's stubborn and doesn't listen to the community.

I have no doubts Dynamis will stay healthy and grow too, but it will also stay quite quiet for a very long time. It will also likely have the same detractors, and they are simply never helpful.

[VelKallor]

the call from ANZ was close to non-existent.

..conveniently ignoring the fact there were calls for OCE servers as far back as 2015, are we?

[Mika_Zahard]

If I had to guess, itll be pretty barren. Just gotta look at OCE and how that went. People were asking for it for years and now it's so quiet (apparently) they're struggling to do things due to ridiculous queue times. I dont really see a point in moving world when that's the case, but then again I'm not really bothered about housing

OCE is an entirely different problem due their population not being enough.

A new NA DC opens up a lot of possibilities housing wise.

[Shibi]

..conveniently ignoring the fact there were calls for OCE servers as far back as 2015, are we?

Did you miss this part of the statement? "However, just to clear up, the forum voice asking for the regional servers was pretty much non-existant."

I am an avid OCE player, and love the DC, it's awesome. Yoshi stated he first saw the need when he came to Australia, so I know there were calls. But this made-up-fact about the forums being full of people begging for it is as false as the made-up-fact that our servers are a ghost town. They aren't, as you and I know.