Yeah, I think by this point, we can say that Materia is effectively dead in the waters and only cross DC travel can help alleviate the situation.

With the addition of new housing wards in 6.3, there's not much point in coming over to Materia to get one which is what I did with my alt. I can foresee even more players leaving Materia and what will be left is just the core Oceania population, which is not sufficient to sustain player activity across 5 servers.

Sorry folks, the Oceania dream is dead