When do you think they'll add cross-region data center travel? OCE is screwed!

[Jeeqbit]

You're also putting a lot of assumptions that new players are going to flock to Dynamis when the vast vast majority of sprouts are alts by other players.

They are currently, but let me put it this way. Why would anyone make a character on Crystal after the DC split where everyone flocked to Aether?

Well people did make characters on Crystal - particularly a lot of WoW refugees did, because I met them constantly there. They just pick a data center at random and whichever world makes sense to them, unless they have a friend telling them which one to pick.

The Aether population was greater and it was obvious a lot of people had friends telling them to pick Aether, but there were those who picked Crystal and it has grown well over time.

I actually remember a comment in NN a few nights ago by someone "Has anyone seen an ACTUAL sprout yet?"

I tried inviting a lot of them without an FC to the Novice Network. A lot of them declined, but some of them didn't. I observe the same behaviour on other data centers, so it's hard to say, but I assumed if they were any higher than 50 they were probably people that transferred.

[DeNada]

They are currently, but let me put it this way. Why would anyone make a character on Crystal after the DC split where everyone flocked to Aether?

Well people did make characters on Crystal - particularly a lot of WoW refugees did, because I met them constantly there. They just pick a data center at random and whichever world makes sense to them, unless they have a friend telling them which one to pick.

The Aether population was greater and it was obvious a lot of people had friends telling them to pick Aether, but there were those who picked Crystal and it has grown well over time.

I tried inviting a lot of them without an FC to the Novice Network. A lot of them declined, but some of them didn't. I observe the same behaviour on other data centers, so it's hard to say, but I assumed if they were any higher than 50 they were probably people that transferred.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Crystal made up of existing worlds when the reshuffle happened?

If so, that's an apples to oranges comparison and should not be used as a reference to predict how Dynamis might turn out.

Instead, a more apt comparison would be to compare to Materia which is a data center comprised of completely new worlds and we all know how that turned out...

[Jeeqbit]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Crystal made up of existing worlds when the reshuffle happened?

Yes, but those worlds were mostly regarded as "dead" by people. The most populated was Balmung. There was also Mateus that was sort of an overflow from Balmung. When I last checked a year ago, Crystal was significantly less populated than Aether and Primal, so Aether got locked forcing people to start on Crystal.

Instead, a more apt comparison would be to compare to Materia which is a data center comprised of completely new worlds and we all know how that turned out...

There is a big difference on Materia which is that it is for OCE and I suspect the amount of people playing from that region is smaller than NA, otherwise they would need 4 Data Centers like NA has.