Why Is Dynamis Dead

[Jojoya]

The DC as a whole lacks anyone trying to do content, even dailies are a hassle to queue for during peak times. It's been a month, and this kinda suuucks

It's been less than 3 weeks. Players have been very involved in decorating their new houses and apartments, which is taking them away from other content they'd normally be doing.

I haven't had any problems with queue times myself. I've been leveling a tank so that might have something to do with it despite the roulette bonus being for DPS about half the time. I also haven't be queuing for max level content yet so I don't know what things look like for Expert roulette or the raids.

I haven't heard any complaints about queue times from anyone else on the data center except regarding PvP (which I don't do).

Attendance for S ranks has been good overall though it's been on the low side for trains and the big FATEs (still enough to kill things, just slow). I imagine Eureka and Bozja are probably dead.

Is there something else you're thinking of that I missed?

You can always data center travel if you're unhappy with activity on Dynamis.

A lot of people are satisfied with Dynamis. They get to have their house while also going back to their home DC to queue with friends. This is what many people wanted to begin with, including Square. Their design is to have one DC function as a hub for content (Aether, Mana) while the others are either social or for your house. We're also in the content lull, which is by design so that you can play other games published by Square Enix. You're not really supposed to be queueing for content right now unless you're progging the tier.

That's not SE's design. That's how players use the data centers.

WOW is about to release a new expansion.

The new server launched at pretty much the same time that pre-patch came out.

WOW (despite what some people think) has a greater population than FF14. it consistently sells 3-million launch day expansions (and has done with everything except Mists). Expect the servers to be even quieter for at least a month shortly.

I doubt there's that much crossover in the games' populations.

It's more than we're running into the normal second half of the patch cycle lull when players start playing less waiting for the next patch to be released.

I was hoping to at least play with a fresh market a bit but the market is completely flat dead as well.
Something I would sell 30+ of on Mateus in a single day before, I've now been unable to sell even "one" on Maduin within 3 weeks.

30 of what though and at what price? Being a fresh data center, what players are looking to buy is different from what is popular on an established data center.

Housing items have been selling like crazy, which was 100% predictable and many prepared for it. They've been making gil. I've made over 80 million myself and I've been more focused on decorating my own house and helping with hunts than selling items.

I've also seen some ridiculously overpriced items on the marketboard. We're not a closed market system. We're competing against other NA worlds. We've got a population that came in expecting to need to use data center travel at times. If someone is listing their item at 1 million gil when it usually sells on other NA worlds for 150k gil, hope they have fun sitting on it for months.